You are wrong.
It IS about money.
We send Africa $15 billion and we do not equip our Army properly. We have a $2 trillion plus budget and we spend so much on domestic and global welfare that we do not have enough money to spend on our military. Russia has developed ICBMs with maneuverable warheads and final stages using scramjet technology and we are not seriously developing an ABM system.
You are so wrong. It is about money. It is about the money we waste. It is the fact we spend less on our military in 2005 as a percent of total spending than we spent in 1993! The world is getting much more dangerous, and we are spending less on Defense (as a percent of total spending) than we did 12 years ago!
It IS about money.
Excellent post. It goes to the heart of the matter.
How about the trillions spent to keep the welfare mob and their pimps well-fed, clothed and housed?
This would be better spent on our military.