https://www.fff.org/2022/08/22/americas-perpetual-foreign-po…
Ever since the federal government was converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state after World War II, America has lived under a system of ongoing, never-ending, perpetual foreign-policy crises. That’s not a coincidence. The national-security establishment — i.e. the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — need such crises to justify their continued existence and their ever-growing taxpayer-funded largess.
An interesting aspect of this phenomenon is that oftentimes the crises are ginned up by the national-security establishment itself.
Iraq & Libya come instantly to my mind. What about you?