Military Escalation: Bush Can't Kick the Habit

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. Posted December 21, 2006.

The Bush Administration is hooked on the drug of military might, with Gates calling for sending more troops to a war we can't win.

Here we go again: A new secretary of defense and yet another call for ending the war in Iraq by escalating it. What are they smoking in the Bush White House?

Even as government statistics now show marijuana is America's No. 1 cash crop, it is important to remember that militarism is the most dangerous drug threatening our sanity. Yet even formerly sober folks -- first Colin Powell and now new Secretary of Defense Robert Gates -- get a contact high from cozying up to the walking hallucinogen that is our president.