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The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex

Point is, for all that spending, it is more luck and happenstance than anything else that we have not witnessed another terrorist attack in the US. Throughout the Cold War, and even now, the Russians were careful enough to calibrate their actions precisely to keep below the threshold that would have led to massive retaliation, so all the tools/toys at our disposal were quite pointless.

How exactly did the investment in our nuclear submarine and carrier fleet prevent any of the attacks culminating in 9/11? And yet we are still building more of them, for instance the "George H.W. Bush". Funny, huh? A strong defense is vital, and the technology geek in me marvels at some of this stuff as much anybody, but even now, a single kayak paddling over from Canada could pack enough biological agent to wipe out Detroit. We're lucky any would-be terrorists aren't that bright after all.