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<h1><small><small>Is America on the path to 'permanent war'? </small></small></h1>
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href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/23/war.afghan/index.html">http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/23/war.afghan/index.html</a><br>
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"...John Cioffi, a political science professor at University of
California, Riverside, says the nation's "increasingly unhinged
ideological politics" makes it difficult for the country to extract
itself from battles in Afghanistan, Iraq and Central Asia. <u>"The
U.S. is not on the path to permanent war; it is in the midst of a
permanent war,"</u> Cioffi says. Permanent war is made possible by
massive defense spending that has been viewed as untouchable. But that
may change with the recent financial crisis and the decline of the
nation's industry, Cioffi says. More ordinary Americans might conclude
that they can't have a vibrant domestic economy and unquestioned
military spending, Cioffi says. <br>
<i>"All this points to a time in the future when the government will no
longer have the resources or popular support to maintain what amounts
to an imperial military presence around the world</i>," he says.<br>
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