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The US never had a large peacetime army until after WWII when it was never disbanded as it normally would have been. Instead the military industrial complex sold the people on fear of the boogeyman and used that fear to assure its continued existence and profitability.
After the Soviet Union broke up they needed to sell us a new boogeyman, radical Islam and the biggest fraud of all time, Al Qaeda.
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After WWII, the US became a Superpower. And let's face it, the Military Industrial Complex was in full gear. Fear has always been used to keep people in line. From being threatened with ex communication by the Church during the dark ages, to getting groped by TSA at the airports today. I don't care to have our service members fighting in the Middle East, but I am also pragmatic enough to know that if they didn't, our way of life would end.