Comments on: Pamela Schwartz http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/04/23/pamela-schwartz/ Interviews of foreign policy experts, writers and activists. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:05:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Purple http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/04/23/pamela-schwartz/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Purple Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:00:34 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=335#comment-781 Ms. Schwartz, I appreciate your emphasis on the horrific military spending, and surely agree that not only is that money wasted, but that it actually causes us to only get more entangled and mired in future horrors. If there was a button I could push to cut the US Government's military spending in half (or even reduce it to ZERO), I'd do it. However, I share Mr. Goyette's skepticism on the efficacy of Government as a whole. I fear that you can't give ANY money to government and not expect them to waste the vast bulk of it on military horrors, any more than you can give money to an addict and expect him not to try to spend it upon drugs. As General Smedley Butler told us decades ago, War is a Racket. Government is too. Mr Goyette, Thank you very much for posting your interviews online, as someone who lives outside your coverage area, I always look for your recordings on antiwar.com Purple Ms. Schwartz, I appreciate your emphasis on the horrific military spending, and surely agree that not only is that money wasted, but that it actually causes us to only get more entangled and mired in future horrors. If there was a button I could push to cut the US Government’s military spending in half (or even reduce it to ZERO), I’d do it.

However, I share Mr. Goyette’s skepticism on the efficacy of Government as a whole. I fear that you can’t give ANY money to government and not expect them to waste the vast bulk of it on military horrors, any more than you can give money to an addict and expect him not to try to spend it upon drugs. As General Smedley Butler told us decades ago, War is a Racket. Government is too.

Mr Goyette, Thank you very much for posting your interviews online, as someone who lives outside your coverage area, I always look for your recordings on antiwar.com

Purple

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