[quote=briansd1][quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=walterwhite]Why can’t we turn a decent profit on a war anymore?[/quote]
Scaredy: You’re kidding, right? War is HUGE business and immensely profitable.
And the USA happens to be very good at it.
A Special Forces guy I knew had a business card from his service days that read: Our business is killing and business is good.[/quote]
Profitable for the corporations and the military industrial complex. Even profitable for the fighters who have jobs.
But profitable for the whole country? I don’t think so. Unless the war results in a large market for our products and ideas. WWII was very profitable by that standard.[/quote]
Brian: Do me a favor and walk down to your car. I’m presuming you own a good, reliable car, right? Something fairly new? If your option package contains satellite radio, navigation, or something really whiz-bang like the new thermal imaging found in the Audis, where do you think that technology came from?
These are all products of military R&D that has migrated into the commercial sector. Silicon Valley was built on Department of Defense and DARPA money; shit, huge sums still run through there (though not nearly as much as during the Cold War days).
