"Ike was right all along: The danger of the military-industrial complex"

Small excerpt for analysis and commentary,
"Adjusted for inflation, US national security spending has more than doubled since Eisenhower left office. Year after year, the defence budget seems to rise – irrespective of whether the country is actually fighting major wars, regardless of the fact that the Soviet Union, the country's former global adversary, has ceased to be, and no matter which party controls the White House and Congress."

Thus the importance of 9/11 and the creation of the new enemy.