Ever wonder who the people are in the triumvirate and among its staunchest supporters? Not one of them was born with a weaponeer's habits in place. What was their upbringing, their education, their socialization? What are their personalities? What kind of families do they have? Do they interrupt their unholy work to attend places of worship? What do they think about their work and careers? Do they rely on moral rationalizations to justify their work or do they take it as a matter of fact or with a sense of patriotic duty and pride?
The answers to such questions are not meant to be fodder for social gossip. Answering the questions would help reformers targeting the triumvirate to better understand it not in the abstract or institutionally but in the flesh of real people. Without people in them, institutions, systems, and corporations are abstractions. A cursory search of the internet (a dozen pages) surprisingly found no sociological and psychological studies of what kinds of people inhabit this triumvirate and are among its staunchest supporters. If no such studies exist, it is a study begging to be done.
Other than the US warrior in chief, the top Pentagon and military brass, members of Congress who advance the war agenda, and individuals doing the killing, this writer isn't about to consider all of the rest of "those people" as murderers. They aren't monsters, but they are caught up in a monstrous situation that depends partly on them to continue existing.
In closing
Any way we look at it, the military-national security, industrial, political triumvirate is indeed a monster too destructive, deadly and costly to keep on tolerating. Writing about it has been a dispiriting experience and a relief to finish. This writer is not quite sure how he will experience the writing of the rest of this trilogy other than to continue having the feelings of frustration and futility he already has because it will take major surgery to remove all of this triumvirate's cancerous cells from the sinews of every one of "our" major American institutions and of society itself.
Sources
Note: An excellent, ongoing chronicling of imperialistic,
militaristic
1. From wikipedia 11/22/12.Some companies are subsidiaries of others. A few are located in other countries. Corporations with an asterisk are among the top 25 defense contractors.
2. From Wikipedia.
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