[ashleyjoseph]

Think about how many countries on that list we protect military. We provide the majority of the defense spending for 10 of the 14 countries on that list (other than ourselves of course), not to mention dozens of other countries (all of the NATO countries not listed above for instance). Don't you think that might impact our defense spending just a little?

Hail Ericams2786,

i have a question mate, and imma askin' in all honesty...

if we accept that our mighty and wealthy nation spent 1 trillion dollars or so on our military endeavors, could you (or one 'o our military experts) tell me what countries we were defendin'?

what country be it, specifically, that we are defendin'?

and who, specfically, are we defendin' them from?

i asks because i hear this refrain often, so lookin' back at 2009, what weaklin' countries were were defendin'?

*waits for a reply*

- MeadHallPirate