{"id":521,"date":"2011-01-27T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2011\/01\/what-im-reading-guns-vs-good-works.html"},"modified":"2011-01-27T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T09:10:08","slug":"what-im-reading-guns-vs-good-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2011\/01\/what-im-reading-guns-vs-good-works.html","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: Guns vs. Good Works, Sex Trafficking and the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this month&#8217;s Atlantic, Andrew Bacevich writes about the military-industrial complex in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/01\/the-tyranny-of-defense-inc\/8342\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tyranny of Defense, Inc.<\/a>&#8221; Becevich writes, &#8220;By diverting social capital from productive to destructive purposes, war and the preparation for war deplete, rather than enhance a nations strength.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He quotes a speech by President Eisenhower:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.&#8221; Any nation that pours its treasure into the purchase of armaments is spending more than mere money. &#8220;It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Katelyn Beatty reports on efforts to combat sex trafficking at the Superbowl: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2011\/01\/christians_launch_antitraffick.html\">Christians Launch Anti-Slavery Effort for Super Bowl XLV<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this month&#8217;s Atlantic, Andrew Bacevich writes about the military-industrial complex in &#8220;The Tyranny of Defense, Inc.&#8221; Becevich writes, &#8220;By diverting social capital from productive to destructive purposes, war and the preparation for war deplete, rather than enhance a nations strength.&#8221; He quotes a speech by President Eisenhower: &#8220;Every gun that is made, every warship&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-what-im-reading"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What I&#039;m Reading: Guns vs. Good Works, Sex Trafficking and the Super Bowl - Thin Places<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2011\/01\/what-im-reading-guns-vs-good-works.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What I&#039;m Reading: Guns vs. Good Works, Sex Trafficking and the Super Bowl - Thin Places\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this month&#8217;s Atlantic, Andrew Bacevich writes about the military-industrial complex in &#8220;The Tyranny of Defense, Inc.&#8221; 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