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I'll take responsibility for the lack of relevance on some posts, as I never really suggested a direction for the thread to take. That said, perhaps discussing whether or not this level of military spending is appropriate would work.
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I'm a Democrat, but I'm a hawk. I think it's great that we have a strong military, as long as we aren't tempted to use it for the wrong reasons. I think that our large military, and our commitment to shared defense with a number of counties (notably Europe, Austrailia, Japan, and Taiwan) results in less defense spending by those countries. Also, it might be more accurate to lump the military spending of the European NATO countries together.
So in other words, if we spent less, other countries would spend more. Our military protects not just the US, but a ton of other countries as well.
I'll go ahead and agree with lebell on two points. First, that we need to rethink our forward basing structure, particularly Germany, and that we need to keep aircraft carrier battle groups.
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