The military-industrial complex has done very well, thank you!
Wasted tax payer money and maimed and dead Americans are just collateral damage.
It's like the opioid drug manufacturers but with a longer history.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov