This article describes how The US administration uses budgets to entrench the ‘war on terror’ into the fabric of American life.
An all-consuming ‘war on terror’
…The same imperative – translate your agenda into war on terror requirements or be starved of funds – and its spiraling consequences surged across the government, affecting virtually all agencies. Bureaucrats unable to describe their activities in “war on terror” terms were virtually disqualified from budget increases and probably doomed to cuts. With billions of dollars a year in state and local funding, the Department of Homeland Security devised a list of 15 National Planning Scenarios to help guide its allocations. To qualify for Homeland Security funding, state and local governments had to describe how they would use allocated funds to meet one of those chosen scenarios…