Do you even know how big the defense budget is, or how many bases we have throughout the world, many of them obsolete or otherwise useless, except to drive host nations’ local economies?
We will have to just disagree because I see you are a person who is simply out of touch with reality as it concerns the DOD...and the threats posed by radical Islam. You claim you have been there done that but I have a hard time comprehending that as you seem to just be parroting Ron Paul's lunacy