Originally Posted by Pogo

Keynes wrote a pamphlet entitled How To Pay For The War. Perhaps you should read it.

What we see in hindsight is that the US gov't was caught flatfooted by the collapse of the Soviet Union and had to scramble to replace it with the Columbian drug cartels, and while we were busy looting Russia for all we could get our greedy paws on, the leadership vacuum was filled by crime syndicates, which was not a good thing, them having large stockpiles of WMD and all.