The author reports on the benefits derived from your tax dollars supporting just one of the Empire's never-ending wars--the one in Afghanistan, and concludes:
Imperial militaries exist in large part to grab and hold resources vital to the continuance of empires, while their paymasters back home reap benefits. That includes the rest of us, who must balance the security and creature comforts this approach provides against the death and destruction it inevitably entails. And we can’t begin to do the moral calculus until we acknowledge what’s being done in our name around the world, and why.However, I think the author puts too much of the onus of responsibility on the general public. The overwhelming portion of the immorality and the guilt of our nation's wars of aggression must be put squarely on the shoulders of those who run this country--the One Percent. We share in the guilt when we merely look the other way or gullibly accept the propaganda that the media of the One Percent feeds us.
