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Originally Posted by gimpy117
I'd love to see the DOD budget slashed. Our "national defense" has become something totally different, and seems to be more of a program to make sure we can throw our weight around around the globe. I think thats wrong. Defense should be just that, defense. I mean good lord, the JSF is asking for 11 BILLION dollars this year
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I agree (and I am a member of the military industrial complex). Sometimes, the best defense may be just a good defense.
Not counting Iraq and AF, we have over 700 military bases overseas. That's a whole heaping helping of hegemony and expensive hegemony too.