<i>Government has gotten us all involved in an endless war of attrition in which the average person has almost nothing to gain and everything to lose.</i><p>After WWII, the US government and foreign policy got reconfigured in such a way as to assure the United States could defend itself from a nuclear superpower and to have access to the resources to re-fight World War II.<p>The original goal in all of the above was to keep the population safe. Things have evolved a little since then, however.