Bev and Jerry - Correct. Fascism is an alliance between big business and the military, using unscrupulous (or frightened) politicans to carry out policy deemed beneficial for big business and the military. Fascism is powered by the fear of enemies, external and internal, and never ceases searching for a new enemy to inspire public paranioa. If a real enemy does not exist, an unreal one must be found or manufactured. The search for unreal enemies inevitably produces large numbers of very real enemies. The result is war. War is very good for big business, except in the case where one's country is invaded and loses the war. A power as great as the USA figures that this is an unlikely eventuality...which is true. Therefore, it is free to go about the World and invade other places...same as the Russians do from time to time here and there in their smaller sphere of influence. Russia is also essentially fascist, and so is China.