Enola Gay's Commander Robert Lewis' 1945 statement, "My God, what have we done?", upon bombing Hiroshima, now applies as we consider current threats to human survival by nuclearism, and through subsequent environmental devastation. 
    Recall Ike's oft quoted, but largely ignored, warning about the military-industrial complex. It has become increasingly clear that our decision makers haave established militarism as the top national prority commanding our nation grossest expenditres, exeemplifiedd by the Cold WAr, and our wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to deaths and injuries among our troops, wars' immense costs have nuked our economy. According t Stephen Schwartz' 20008 report, among underreported "defensse" costs, from 1940  -  1996, the United States spent a minimum of 5.5 trillion on its nuclear weapons program. Also, Everett Thiele wrote, "Millitary Spending: Cost of the Iraq War is but the Tip of the Iceberg. Since 1948, an accumulated defense budget of more than twenty trillion dollars has sunk the US economy. He points out that the war "is harming U.S. taxpayers by saddling them with an enormous debt burden, since war is financed with deficit spending."
    Thiele continues, "....No country could afford this much military spending. It has not only robbed us and all peole of the world of needed healthcare, educational and social programs, but it is reponsible for the impossibly large debts that we in the US and our children are facing.Barring the apocalyple, it will soon reduce the US to second rate power."
     We have experienced many other assaults on our heretofore confortable and confident middle class, including a life stye offering unlimited energy from prehistoric forests and ancient dead creatures. Recently, it has become popular to admit our addiction to oil,coal and natural gas.  The disaster in the Gulf has awakened us to certain realities; we cannot maintain the status quo of cheap and abundant energy. 
     Though many had prophesied this for decades,why have our leaders and the media been so hesitatnt to caution us about this untenable situation? Isn't it clear that there are national and global forces at work making critical decisions without the wisdom to comprehand their conksequences?
      Perhaps we should consider the behavior of corporations and the persons who control them. 
      First consider the media upon which we derive the information which attracts our attention and affects our attitudes, regardless of whether we realize it. In, "Media Monopoly." Ben Bagdikian describes how within a twenty year span, five corporate billionaires have gained control of all of the media that had previoiusly been controlled by fifty corporations. Despite our assuption that we enjoy freedom of speech, what we are fed displays corporate bias, while the media, rightfully a public commons, create major public relations campaigns which manipulate our thinking and behavior. 
     Furthermore, media corporations are in bed with those massive companies that reap obscene profits, the military, health care, oil, energy, food industries, and of course, Wall Street.  Their great influesnce has just been enhanced by the Supreme Court, further magnifying their exercise of"corporate personhood," as documented in Thom Hartmann's, "Unequal Protection, The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights," which dates back to an 1886 allegedly mininterpreted Supreme Court decision. 
    Currrent Minute Men's praising of corporate "free enterprise" veers off course when considering recent history. One outstanding example of many, took place when Vice President Cheney's secret industry dominated cabal wrote and an energy policy for George Bush's administration.
    As Senator Franken noted, "There is such a thing as judicial activism, there is such a thing as legislating fro the bench and it is practiced repeatedly by the Roberts Court, and it has cut in only one direction -- in favor of powerful corporate interests and against the rights of individual Americans."
    Hasn't our government, including all branches and both political parties succumbed to corporte influence? Must we not wrench control away from these megacorporate giants, if we are to end the folly that threatens the survival of America, if not all of earth's inhabitatnts?  Shouldn't we carefully reapply those words of Enola Gay's Commander, "My God, what have we done?" in order to resuscitate our country?  Is there anything short of a constitutional amendment that would abort this Supreme Court enhanced affliction? 
    A growing movement is emerging. Start with Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at http://www.wilpf.org and move on to Amend at  http://movetoamend.org.