No, it is, in fact, an illness.
It is a sickness that falls upon almost all empires, this excess of military might and need to rule the universe by small people.
It was Bush/Cheney and their criminal shock and awe. It will be someone else along the line when the military industrial complex needs a major war. It infested Greece, and Rome, and Berlin, and Moscow, and Washington. 
A country that could elect Trump could do absolutely anything of an insane nature.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon