Let's Rid America of Veterans

by Jacob G. Hornberger
Nov. 11, 2014

The reason there is a large contingent of veterans in the United States is twofold: (1) because of the many foreign wars waged by the U.S. government in this century and the last and (2) the radical restructuring of America's governmental system into a national-security state, one that consists of an enormous permanent standing army, a vast empire of overseas and domestic military bases, a military-industrial complex, a CIA, and a NSA.

Our 19th-century American ancestors didn't have a Veteran's Day. That's because they didn't have many veterans to honor. That's because they didn't have an enormous standing army, an overseas military empire, and a national-security state, thousands of domestic military bases, a vast military-industrial complex, a CIA, and a NSA. That's because of the deep antipathy that America's Founding Fathers and 19th-century Americans had toward that type of governmental structure and to involving the United States in foreign wars.

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