“The problem with that theory is that big money doesn’t make money in times of peace, and for today’s politicians on the take, making money for big money is most important. They don’t care about average Americans except to have them serve their interests. It ain’t difficult to figure out.”
Now your sounding a little bit like a liberal. While war costs a lot of money and like every other government program leaves a lot of private interest willing to line the pockets of incumbents in position where they have both motive and money to do so. It also more importantly feeds into the ego and greed for power of politicians.
While we have forces stationed all around the world to able to intervene into world’s events abroad they have power.(acting like police men) They in Washington get a very strong if not sometimes dictoral stay on how them events unfold. This is something they will argue with some truth is useful to the United States.(just as it is also most valuable to them who directly wield that power)
But is also something, as people like Paul point out, that is extremely expensive for the we American people to support.
Its not cheap maintaining a Gigantic military with deployments all around the world. and for what? so that the ego’s of Washington D.C. politicians can be soothed? Or worse yet so that ungrateful foreigners don’t have to provide for the full cost of their own defense?
I think Paul might be onto something insomuch that the usefulness of this program is perhaps outweighed by its financial and otherwise burden upon we the American people.(I don’t care what the rest of the world thinks about us).
On the extreme end maybe the military should fall back to defending only those people who pay for their support(we the American people) and the country’s we deem to be both allies and prepositional contributors to our defense as well.
Agreed. Security is not just about having a strong military, it is also about having a nation that is fiscally strong and solvent. Our never ending imperialist adventures and our charitable military defense of countries that are more solvent than the USA need reexamined in view of our real fiscal stress.
This is 2011 not 1961. It was a different time in 1961 for the USA. We were numero uno in the world by most measures. There is only one explanation of how the USA has declined so precipitously in 50 years....we’ve had 50 years of incompetent self serving political leadership.