When it comes to war (and peace), we live in a world of American Newspeak in which alternatives to a state of war are not only ever more unacceptable, but ever harder to imagine. War is now our permanent situation.

It lacks, for instance, "victory." But achieving victory no longer seems to matter. War American-style is now conceptually unending, as are preparations for it. In a sense, the ongoing war system can't absorb victory. Any such endpoint might indeed prove to be a kind of defeat.

Similarly drained of its traditional meaning has been the word "security". If we ever decided we were either secure enough, or more willing to live without the unreachable idea of total security, the American way of war and the national security state would lose much of their meaning. In other words, in our world, security is insecurity.

And peace itself? Simply put, there's no money in it.

America's true religion and addiction, is force. Americans are --always--marching as to war.

Gorbachev, I think referred to America in a similar way. That may not have been the article which said it was time for a cleansing of America through an uprising from the base.
When I read Cheney's background, I figured that Gorbachev was right and that the neo-conservatives are already revolting.

I figured that Gorbachev was right and that the neo-conservatives are already revolting.

Read it again.

Anyway, if you believe slavery is wrong, don't agree with the Communist, Nazi, and radical Islamic leaders that have murdered millions of people, then yes, America is hooked on war.