Lies, Exaggeration Fail to Justify Massive $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget

Interview with Melvin Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, professor of government at Johns Hopkins University and a former CIA analyst, conducted by Scott Harris.Melvin Goodman, whose latest book is titled, American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump, talks about his recent Counterpunch.org commentary, “The Sordid Politics of Defense Spending” and “Donald Trump: Killer of Arms Control and Disarmament,” regarding Trump’s requested increase of $1.5 trillion in defense spending justified by a massive exaggeration of national security challenges.