My point, made rather facetiously, is that if you mention to the average Conservative that our debt problem requires a cut to defense spending, they will go bat shit crazy at even the suggestion of a reduction in planned increases. Suddenly, the debt doesn’t matter. And if the debt doesn’t matter there, then it doesn’t matter anywhere.
I guess another way to look at it is:
When we run out of money, we might not want those troops home anyway-—because, you recall, the government thinks that recently separated troops are likely to become terrorists.
[ I am, of course, being very sarcastic here....]