US strategic policy is dead-ended: Journalist
American journalist and activist Don Debar believes that the US strategic policy, which is based on militarism, is “dead-ended”.
Debar made the remarks in an interview with Press TV when asked about the US Senate, which passed an annual $612 billion military spending bill on Thursday.
The bill, which the White House has threatened to veto, includes additional war funding for the Defense Department.
Republicans, in a 71-25 vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed the bill, although many Democrats opposed the legislation.
The bill includes an extra $38 billion in funds through the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account, which is the Pentagon's war fund.
Debar said “what they’re seeking to do is to put sort of a harbor, the difference between what the Pentagon wants and what they’re allowed to get under the spending cuts that are being imposed on every other part of the economy -- on pensioners, people on social security, and all of that.”
“They would dump this money into the fund that is supposed to be dedicated to conducting war in part so that if there are any cuts they can make up the difference,” he added.
US strategic policy “leads with the military in awful lot,” he said, adding that “the policy itself is dead-ended; it leads either to a war with Russia and China or to a complete reversal of the current course.”
“To me, the US government is a failed state, really. It is rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic,” he concluded.
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