The bizarre and self-defeating U.S. fixation on military cures to almost every problem abroad has much to do with its insane gun violence here in the so-called homeland. Americans fantasize that they live in a war zone. Shopping at Walmart armed to the teeth, gassing up the SUV with the AR-15 at the ready, Americans have strange dreams, which they transform into self-fulfilling prophecies, as psychotics, freely able to purchase weapons of war, open fire on schools, nightclubs, banks, and it doesn’t matter how many armed guards patrol the premises. More
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