...US foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, is driven not so much by broad national interests as they are by narrow but powerful special interests - interests that seem to prefer war and militarism to peace and international understanding. These are the nefarious interests that are vested in military industries and related "security" businesses, notoriously known as the military-industrial complex. These beneficiaries of war dividends would not be able to justify their lion's share of our tax dollars without "external enemies" or "threats to our national interests."The imperial drive of the Empire is not only driven by the narrow economic interests of the military-industrial complex, but also the whole capitalist enterprise that feeds the One Percent's addiction to profits by securing their access to resources, markets, and cheap labor. Yes, it's profits über alles--über peace, über stable communities, über sustainable economies, über a stable climate.
The military-industrial complex serves as the goon squad for the One Percent. They, like their Mafia counterparts, go around "breaking the legs" of those nations that refuse to cooperate with the criminal operations of the capitalist Empire.
