And so what are the tradeoffs when we eat up the force-feeding of fear and hate?  Well, somebody has to pay to keep the upper One-Percent rich while we spend so much of our remaining wealth to maim and kill with our "defense" rather than to build and heal. And so far it is another group in the U.S. of about one percent that pays more than a dollar cost, although the burden is spread much wider and heavier in the countries where we use our lethal toys.

http://warisacrime.org/content/got-his-gun-lost-his-legs-arms-and-penis

One wounded warrior tells Jones he loves war and longs to get back into it.  "Blowin' shit up. It's fucking fun. I fuckin' love it."  She replies, "I believe you really mean that," and he says, "No shit.  I'm trying to educate you."  But an older Army officer has a different view: "I've been in the army 26 years," he says, "and I can tell you it's a con."  War, he believes in rather Smedley Butlerish fashion, is a way to make a small number of people "monufuckinmentally rich."  He says his two sons will not serve in the military.  "Before that happens I'll shoot them myself."  Why?  "War is absurd," he says.  "Boys don't know any better.  But for a grown man to be trapped in stupid wars -- it's embarrassing, it's humiliating, it's absurd."

It would be one thing if events which create these views were just sad history, but it is ongoing as we march down the yellow-ribbon road to monetary and moral bankruptcy. I think it's something to vote about.