We Need a Forever War

i think sometimes people are atempted to give a materialist analysis of these kinds of conflicts and say that whet, the real reason is money. But a lot of the real impetus for it was, i think, actioll, considerably more ideological cause. If you look at the political right, the things they were concerned about wasn't monetary wealth. It was the sense that if we do not have a war somewhere, somehow, then what's going to set in is decline,. With decline, wi'll emerge rivals to s american military hibjeminy round the globe. And we can't have that, which is why we need something like a forever war in order