Your Must-Do Assignment for This Year, Read This Chart and Pass It On

Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:15  
By Dina Rasor, Truthout | Solutions 

If you are a regular Truthout reader, you probably know this in your gut. However, take the time to look at this chart, examine it carefully and internalize what it means.

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Take a close look at the peaks and see that the first one is the Korean War, the second one is the Vietnam War, the third one is the peak of the long cold war and the final blue peak is ... no, it isn't the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it is what our defense budget grew to because of our national fear after 9/11 ... the cost of these two wars is the looming giant red peak, above and beyond our post-9/11 frenzy. Notice that each one of these last peaks is higher than the height of the cold war, when we were building a nuclear arsenal and all types of cold war planes, ships and tanks to defeat the Soviet Union if they invaded Europe.