(1) The military should be used to “defend” America. It has no other legitimate purpose.
(2) As things stand today, the military is used to defend South Korea, Lithuania, Greece, France, and Japan, but not to protect the American Southwest from an invasion of millions of illegal aliens.
(3) The border of South Korea is secure. America’s border? Don’t even go there.
(4) Why do we need a gazillion overseas military bases? Why do we need an “Africa Command”?
(5) What’s the use of a military that is used for every conceivable purpose - from neocon democracy crusades for women’s rights in the Middle East to “duty to protect” liberal interventions in Somalia, Haiti, and Libya - but to defend the states of the Union from invasion?
(6) How do you justify spending enormous amounts of money on foreign interventions when Muslim terrorists are allowed to waltz into America through our front door and establish colonies in our cities?
(7) What is being accomplished by spending enormous amounts of resources on foreign wars when Muslim terrorists are allowed to immigrate here legally? What is the use of subjecting American natives to the TSA system because it would be “racial profiling” to use reasonable criteria?
Logistics.
It isn't a game of Command and Conquer out there, you need to have supply lines, forward positions, strategic and tactical data points, and people who know the weather, the political situation, and the cultural impact of what is going on in each part of the world.
You can't just send in soldiers and sailors without having your logistics taken care of beforehand. That is why you need people already positioned before an emergency takes place.
Ron Paul doesn’t want to defend the US from Muslim terrorists. We simply need to ‘understand’ them and avoid hurting their self-esteeeeem.
Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke,
You gotta understand,
It’s just our bringin’ up-ke
That gets us out of hand.
Our mothers all are junkies,
Our fathers all are drunks.
Golly Moses, natcherly we’re punks!
Gee, Officer Krupke, we’re very upset;
We never had the love that ev’ry child oughta get.
We ain’t no delinquents,
We’re misunderstood.
Deep down inside us there is good!
Again, I shall ask: “There always has been, is now and always will be a dominant world military power. Just what county or group would you like to see be that power?”
The is NO defense without a significant offense. There is none in the competative business world. There is none in sports. And, there is none in the protection of the United States.
If this nation is not positioned militarily throughout the world, our ability for a deterant offense (yes, that is defense) the nation is a great risk as are our critical allies and interests. Ron Paul wants to violate the most important objective of the US Constitution.
You forgot Germany, one of the biggest expenditures, or the biggest.