A deadly monster: Part 1. An overview of the military-national security, industrial, political triumvirate

This triumvirate needs and gets real and professed enemies because 1) it needs ever expanding markets and resources around the globe, 2) its imperialistic militarism is bound to create enemies, 3) like Orwell's Oceania, the triumvirate needs to justify the bloated defense budget, 4) war making is far more profitable and career enhancing for the triumvirate than peace making, 5) having enemies not only distracts the home crowd from domestic woes but is a good excuse for putting the boot down on the dissenting ones among the crowd, 6) it's an uncontrollable addictive habit, and 7) the triumvirate is led by aggressive males.  Let's call them "the seven nasty habits of successful triumvirate men."

Standbys by the millions

There were no standbys during the Vietnam War. There were millions of "stand up" protestors not only because the war was senseless but because America's youth were being forced to fight and die in it. Afterwards, the triumvirate got smart and eliminated the draft. Ever since there have been pitifully few stand ups and millions upon millions of standbys loosely called the "silent majority."

They stand by for one or more of several reasons. No draft. Few loved ones killed or maimed. Jingoistic patriotism. An inconvenient truth denied. Accustomed to war and/or numbed from constant exposure to it. Feelings of helplessness. Overly occupied and exhausted by scratching out a living. Duped by the triumvirate. War accepted, even expected as a normal routine of life's violence. 

Legalized murder and lesser wrongdoing

Wrongdoing is any action that causes some degree of harm, whether physical, financial and/or psychological in nature. There's legal wrongdoing and then there's illegal wrongdoing. Most of this triumvirate's wrongdoing is legal simply because the government treats it as legal.

The triumvirate's legalized murder

Murder is any action intended to cause death. Surrogate murder is murder someone has someone else commit. Murder is a crime. That is all that really needs to be said other than to add that this triumvirate obviously doesn't see its military killings as murder, surrogate murder or as a crime. Moreover, this triumvirate holds itself to be immune from international law, the International Criminal Court (the U.S. refuses to be a member of it), the Nuremberg principles or any of the rest of the coda and courts dealing with murderous nations.

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