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Originally Posted by Danzig

more is better? are you seriously advocating spending more on defense than we do now?

if we were to have a smaller military, not going into iraq would be a reality. but hey, we have all these soldiers, sailors and airmen, so we use them.

have you actually looked to see just how much we spend each year on defense? what portion of the federal budget goes to defense? how our spending matches up to the next nine largest militaries? most of the next nine are our allies. two of the nine are china and russia. russia's spending is equal to france. or to england.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures

i've posted the above before.


note this graph:

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that's our spending compared to the next four largest militaries.

When I said more is better up to a point, that was just a principle. I did not mean that in reference to today's level not being enough. I would let the experts tackle that one.

But I am serious about the 60 years and counting in Korea. What's the end-strategy for that deployment?