Below is a very different look at war, its causes and who profits. It is a critical discussion noting that in the United States, “What drives the spending that Eisenhower warned would drive the wars? Profits, legalized bribery, and a culture that searches for the causes of war primarily among the 95 percent of humanity that invests dramatically less in war-making than the United States does.” The article opens attacking “an article (by Paul Krugman) for one of the most effective war promoting institutions in the world, the New York Times, on Sunday talking aloud about why in the world wars are still waged.”
The article hopes to influence the way people view dealing with international crises “people who suppose that crises require bombs to solve them — and most of those people, by some coincidence, seem to live in the United States.” There are actually other alternatives.