re: #15 HappyWarrior

It’s the same thing with the military budget too. We already have without question the most capable military in the world but we need to spend more? The military budget is yet another example of why right wingers are hypocritical assholes when it comes to spending.

Exactly my point earlier. I get wanting to have the biggest and the best, and on one level, I’m okay with that. But this isn’t the Cold War, and there isn’t another power on this Earth that can stand up to the current might of the US military. The only people who even come close, only get away with it because we’re compassionate enough not to kill the civilians whom they use as human shields. I’d rather we cut back on the numbers and use the budget to increase our technological approach, in the hope of reducing civilian casualties should we need to get in another shooting war (and my ultimate hope is that that would be never!).