The above graph shows the total military spending around the world for 2009. There the United States is with $711 billion compared to China at $121.9 billion and Russia at $70 billion. Then look at who the vast military industrial complex will probably attack next, Iran with its $7.2 billion military budget. I want you to ask yourself one question.
We spend half of the world's total military spending. Why is it we can no longer efficiently win wars anymore? The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have lingered on for years with no real goals that define victory. Why is that any why weren't we able to go in quickly accomplish our mission and get out based on the total military budget?
Perhaps, Henry Kissinger can provide insight. He once said military men are “dumb, stupid animals to be used” as pawns for foreign policy. Perhaps our foreign policy no longer reflects the vision of the Founding Fathers anymore. Rather it reflects what President Dwight Eisenhower warned us of in his final address to the nation.
Our Republic has become an empire--and a dying empire at that. Our vast military budget isn't being used to fight smarter wars, but it is used to occupy much like King George did shortly before the fall of the British empire. Our Founding Fathers would never approve of this police the world mentality, especially as this mentality focused on terrorism is killing the rights and liberties they left for the people of our Republic.
As we face a $14 trillion debt, it is time to look at the damage this military budget has done and put a stop to this vast military industrial complex that sells smart bombs that aren't so smart and don't meet expectations, fighter jets that are sold to bring down costs but fail not only in economics but performance as well, and so on. It is time to realize we have the capability to quickly stop war, but for some reason we have come to accept this philosophy of drawing out the wars without any real goals for victory.
It is time to realize the military budget needs to be cut just like all the other parts of federal government. It too has gotten out of control.
