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President Trump has proposed a $54 billion increase in defense spending, which he said would be "one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."
Past administrations have increased military spending, but typically to fulfil a specific mission. Jimmy Carter expanded operations in the Persian Gulf. Ronald Reagan pursued an arms race with the Soviet Union, and George W. Bush waged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr. Trump has not articulated a new mission that would require a military spending increase. This has left analysts wondering what goals he has in mind. Erin M. Simpson, a national security consultant, called Mr. Trump's plans "a budget in search of a strategy."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/is-americas-military-big-enough.html
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What do you think about the proposed increase in military spending ? Does USA really need more weapons ?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @03:49AM (1 child)
Uh, that didn't work out.
A big war breaking out is always a possibility, but that is no reason to be constantly paranoid and no reason to steal massive amounts of people's money to fund a ridiculously bloated military.
The fact that we can't be perfectly 100% ideally prepared is no reason to give up and just throw in the towel.
We're not. Last time I looked, I believe we spend more on our military than the next 7 or so countries combined. If anything, we need to halve the military budget (and that's being generous), and then they can figure out how to become more efficient with the money they do have. It's funny how, to the inconsistent 'small government' types, throwing endless amounts of money at other problems (such as schools) could not possibly fix them, but throwing endless amounts of money at the military is a-okay.
Such is treason, demonstrating that you value neither your own generation nor the next.
This has nothing to do with treason, idiot. I'd say it's worse to continually steal people's money for the military and then leave our own citizens to die in the streets than it is to maybe be unprepared for some giant hypothetical war. 'The land of the free and the home of the brave' seems to be in a perpetual state of fear and is unwilling to take any risks whatsoever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @03:22PM
Bravo, well said!