What better time to examine our policies than at the change of figure heads. Unaccountability and denial in the face of crisis is the formula for disaster. Despite all the assurances we are facing financial and environmental collapse. Militarism is at the root of this crisis. 

The article states the US military is the largest single organization on the planet. It is also the largest consumer of fossil fuels and the single greatest polluter. The fate of people in resource rich countries show us what happens when resource extractors fixate on what you got and they want. If you dare to resist the plunder you face either military or police violence. Look t the pictures from Standing Rock and see how peaceful protest is handled.  Who does it look like the militarized police and their mercenaries are defending? Not the people who pay the taxes that give them a wage. They are defending those who rip the guts out of the planet to poison the air for profit.