The Military State – USA Military Spending 40% of World Total
A great Christian political activist by the name of Jim Wallis once said, “a budget is a moral document.” In light of this common sensical concept the USA has a deeply difficult question on their hands: to make a nation of peace, humanitarianism, and love with a strong, educated, healthy country of international individuals or one of insatiable militarism, imperial foreign policy, and fear tactics. The militarism poisons the officer, the family, the individual, and the society that supports it with hatred, fueled by a crass nationalism, funded by profiteering “private security” companies, and arms dealers (the very embodiment of the word “rapacious”). The victim (the opponent, “enemy” or civilians) decimated, dehumanized, denigrated with nowhere to be free to live in peace, only in constant fear.
This reality is on my mind constantly. As I seek answers to my great moral questions and concerns of a quickly maturing adult desiring to settle down in the next decade, I cannot avoid the thought that this is a moral ill that Americans, especially Christian ones should scrutinize.
Here is the infographic
