The Military-Industrial Complex

I just read this article, describing how the American economy is currently tied to the war in Iraq. It also describes how using this kind of economic theory, called Military Keynesianism, to drive a nation can centralize the power of the president.

It disturbs me that Mr. Bush believes he can arrange for a surplus in 2012 if our current economic state relies on the war machine. Once we pull out of that hellhole, the link between the war and economy may very well be exposed and a recession could hit the United States quite hard.

Even more, I am disappointed that a president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, forms his own agenda and ignores the cries of Congress and the people to change his course of action. The war, like the economy, is tied to Bush's centralization of presidential power. And as of right now, there are no signs of "pulling out" because obivously that would only embolden the terrorists when in fact, ironically, our actions in Iraq may have emboldened them by plunging the country into complete chaos.