So the military will be beefed up. Unless Hillary wins. And she won't.
If we grow the economy, have a smarter tax policy, and lessen entitlements, the money for the military will not be a problem.
I am not a nation builder. I do not seek foreign entanglements. But crazy countries like North Korea and Iran cannot get nuclear weapons and then turn aggressive with them. Somebody has to stop them.
If you'll remember, Bush ran on those premises.
But crazy countries like North Korea and Iran cannot get nuclear weapons and then turn aggressive with them. Somebody has to stop them.
The Russians are crazy. The Chinese are crazy. We are crazy (witness the disgusting adulation for an airhead like Bernie, or a sleazy flake like Trump), but unlike the muzzies, none of the above have a death wish. But we take it farther than that.
All of these rogue regimes use our humanity against us. Our biggest problem is the impotence of overwhelming power, nuclear or conventional, in that we are so demonstrably unwilling to use it. If we'd used a tactical neutron warhead to make an empty shell out of central Baghdad in return for Saddam's espionage arm backing the OKC bombing, none of the silliness in Iraq would have happened. Similarly, if we'd bombed the Kaaba with pig guts and left it a smoking hole with a MOAB after Saudi sponsorship of Mohammed Atta et al., we wouldn't see ISIS.
'Oh, you wouldn't do THAT!' No, we wouldn't. That leaves us effectively without them. It costs WAY more money to fight a conventional war.