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Re:NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders by adventured on Friday October 25, 2013 @05:32AM (#6610582)
The military industrial complex is the biggest pile of assignable loot in world history.

$5+ trillion over the last decade alone. Far more if you count everything connected to it.

They knew the wars couldn't go on perpetually forever, and they'll be damned if they're going to give up all that money. One way to dictate that is through control of the political process.

Re:NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders by riffraff on Friday October 25, 2013 @12:57PM (#6612793)
"They knew the wars couldn't go on perpetually forever" is very optimistic. Europe hadn't had a large scale war for decades before WW1.