You reap what you sow...

It's been said a thousand times before, in hundreds of ways, but as a country, we seem to be blind to this fact. If I have a field, and I spend a few billion $$$ on farm machinery, seeds, fertilizers and pesticides (organic), I'm probably going to grow some crops sometime. Why else buy all the stuff, right? So, substitute a few billion or trillion $$$ on bombs, tanks, planes, depleted uranium, etc, and the only obvious outcome is that I'm going to make war sometime. Truman warned, beware the military-industrial complex. War is a self-fulfilling prophesy, in that if you keep it onhand as your strongest bargaining tool, with more invested in weaponry than in any other options, weapons are your tools of choice when the time comes to resolve a conflict. I just can't stand to hear someone trying to make some 'sanctity of life' argument against funding stem cell research while voting to increase spending on war in the next breath. What exactly do they think those depleted uranium bullets and cluster bombs are being bought for???