I have already quoted the part of the part of his farewell address, included in the debate, that is most relevant to your query (paragraph K). (There are many parts of the Farewell address that are not in the debate, incidentally.) But again, the subject of this debate is not our armaments. The subject is the announced Bush policy of promoting Democracy in every land.
Nobody likes the Republic turned into democracy thing. Ironic thing though, we use elements of democracy to meddle every two years in hopes of regaining the Republic we had.
One uses the most effective tools one has at their time in history. I think W's plan is good and more impotantly better than nothing.