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William Astore
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William Astore is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and history professor who blogs at Bracing Views .
It’s time to defund the military-industrial complex and the police, and to rethink how to deal with conflict without turning every response into an endless war.
How stupid have we been to celebrate cops as heroes, just as we’ve been foolishly doing for so long with the US military?
If ever there was a time to reduce our massive and unnecessary military spending, this is it.
We are reminded of our endless wars only when the government wants to invoke patriotism without criticism.
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Despite a woeful 75-year military record, the Pentagon’s coffers are overflowing with taxpayer dollars.
Our endless wars are taking countless innocent lives and destroying the planet itself.
It’s time to put an end to America’s lust for war.
As attitudes toward war grow dangerously worshipful in the US, quitting our endless wars becomes all the more difficult.
The US military-industrial complex has been swindling Americans for decades.
The senior officials responsible for our military failures are guiding us to more of the same.
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