Defense Spending
Here we go again!
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger releases his department’s sixth annual edition of “Soviet Military Power” and announces: “We must realize that we are competing with a dynamic, and an expanding, Soviet military threat.”
Whenever the Soviet Union spends money on its military the Reagan people call it a “threat.” When we spend money on our military, the same people call it “defense.” This charade has been carried on by the Reagan Administration until we have been bamboozled into squandering two-thirds of the national revenue on the military.
It is not as though we had not been warned. Thirty-five years ago General of the Army Douglas MacArthur said it for all to see and understand: “It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms industry which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”
When will we learn?
DAVID KINKEAD
Forestville
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