[G]rowing mass production of new and more affordable methods of warfare won’t please the large arms manufacturers.
If U.S. peacemaking started in earnest under Nixon, it reached a crescendo with Jimmy Carter.
The U.S. is viewed by many as the paragon of democracy, and it has used this belief to interfere in many countries.
The two sides of the Democratic Party, for all that they are genuinely heartily sick of dealing with one another, are not that far apart.
John McCain was a staunch supporter of that military-industrial complex.