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In this article, it states that the US is spending roughly $500 BILLION annually on military and "defense." (roughly HALF of all global defense spending)! But note that there is a new strategy in the works that may just top anything we've seen yet so far in world history. Our military is no longer planning on just going after nations that threaten US security - We're now moving on and setting our sights on nations that we deem "unstable." (!)
I can't help but sit here and wonder .... What happened to peace-loving America? Since when did the US become all about invading and taking over "unstable" nations as its "defense" strategy, merely as a matter of course? If I remember my US History classes, is this not what Germany did in WWII as their armies ravaged, invaded, and took over over other countries throughout the world?
And at what cost - in terms of ruined military soldiers' lives and those of their families' - are these plans being made? To what extent will these continued military and "defense" strategies affect our own citizens here at home - our very own neighbors and friends?
And are we, as a nation, "okay" with continuing to spend a staggering $500 billion annually for the destruction, slaughter, and over-taking-by-force of other lands, resources, and innocent people?
Are we prepared and willing to "sacrifice" our young loved one's lives in this truly unfathomable, unquenchable appetite for national military conquest, supremacy, control and exploitation of resources and opportunities that are not even ours to begin with?
Do we even dare to contemplate the financial cost of the continuation of such "defense" policies? In our effort to go after other "unstable" nations, our projected '06 budget cuts that will affect our lower income (most vulnerable) population, such as health care services, children's education, food programs and housing programs are slated to be cut by well over $111 BILLION. (http://www.nlihc.org/news/022205.pdf ) Any way you look at it, that's a huge increase in persons who will go without food, housing, health care, and education.
So are we okay with all that? That is, are we willing to "stick it" to our own very vulnerable populations here at home in order to go forth and devastate other even more vulnerable populations in as many as 25 new "unstable" nations worldwide?
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