Baithak World Jun 06: Bad Behaviour, Military Spending, News & Views, Cartoon, Videos, RealNews

It was always so with him. Now, sadly, it seems so with her. With Bill and Hillary, it's all about the Clintons. On the most historic of nights, when the world watched in amazement as America provided stunning proof of its promise of endless possibilities, she could not bring herself to concede the contest, or the spotlight, to Barack Obama. If she could not win the Democratic presidential nomination, she would not let him have it cleanly either. Shocked at trailing and then losing to Obama, the Clintons have behaved incredibly badly. Bad Clinton behaviour without end Haroon Siddiqui

What should be the most important issue in this election is one that is rarely, if ever, addressed: Why is U.S. military spending at the highest point, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than at any time since the end of World War II? Why, without a sophisticated military opponent in sight, is the United States spending trillions of dollars on the development of high-tech weapons systems that lost their purpose with the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago? You wouldn't know it from the most-exhausting-ever presidential primary campaigns, but the 2009 defense budget commits the United States to spending more (again, in real dollars) to defeat a ragtag band of terrorists than it spent at the height of the Cold War fighting the Soviet superpower and what we alleged were its surrogates in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Indefensible spending

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Illustration by Kevin Kallaugher

Paul Jay presents RealNews

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