I would agree that we should spend our defense dollars wisely. Rummy was trying to do just that and he was shown the door. However, I firmly believe that if you pull back a few layers of the onion you will see that most if not all of those forces in the world that wish ill tidings on the United States will turn out to be supported by and or funded by mother Russia in one way or another. Russia is not our friend.
Keep our nukes fresh and ready. Fully fund and build the missle defense system and a 600 ship Navy and let Russia choke on it.(again) Successful negotiations come from a point of strength, not weakness.
The real issue as I see it is ignorance. There are way too many congresscritters who are ingorant of the threats that face us, as are the sheeple who elected them. We are "whistling past the graveyard" in regard to the threats that face our nation in so many ways it is unbelievable.
While I can't help but like Rumsfeld for many reasons, I think his arrogance and pig headedness were his downfall which led to his penny wise and pound foolish policies in Iraq. If you recall, Rumsfeld maintained until almost the day that he left office, that if his field commanders needed additional troops or equipment, they had but to ask...yet when General Shinseki did just that, he was summarily put out to pasture.
Yes, there is an active global socialist movement that is out to destroy America, both from without and within by a not so hidden fifth column.
Whether our demise is being orchestrated by gutting the middle class by exporting manufacturing jobs, dumbing down the school system vis a vis the liberal seditionist professors, diluting our culture by our open border policy, destroying our morality by pop culture, employing our own constitution by interpreting it as a suicide pact, or spending us into bankruptcy, it amounts to pretty much the same thing.
If it is necessary to have some nuclear capability [ as I believe it is ], we should do it using proven technologies instead of taking a 100 billion dollar gamble on an unproven one...and last but certainly not least, be ready, willing, and able to use the technology as a last resort.