[plogypeskelry]

Or, you could look at it as a percentage of global military spending. We spend as much the rest of the world combined on our military activities. We spend eight times as much as our nearest competitor, China. Are we really that insecure?

This isn't about cutting waste, this is about a radical change to our foreign policy. Even worse than the damage being done to our economic future, is the fall we're setting ourselves up for when the rest of the world gets sick of being pushed around.

You could do that but, frankly, our military goal shouldn't be parity with the rest of the world but, rather, should be "strong enough so that the others don't even think of fucking with us."