Riddle me this confucius, just who is our enemy that we're spending all this money on suddenly?
Iraq? Don't b******t me.
Iran? See above
N. Korea? ditto
None of those countries pose a realistic threat to us. Their defense spending is negligible compared to ours and they're a threat(Iraq before invasion)? To spend this much on military without an actual enemy is ridiculous.
I realize that asking this question on a military forum would give me these sort of cynical responses, but hey, it's the only forum i got.
In case you don't believe me about some of the facts, see here:
http://www.sensiblepriorities.org/budget_analysis.htm
or
http://borgenproject.org/Defense_Spending.html
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar..._United_States
Btw, the gdp is not our budget like i tried to explain before. The budget is the money leftover that we can actually use. The gdp is all our money before subtracting what we owe. Plus, i did research this, that's why i posted the question here in the first place.