The President understands you don't have to flaunt your military prowess to have a a great military. Defense gets such a big budget partly because of bloat, partly because of the MIC, and partly because of deployments - deploying militaries is not cheap, especially when you're all over the world with many resources in combat roles for nearly 2 decades.
Imagine how different our world would be had this country not be in the hands of criminals, war profiteers, and sociopaths for decades. Imagine what those $8 trillion could have done had they not been wasted. Imagine what all those lives lost could have accomplished. Imagine no ISIS and far fewer terrorist attacks in Europe. Imagine no migrant crisis in Europe. All these things stem from neocon horseshit and Trump is doing his best to begin the cleanup.
The President understands you don't have to flaunt your military prowess to have a a great military. Defense gets such a big budget partly because of bloat, partly because of the MIC, and partly because of deployments - deploying militaries is not cheap, especially when you're all over the world with many resources in combat roles for nearly 2 decades.
Imagine how different our world would be had this country not be in the hands of criminals, war profiteers, and sociopaths for decades. Imagine what those $8 trillion could have done had they not been wasted. Imagine what all those lives lost could have accomplished. Imagine no ISIS and far fewer terrorist attacks in Europe. Imagine no migrant crisis in Europe. All these things stem from neocon horseshit and Trump is doing his best to begin the cleanup.
One of the most powerful campaign ads from the 2016 cycle was so good the words stick with me almost verbatim:
"We could have rebuilt our roads, our schools, our hospitals. We could have rebuilt... everything."