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Most Americans are so enamored with the spit and polish of militaristic culture they cannot think critically beyond- STFU if you dare question/attack ANYTHING pertaining to the glorious, uniformed branches that deplete this and every country's treasure into insolvency.-- behindthecurtain
The link leads to a story about a Gallup poll taken in 2007 wherein most Americans polled said that we are spending too much on military. That number is growing in spite of Congress, the administration and the very disgraced media we are commenting on in this thread.
What makes this result especially surprising is that few leaders in Congress and no one in the administration today argues that the United States can or should reduce military spending. Quite the contrary: leaders of both parties seem eager to add to the Pentagon's coffers, even as public anti-war sentiment builds. And Congress is not the only institution that appears insensitive to the shift in public opinion. The Gallup survey also drew little attention from the news media. Indeed, a Lexis-Nexis database search shows almost no coverage of the poll, which was released on 02 March 2007.
http://www.comw.org/pda/0703bm41.html
