World War 2 showed what would become the Military Industrial Legislative Complex how profitable their complex could be. The issue was that they needed a relatively low key but perpetual threat with which to justify their existence. The first enemy that was chosen was the Soviet Union, which actually aided the Soviet Union as Kennan concluded in the Long Telegram that they needed an external enemy to maintain control over the population, and it lasted for several decades. However, economics finally caught up with the USSR and we had a decade with no foreign enemy. Alas, along comes an ideology that we can wage perpetual war because every time we "fight" the war on terrorism we create the next generation of terrorists. The War on Terror was never meant to be won just fought and fought some more and then fought again.
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