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Originally posted by onetime2
Ahh yes, it's the USA that's standing in the way of world peace. I guess 200+ years ago the world didn't build armies.
The goal is to continue living in a democracy that requires a military that can respond to opposing forces.
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I was not inferring that the US is standing in the way of peace per se.
It is a fact that the US military and intelligence services have involved themselves in many (by that I mean a lot of) foriegn conflicts on the pretense that it was looking after American interests. This has inevitably lead to some in those nations not being all that happy with the US (just look at Latin America, South East Asia or the current Middle East conflict).
If America did not continue to stick its finger in other nations pies those nations might not have reason to want to harm Americans on their own soil.
Sure there are other nations who cause and perpetrate conflicts but we are only talking about the US and its military spending here.
I don't disagree that a nation needs to protect its sovriegnty is just thing the US spending on defense is a bit out of whack...
Maybe if they really spent it on defense rather than offense you might see a change in the numbers.