Obama major supporter of US war machine: Analyst
US President Barack Obama is one of the leading proponents of the country’s military interventions and arms industry because he lacks any morals or principles, an American geopolitical analyst says.
“Obama is a major supporter of the war machine, he is a supporter of the military-industrial complex, he’s a supporter of defense contractors,” said Eric Draitser, the founder of Stopimperialism.com.
“He’s a supporter of the billions upon billions upon billions of dollars that the US government pours into contracts for weapons manufacturing, for supplying military arms and funding all over the world,” Draitser told Press TV on Friday.
On Thursday, Obama vetoed a massive $612 billion military policy bill because of the way it increases the military budget and war spending while not increasing funding for domestic programs.
"I'm going to be sending it back to Congress and my message to them is very simple: 'Let's do this right,'" Obama told reporters at the White House.
"We're in the midst of budget discussions. Let's have a budget that properly funds our national security as well as economic security," he said.
Obama had reportedly threatened to reject the bill because it allocates $38 billion into a war fund not subject to budget caps, arguing that it skirts spending caps put in place by the 2011 Budget Control Act.
Obama also rejected provisions in the bill that would make it more difficult for him to close the notorious US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The action represents the first time Obama has made good on a threat to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) because in past years he thought the veto would be overridden.
However, Draitser argued that Obama’s veto of the bill was not based on a moral position, but on a partisan position.
“Obama’s not taking a principled position; Obama’s not taking a moral position; if anything after eight years it should be very clear [that] he has no principles and he has no morals,” he said.
The United States spends more on its military than any other nation in the world. The US spent $610 billion on defense in 2014, followed by China with $216 billion and Russia with $84.5 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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