We do not have a choice.
We are not given choices of people who give a strong message of peace & sophisticated models of conflict resolution between countries.
We are given choices of persons who all like to spend a lot of money with defense industries and pretend they are keeping us safe by spending more and more money on military.
Cost of military activity to scare away terrorist in Afghanistan and Iraq: $300 billion.
Cost of a box cutter for terrorists to scare America: $2
Who would you rather have running your fear business?
I laugh at the American politicians like the Vietnamese and Koreans do also. They are not warriors. They are spoilt children with toys.
Also, by the guys numbers up top the 466 billion defense budget is 19% of 2.4 trillion. (The 4% is the amount of increase.)
But my piechart to this link shows 40% of the budget goes to military costs including the interest payments on past war/defense borrowing.
http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
Also: Funny about all that water coming out of the ocean isn't it?
2006-10-26 03:48:27
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answered by J D 3
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Why don't you save your money and then take a trip to America. You will find That most Americans are just normal people trying to make their way in the world. They are very proud of their country, of course it is not perfect but you will see how ridicules your question is. Most Americans spend their money on raising their kids and living their lives. The fact that the government spends a lot on defence is the price they pay for the freedom to live as they wish. The UK spends an awful lot as well, and I wouldn't want it any other way.
2006-10-26 03:23:14
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answered by Thornsey 4
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We, as Americans need a defensive force to protect our nation against anyone who would wish to do our citizens harm. Financially tho, if you were to read the White House Economic Fiscal Report, you would see in our national domestic expenditures, we only spend 8 to 12 % annually on the military, with the rest going to housing, utilities and other things that keep our country running smoothly.
For example, if you were to look at N Koreas Financial spreadsheet, they spend almost 35% annually on their military, which is a HUGE amount of money.
2006-10-26 03:37:33
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answered by hockeytwn09 3
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The USA spends $498 billion on the military complex. That's more then the next four Countries on the world list in added together. With the exception of China which spends about half what the USA does.
2006-10-26 03:18:50
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answered by jl_jack09 6
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we know the world hates us.
also we have a long tradition of using the army to steal stuff.
( like america) it has been very profitable. now we need it to protect us from the justice of the victims.
with no army the world would take back what we stole and toss us all into prison for war crimes. the winners write the history.
Since we are the present winners we get to say what happened and why.
Did you think the terrorists are mad at us for NO REASON or just because they hate our freedom? They see us differently and have different history books. as far as information is concerned. we in america get fed pap while most of the worls gets a different story. we are like the N. koreans trapped inside a censored country. TIMES magazine has one sily cover for USA and another real cover for the rest of the world because we cannot handle the truth.
yes we get fed better than N. Korea, but we are still insulated from truth so we will just watch football and go to work and drink booze and smoke pot so we will never understand what is really going on. It is like BIG BROTHER and Fox news is the delivery system for the pablum and the hate.
2006-10-26 03:22:55
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answered by Anonymous
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2016-12-05 06:13:40
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answered by ? 4
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We actually only spend about 4% of our GDP on the military which ranks us 26th. It is just that we have such a large GDP that makes it seem that we are spending a great deal.
Most of the big spenders are in the Middle East.
2006-10-26 03:26:52
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answered by Alex 6
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1.As a percentage of our GNP(gross national product) it is 4.8% which is a lot lower than dozen of countries 2. Freedom is not free if you are not willing to defend your freedom someone will take it away. There are many countries that are free because of the money we spend on our military if we were to become isolationist many countries would feel free to attack other countries ex China/Taiwan N Korea/S Korea Iran?Iraq I could go on and on.
2006-10-26 04:04:25
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answered by Ynot! 6
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They also spend a lot of money on junk food and stuff like that, while most of the rest of the world is starving.
2006-10-26 05:51:20
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answered by Anonymous
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in order to defend your country you must have an Army. I am sure your country has an army as well. we spend on training, weapons, protective gear. Does your Army not recieve any of that stuff?
2006-10-26 03:24:47
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answered by azile_wehttam 3
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