the operations that go on every day it's phenomenal the number of flights to take off from catania air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day one have involved thousands of gallons of jet fuel. repair and maintenance and parts for those aircraft the rationale for these bases is that they're continually practicing and training and using the equipment and and running the personnel through their paces and and feeding them and and so on and that is an incredibly expensive operation this is what. president is in our it was warning against in his farewell address and nine hundred sixty one where he invented the phrase military industrial complex meaning hidden power power that was not really under the supervision of congress that. and that was often out of control represented private interests rather than the national interest i'm sorry to say that we in america did not pay attention to the warning he gave it gave to us and today it's close to out of control. the united states consumes one fourth of the world's oil every day more than any other country fa