Originally Posted by Guest

Easy: the military diverts much needed funds to the current theaters of military action. It costs alot to maintain air support (fuel, munitions, support, not to mention According to the U.S. Navy's 2017 budget, each Tomahawk missile, made by Raytheon Co. RTN, cost $1.59 million and the U.S. used 59 of them on the Shayrat air field in response to a chemical attack that killed over 80 civilians and the air base was used again the next day) but it also has cost the military (yes, us taxpayers) $billions to secure "private" military solutions (Combat Support Associates, Aegis Defence Services or the former Blackwater Security Company, and support companies: Haliburton) whose owners, and benefactors include some of the most powerful figures in Washington DC (i.e.: Dick Chaney). So, things like regular and timely maintenance of......lets take a wild guess......warships are routinely delayed, training for those who actually "drive" those warships was outsourced to CD self learning, and look at what happened.....a couple of our warships got hit by other ships. One of those destroyers was actually one that had the antimissile capabilities that are so urgently needed in the Pacific right now.

Is there a better way of "defending" our country? Sure is! Stop being the world-wide policeman......concentrate on DEFENSE, not go around starting illegal wars that cost the US $trillions, and thousands of young people's lives and futures, and then blaming other politicians for the waste of that money.

Just when did we, as a nation, do anything that actually "defended" our country after WWII? Who actually threatened our country? If you say 9-11, it was terrorists from Saudi Arabia and Egypt that attacked us....not Iraq, not Afghanistan, and who harbored Bin Laden?....Pakistan, not refugees from Syria, or any of the other countries that Trump wants to stop immigration from.