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Sunday 15 February 2009

Our most certain military threats come from weather chaos, oil dependence, the disruption of food supplies, water scarcity, the social stress of community disintegration and extreme inequality, catastrophic health care costs, and financial collapse. Our primary national security commitment has been to maintain an outsized military establishment, to engage in pointless foreign wars, and to construct new prisons — all of which in the bigger picture make us less secure. We, the United States, account for roughly half of the world’s military expenditures and devote more than half of our federal government’s discretionary budget to maintaining our military establishment — to the neglect of education, health, infrastructure, environmental, and other needs. Yet our primary military threats are from a handful of terrorists armed with little more than a willingness to die for their cause. David Korten

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