title as being the world's biggest military spender now with me to talk about the implications is david swanson author activist and author of several books including this one here war is a lie david thank you so much for being here it's great to have you back on the program now. i do want to talk about these numbers here i mean it you know we're not in a cold war anymore there isn't a single nation out there that poses a severe military threat to us i mean our closest rival china we spend six much as time as that as much of that country on our military budget so what do you think accounts for this discrepancy. yes the united states could cut eighty five percent of its military budget and still have the biggest one in the world which ought to be enough and any effect would be enough for most americans but we don't control our government the military industrial congress nor complex does here we are one hundred fifty years to the day since the civil war began and arguably this military industrial complex began that had reached dramatic proportions when eisenhower was president and has gone beyond

joining me for more is david swanson he is author of the book right here war it's a lie they say right there on your screen david you know i want to ask you this this use of drones that we now know is going to be going on in libya what do you think the toll is going to be of earth or the think that we have been drones have a success of strategic kills the success rate of just two percent since two thousand and four and pockets don what is their success going to be on libya i know no reason to think it will be higher of the twenty five people killed in pakistan today are known to have included children we're talking about of it spends months meeting face to face with chalk level taliban officials who turn out not to have anything to do with the taliban and we're supposed to believe that a guy at a desk in was made just can't identify who's under a roof in libya or pakistan or anywhere else in the united nations denounces this is the illegal and here it's been used as part of a mission supposedly justify justified by the department of justice in washington as help holding the credibility

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