Why is the U.S. military a waste of half a TRILLION taxpayer dollars a year?

Question

The U.S. spends half a Trillion dollars on the military every year and they can't win a simple war in Iraq or can't even find Bin Laden.

Their enemies are fighting and winning with equipment that is 40 years old while the U.S. soldiers have the latest weapons, technology and gear and they still can't win.

The U.S. military is a complete waste of half a Trillion dollars a year.

John T

It took you 60 seconds to read this question! What, did you have to find someone to read this to you? Typical ignorant uneducated stupid American.

Answer 1

It is not a complete waste of money. You are confused. You are allowing your emotion about an unpopular war to cloud your judgement about the need for a military that protects the nation. Perhaps I might agree with you that we are wasting some money in some of our current operations.

Regards.

Answer 2

to assume that the "enemy is winning" is a preposterus assumption, how did you determine there winning? because theres still a "war" on you probably are one of those people who wrongly assume we lost vietnam.

also the whole winning thing? people always make this godamn mistake the US MILITARY IS NOT A POLICE FORCE!!! thats what were doing here. were acting as police. our mission is simple to smash the enemy flat. which the conventional forces we did very quickly. then we turned into police officers trying to route out an enemy that hides because he is weak.

now our hands are tied we cant do what every goddamned soldier knows needs doing.

and to assume that its a "complete waste of half a trillion dollars a year" is the shearest folly. a great philospher once said to "ensure peace prepair for war" we out bought the USSR in the cold war and they collapsed. but in doing so all are attention was directed towards europe and russia as well as SE. Asia no one expected the Middle east to launch cowardice attacks against civilan targets. (at least when the japanese launched an attack they hit a viable military taget) then you forget were fighting insurgents... were a conventional army still setup to fight a world war against a conventional army. now were adapting as best we can to a situation no one predicted. were holding down an area in a civil war trying not to let them kill each other well we try to stabilise the area and support a healthy democracy in an area that has no history of democracy. throw in the fact that every other country in the region is throwning in Jihadists, that spread terror through out iraq so badly that there scared to death.

what you need to do is go out and read up on the last 109 years of US's history. then maybe you would see how we got in this situation in the first place. the problem with being the SOLE super power in the world is that everyone hates you. especially when one side involces religon

also to assume a weapon thats old is ineffective... hmm let me bring out a 10KT nuclear warhead (about equivalant to the hiroshima bomb) thats 60 years old. also most major tatcital systems havent changed in forever its the same things that we used in WW2 ust more refined. like a MP44 as opposed to a AK or M16, only diffrence is in the round and when it was made.

also you cant trust the media they dont show half the story of what goes on in this country, they belive that bad news makes good news, there always quick to point out the death tole, you know what the media needs to do reascher, what each region is doing, you always here "secretarian violence on the rise in Baghdad" i know an area in Baghdad were you can do presence patrols instead of combat patrols. they dont attack americans, or the IA they only attack the IP because they hate them.

thats enough ranting for now... do me a favor think about it do you think will announce everytime we capture some one... or that we infiltrated this or that network or cell? why give our enemies free intel. its opsec

Answer 3

Well, for it to be a complete waste, America would have to have no enemies.


America does have enemies. It also has the world's most expensive military: thanks to having some of the world's most expensive workers, and a very corrupt Congress apropriating the money to fund that Military. Oh, and exchange rates, of course.


There probably are ways to make the military less wasteful of taxpayer dollars. More transparent bidding processes. The death penalty for corrupt politicians. I doubt any will ever be adopted, though.

Answer 4

The federal budget is 3 trillion dollars. Over 1.5 trillion goes to entitlement programs like social sec and medicare. Another .5 trillion goes to welfare and other social programs. That leaves 1 trillion for the US to use. Half goes to defense and the other half goes to the other agencies. The true waste is the 2 trillion going to social programs to keep lazy people voting liberal/Demoncrat. Think of the increase of good the US could do at home and abroad if people would get off their buts and get a job.

Answer 5

I would not think of spending money on our national defense a waste of money. Military spending is the one thing that the federal government ought to be spending money on. Congress should not be spending money on bridges to nowhere, private woodstock museums, or Nancy Pelosi's jaunts to Syria.

The reason that the US military is having such a hard time is that congress has sent our soldiers into battle, and tied their hands behind their back. They tell them to fight, then bring charges against soldiers who do just that. The soldiers are also weary of our national media contantly harping on them and all of their failures.
A qood question would be why does the media and certain congressman want to do everything they can to make sure our soldier lose?

Answer 6

We spend half a trillion bucks on stupid things like shiny billion dollar stealth bombers and nuclear attack submarines.

We could spend less and get more results against terrorists if we would train lots of infantry and special operations soldiers.

TBH we could probably get more by bribing the Iraqis into getting along than fighting them.

"You idiot, put that car bomb away. I'm not losing my $1000 a year because you want 72 virgins."

Answer 7

You know what is a waste of money? Welfare and all of those other socialist entitlement programs. We're talking half of the budget.

You need to watch the news or something because we've already won the war. We took out Saddam Hussein's entire army in a matter of months with MINIMAL casualties. We have been there almost five years, and we've managed to set up a democratic government, held elections (which had a better turn-out than our own elections, even though the Iraqis knew it could have cost them their lives). We're killing terrorists right and left, for all we know Bin Laden is dead.

WHAT THE CRAP ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Are you a visitor from a parallel universe?

We've lost 3500 troops. I'd like to know how many terrorists we've killed. I bet that number is a heck of a lot higher.

Answer 8

Ryu, you are a complete idiot. What do you know about the military or asymmetric warfare?? Take your liberal propaganda elsewhere.
I agree with john, you wasted 60 seconds of my life that I'll never get back.

Answer 9

For a half trillion dollars, the US should have been able to decimate Iraq, Iran and Syria in one fell Blitzkrieg.

However, it is the policy of the US government to "Stay the Course," and subject our own soldiers to a "Chinese Water Torture" type of strategy in trying to achieve a "win."

Answer 10

They can't win "a simple war in Iraq"?

You losers who say that America can't or isn't winning should go change your own diapers and leave the brave men and women to do the thinking.