Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke: The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy

By Chalmers Johnson for Le Monde (via Information Clearing House) The military adventurers in the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups thought that they were the “smartest guys in the room” — the title of Alex Gibney’s prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed