What audience?  I&#x27;m just some guy complaining about things on the Internet.<p>Rent-seeking behavior seems intrinsic to human society, such that any group of people larger than a certain size will be forced to deal with it in one way or another.<p>At this point, nothing short of a constitutional amendment is likely to put a dent in the military industrial complex.  And that&#x27;s not happening any time soon.<p>Complaining about it helps me to not lose my sanity.  And that&#x27;s good, because without my sanity, I might do something like endorse an armed revolution to reduce the political and economic influence of the military in the U.S.  See, as a sane person, I know that doesn&#x27;t make any sense.  There is a right way and a wrong way to fight fire with fire; that&#x27;s the wrong way.<p>And it gets a dissenting opinion out there, on the off chance that someone might stray far enough from their own echo chamber to see it.