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Entry: Militarism and Conservatism: Can this Marriage be Saved? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/militarism_and_conservatism_can_this_marriage_be_saved#18087 Post contents: This may superfluous, but isn’t the economic component of militarism a critical one when considering conservative attraction to militarism? Secretary of State James Baker’s blunt/cynical response that Gulf War I was “about jobs” revealed a lot about the heart and soul of American conservatives circa 1991, I think. At that time, the diminishment of the Cold War was already affecting the domestic economy. It had, after all, afforded a vast boon to the war industries – to the point where soldier and conservative Dwight Eisenhower warned in his valedictory against its alarming pervasiveness. Postwar war materiel production affected all industries - and the stock porfolios of their investors. Many voices are cajoling us to go forth and seek foreign dragons to slay, but the attraction of (short-term) wealth is a seductive and deceitful siren for far too many on the “right.” Sent at: 2008 09 06