Originally Posted by
atakacs
All depends what your metrics are.
I'd say defense complex did pretty well over the past decades. And they slaughtered enough innocents to keep a healthy hatered of the US.
Exactly, people used to admire the US from afar, now it is hated from Kabul to Caracas. All this while saddling the US with massive debt.
Who persuaded the Pentagon to adopt the USSR playbook after it had so signally failed, that is the question.