Re: There is nothing new under the sun
"Brilliant analysis, except for one minor problem: businesses make much more money in peacetime than wartime..."
That might be true, if it were possible to say at any given time whether we are at peace or at war. A state of uncertainty has set in, in which Western nations behave at home as if they were at peace, and abroad as if they were at war. Then they get violently indignant if any microscopic fragment of the wars they have started find their way back to their countries. Since 1945 the USA has not declared war once, yet it has violently attacked dozens of countries and killed millions of people - probably over 10 million.
This is the ideal condition that American arms manufacturers, in particular, have attained. We are constantly bombarded with dreadful warnings so that we will willingly see our taxes paid to the "defence contractors" for ships, tanks, missiles and aircraft that are then used to kill people overseas - safely out of sight and hearing (we hope). If you will look at the published accounts of American (and British) arms manufacturers since 1990, I don't think you will find that their profits have shrunk noticeably with the ending of the Cold War.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
