The Defense Department is largely made up of the same caste of career bureaucrats that make up Health and Human Services, the IRS, and Post Office. Do you really think that a wildly spent $700 billion makes us safer than a wisely spent $250 billion? It all comes down to the quality of the individuals doing the work - just like the public schools. Dollars are not the determining factor in success, though everyone who is getting a cut will scream that they are.
You guys argue as if Ron Paul had suggested cutting the military budget to zero - which is the exact same type of non-sequitur liberals like to use when social welfare or school spending is threatened. We don't have to be robbed by layers upon layers of rent-seekers just to have a secure nation.
It wasn’t those of us that criticize Paul’s foreign policy that brought up military spending, it was Paul himself that claims to want to cut it along with his ‘blame America’ foreign policy that claims that Iran has every right to nuclear weapons. The guy is just an idiot.
I am all for an intelligent conversation taking place in America about how to improve our bang for the buck while maintaining a strong National Defense insupport of our nation and our allies and our interests across the world. Paul though makes an ignorant argument that would be a blow to freedom worldwide.