FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
The United States currently spends $711 billion a year on military spending, which is 48% of all world wide military spending.
http://www.visualeconomics.com/military-spending-worldwide/
So, I came across someone's plan to cut military spending.
1. Mind our own business. We cannot police the world. There is no need for it. We do not need to maintain the Korean borders, we are not needed in Japan. We need to come home. The time where we are making the world safe for democracy is over. This is a time where we need to make America safe for Americans.
2. The enemy of our enemy is NOT our friend. The American government is all too eager to jump into bed with shady governments, such as those in Saudi Arabia, just because they are less bad than the Irans and North Koreas of the world. What kind of sense does this make? We spend billions putting bases in these nations to protect our oil. Well, if we could open up our own reserves, these billions in expenses would not be necessary.
3. Nothing is OK if we abandon our principles and values. We went into Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban and destroy Al Quaeda. Instead, we decided to go in and stop the drug trade, go to war in Iraq, and our mission got completely convoluted. Now, we have spent nearly a trillion dollars on wars that didn't necessarily need to be spent.
4. Don't screw with us. We need to strike feat into the hearts of the world. In the 80's, an attack against the US was unimaginable except from one source, the USSR. They were thought of as being on our level. Now, there is no one on our level as far as military power goes, but the likelihood of an attack seems higher. 9/11 happened, and two plane bombers almost did. The idea of having to deal with the US is not as intimidating as it used to be, and this is because our military is spread out around the world instead of being at home minding our business. Basically, the best way to save money is to make our military so intimidating that we don't need to use it.
5. When we fight, we fight to win. While Obama tells the world of his plan to reduce our arsenal, I would display it. This goes to the point above, but our enemies need to know that if they are going to engage us, that no military option is off the table. Instead of conducting war in the quite nice manner we have been pigeonholed into, we need to eliminate the enemy and leave.
6. When it's over, leave. No more nation building. We are a republic, not an empire. We do not need to make nations in our image. We do not need to rebuild nations. If we follow step one, and mind our own business, then there would be no need to rebuild nations. We would be destroying places that provoked or attacked us. Fuck em. Let them rebuild their own nation. They need to understand that part of provoking the US is getting your own house back in order.
Now, what this plan promises is that we do not need to spread troops all over the world in concerns that are not our own. Ron Paul would be proud. Our military is here for our defense. Our military is here to protect us, not to protect the South Koreans or the Japanese.
Now, who else could give us such an amazing plan but your favorite and mine, Glenn Beck.
I love this idea. It returns to traditional Republican values of protecting the Republic rather than subscribing to the neocon idealism that leads to an imperialistic campaign that we might not lose, but can never truly win.
http://www.visualeconomics.com/military-spending-worldwide/
So, I came across someone's plan to cut military spending.
1. Mind our own business. We cannot police the world. There is no need for it. We do not need to maintain the Korean borders, we are not needed in Japan. We need to come home. The time where we are making the world safe for democracy is over. This is a time where we need to make America safe for Americans.
2. The enemy of our enemy is NOT our friend. The American government is all too eager to jump into bed with shady governments, such as those in Saudi Arabia, just because they are less bad than the Irans and North Koreas of the world. What kind of sense does this make? We spend billions putting bases in these nations to protect our oil. Well, if we could open up our own reserves, these billions in expenses would not be necessary.
3. Nothing is OK if we abandon our principles and values. We went into Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban and destroy Al Quaeda. Instead, we decided to go in and stop the drug trade, go to war in Iraq, and our mission got completely convoluted. Now, we have spent nearly a trillion dollars on wars that didn't necessarily need to be spent.
4. Don't screw with us. We need to strike feat into the hearts of the world. In the 80's, an attack against the US was unimaginable except from one source, the USSR. They were thought of as being on our level. Now, there is no one on our level as far as military power goes, but the likelihood of an attack seems higher. 9/11 happened, and two plane bombers almost did. The idea of having to deal with the US is not as intimidating as it used to be, and this is because our military is spread out around the world instead of being at home minding our business. Basically, the best way to save money is to make our military so intimidating that we don't need to use it.
5. When we fight, we fight to win. While Obama tells the world of his plan to reduce our arsenal, I would display it. This goes to the point above, but our enemies need to know that if they are going to engage us, that no military option is off the table. Instead of conducting war in the quite nice manner we have been pigeonholed into, we need to eliminate the enemy and leave.
6. When it's over, leave. No more nation building. We are a republic, not an empire. We do not need to make nations in our image. We do not need to rebuild nations. If we follow step one, and mind our own business, then there would be no need to rebuild nations. We would be destroying places that provoked or attacked us. Fuck em. Let them rebuild their own nation. They need to understand that part of provoking the US is getting your own house back in order.
Now, what this plan promises is that we do not need to spread troops all over the world in concerns that are not our own. Ron Paul would be proud. Our military is here for our defense. Our military is here to protect us, not to protect the South Koreans or the Japanese.
Now, who else could give us such an amazing plan but your favorite and mine, Glenn Beck.
I love this idea. It returns to traditional Republican values of protecting the Republic rather than subscribing to the neocon idealism that leads to an imperialistic campaign that we might not lose, but can never truly win.