How The So-Called Clinton Recovery Really Happened

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As for military spending, the US benefitted from that brief synapse in time in between the collapse of the Soviet Union/fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the emergence of another combatant 10 years later whose conflict with the US is almost as costly, and much more diffuse.

This is of course naive, if not disingenuous. It's as if he doesn't recall that our primary military engagement in the last 12 years has been in a country called Iraq. And that conflict did not "emerge" by any stretch of the imagination. It was invented out of whole cloth.

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