Defense: The Problem Is Not Money

[abaris]

Given how we have utterly failed to capitalize on the best defensive geography on the entire earth to better allocate our resources,  and think strength means to further misallocate our resources and further fail to capitalize on our natural geographic advantage, I hold very little hope for this country's long term position in the world over the next 50-100 years.

Don't forget that after 1945 it was almost a constant state of war for the USA. Korea, some regime change efforts in the late 50ies, the quagmire of Vietnam until this so called war on terror that's been raging for the last 16 years. The only time without new military interventions were the Carter years, if you don't count the hostage liberation attempt.

War feeds war and the military industrial complex. I can't imagine how it is to grow up in a country that has been at war for something like 7 decades. Must be pretty Orwellian if you don't buy the official tales.