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Truthdig: A Submarine to Fight al-Qaida’s Navy

....In the horror of that moment (9-11), the floodgates were lifted and the peace dividend promised with the end of the Cold War was washed away by a doubling of spending on ultra-complex military equipment originally designed to defeat a Soviet enemy that no longer exists, equipment that has no plausible connection with fighting stateless terrorists. Example: the $81-billion submarine pushed by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, presumably to fight al-Qaida’s navy.

Why does America think it can right itself by continuously increasing its military spending.