content: Yep, so companies that make bullets and bombs and rockets and military vehicles and jet planes and digital spying equipment can make more money selling them to both sides and so the politicians that those companies "lobby" can get a little extra money, and so the folks at the pentagon can keep demanding a bigger cut of the budget because "we're at war." There are a lot of people that make less money if war stops and if we stop needing the instruments of war.  Also there are folks in the military and intelligence community whose jobs become superfluous in peacetime. These people don't want peace and they have enough money and influence to shape policy in Washington.