the military industrial complex not only controls our government lock, stock, and barrel, but they control our culture.
it is absolutely ridiculous to think that there’s a threat to us. there is, for terror. now, that’s a whole other problem. and we bring that terror onto ourselves by the way we conduct ourselves around the world. here, just look at the issue of sanctions. who the hell are we to sanction anybody? sanctions — like what we’re doing right now in venezuela — those sanctions are going to cost tens of thousands of deaths primarily children, i might say. and so we do this wantonly and with a level of arrogance. my god, where’s the sense of morality in our leadership today and in the past?

mike gravel