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Originally posted by lendaddy
Wow I actually agree with this for the most part. But when it comes to our nations defense I think we were meant to have a very strong executive hand.
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We (Americans) tried to establish a government whose sole authority is to carry the mail and defend the country; but that restriction on government was fought by every president from Washington (illegal taxation and military action in the Whiskey Rebellion) right down to the neo-conservative we have today. Hasn't worked, the federal government sets its own limits on its power, a prescription for what we have today.
I spent over 25 years in the military; active duty and reserves, enlisted and officer beginning in 1967 and ending in 2003; and will tell you plainly that we don't need what we have today. There is no threat of invasion, other than the ongoing invasion from our southern border that the federal government is encouraging, from any country on earth. The notion that Al Qaeda is an invasion threat is too ludicrous to discuss; the current administration is presiding over the Albanian muslim illegal immigrant invasion and occupation of the Christian Serb province of Kosovo as I write, so isn't concerned with that european invasion.
So why is the US military larger, by money spent, than the next 27 countries added together? I dare say you can't justify that.