PX shopping privileges buy the silence and complicity of foreign officials

Evidence

Overseas, Pincus saw that the military isn’t the only one to benefit from the PXs. The Air Force was flying its jets directly over the Spanish capital, Madrid, but they got away with it because high-ranking Spanish officers were allowed to use the PX and the Officers Club. State Department Foreign Service officers shop at the PXs, too, and, Pincus said, it “corrupts them” just as it does local leaders. For many, the PX becomes another reason not to look critically at the need for a base. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 786

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the sacrifice article’s theme of how perks and privileges quietly bind people into complicity — though topically this is more about American institutional corruption.