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We spend that much to maintain superpower status. Everyone gripes about the U.S. being the world's police, but no one else seems to step up and take the role. The U.N. refuses to enforce its own laws (or they simply can't) and God knows the E.U. won't step into this role if they get the superpower status. We, as the superpower, are going to be the target of actions like 9/11 no matter what we do. It is in our best interest to police areas that cannot, or will not police themselves. Its like a mansion in a bad neighborhood. The owner of the mansion hires guards to patrol the streets surrounding the mansion in order to ensure his own safety, and ends up benefitting the people that live around the mansion. Democrats don't spend more because they don't seem to realize this. Somalia turned out to be a very cheap operation since Clinton turned tail and ran at the first sign of trouble. However, if we had done things right and actually done some good there, it would have been much more expensive.

<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 5952" data-attributes="member: 241"><p>We spend that much to maintain superpower status. Everyone gripes about the U.S. being the world&#039;s police, but no one else seems to step up and take the role. The U.N. refuses to enforce its own laws (or they simply can&#039;t) and God knows the E.U. won&#039;t step into this role if they get the superpower status. We, as the superpower, are going to be the target of actions like 9/11 no matter what we do. It is in our best interest to police areas that cannot, or will not police themselves. Its like a mansion in a bad neighborhood. The owner of the mansion hires guards to patrol the streets surrounding the mansion in order to ensure his own safety, and ends up benefitting the people that live around the mansion. Democrats don&#039;t spend more because they don&#039;t seem to realize this. Somalia turned out to be a very cheap operation since Clinton turned tail and ran at the first sign of trouble. However, if we had done things right and actually done some good there, it would have been much more expensive.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Dave, post: 5952, member: 241"] We spend that much to maintain superpower status. Everyone gripes about the U.S. being the world's police, but no one else seems to step up and take the role. The U.N. refuses to enforce its own laws (or they simply can't) and God knows the E.U. won't step into this role if they get the superpower status. We, as the superpower, are going to be the target of actions like 9/11 no matter what we do. It is in our best interest to police areas that cannot, or will not police themselves. Its like a mansion in a bad neighborhood. The owner of the mansion hires guards to patrol the streets surrounding the mansion in order to ensure his own safety, and ends up benefitting the people that live around the mansion. Democrats don't spend more because they don't seem to realize this. Somalia turned out to be a very cheap operation since Clinton turned tail and ran at the first sign of trouble. However, if we had done things right and actually done some good there, it would have been much more expensive. [/QUOTE]

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