That statement is the beginning and the end of this discussion. You've all watched Why We Fight, you've all read Chomsky, you've all been into left wing politics, and thus you all know that the US military industrial complex will not be stopped by anything until it burns itself out.

It's been talked about here before: the emergence of the US as the sole world superpower has shifted the entire west to the right politically. In the US, that means someone like Bush gets elected. If it wasn't him, it was going to be someone else. The democrats understood this shift to the right, of course it has led them to choke themselves to death. They do not provide the desperately needed counterweight to the republican party. The world is politically unbalanced and only the US (inevitably) undoing itself will restore some sort of balance. It will happen, but it will be ugly and painful for everyone. I see no other way. Whether it's Iran, China, or whoever, it's going to happen, and it has been inevitable since the early 1950's.

you are the media you consume.