By arming local police departments with military grade equipment, domestic policing has come to resemble a combat operation with citizens as the enemy.
Republicans are finally conceding that defense cuts are needed. Though it's not just budget priorities that need to be reevaluated, but our global priorities.
Kevin Young, Foreign Policy in Focus. January 7, 2011.
A few drug lords, politicians, and corporate profiteers benefit, but most of the population suffers from increased poverty, migration, drug production, street crime, and violence.
