The U.S. has been at war with Iraq for twenty-four years.

[JackRiddler]

29. Support for Israel has a lot to do with oil...

and with the geostrategy of dominance, which is the real ideological construct within which "oil" and "Israel" can both be fit. It's about a vision for the region and the world, one backed by multiple interests.

The MIC is the biggest thing of all, as the industry executing it. It's not really "runaway," it's just acting as industries must under capitalism, grow or decline, eat or be eaten. The problem is the degree to which people accept its most fundamental premises: 1) it exists to defend nation against threat, and in its actions actually does so, and to do so must be allowed the resources and authority; 2) it's good to make money doing that as an industry.