We have the best armed forces in the world. And we better have since we make up 40 percent of all the military spending in the world and it takes up 1/5 of our budget, and what do we get for it? No really what? I think most everybody will agree that we came out of Iraq and Vietnam with a worse situation than when we went in. We would have been a lot better off if we had had a lousy army and hadn't gone in.
So that's basically how I feel about the armed forces, we spend a whole lot of money on them and in general we get into more trouble with them then we ever get any good out of them.
.Take a hornet's nest like Syria, everybody else who doesn't have a piece of the action is staying far away, and yet many of our politicians are urging us to dip our toes in there. If we were Canada, which I assume has a modest army, nobody would be urging us to get in.
All this moaning and groaning about the national debt, and how it is going to ruin us as a nation, and all we have to do is cut the military in half, and I haven't done the math, but I'm pretty sure that would be close to taking care of the debt, and I don't see anybody rushing in to conquer us.
Maybe that's a little simplistic, but my main point is we get very little of value for the nation from our huge army, and it is very expensive.
I think I agree with you on keeping our armies close to the vest, but then with a smaller mission, and because the cost of an army at rest is much less than an army at war, I think we could bring our spending down to the levels of comparable countries, and spend that money on feeding and educating our children which I believe will make us a stronger country than any amount of military hardware or poor saps doing multiple tours.
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