Sounds like every policy of the war on terror.

How else are we supposed to give nearly half of the discretionary spending to defense contractors? We can't just make a big pile of all the bombs, that would be dangerous. Dropping them on poor people ensures they are only dangerous for a brief amount of time, with minimal risk to the ruling class.

And it costs innocent people their lives or makes it at least very miserable. Yeah, what to spend billions for...

The "anti war" president.

"Is this just an excuse to funnel public money into private military contracts?"

"Ye man"