Perfectly said.
So many people fail to realize the true & staggering cost. We spend a TRILLION DOLLARS per year on military & defense. You can look at the below breakdown (which is now a pitifully low example because it's from 2007) and see the bottomless money pit.
A strong defense sure... but this is way, way, way over kill. Eventually people will say we just can't do this, this way anymore.
Review Article:
The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases
The Global Deployment of US Military Personnel
by Prof. Jules Dufour
Global Research, July 1, 2007
The US Military has bases in 63 countries. Brand new military bases have been built since September 11, 2001 in seven countries.
In total, there are 255,065 US military personnel deployed Worldwide.
These facilities include a total of 845,441 different buildings and equipments. The underlying land surface is of the order of 30 million acres. According to Gelman, who examined 2005 official Pentagon data, the US is thought to own a total of 737 bases in foreign lands. Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the total land area occupied by US military bases domestically within the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners worldwide (Gelman, J., 2007).
More than 1000 US Bases and/or Military Installations
The main sources of information on these military installations (e.g. C. Johnson, the NATO Watch Committee, the International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases) reveal that the US operates and/or controls between 700 and 800 military bases Worldwide.
In this regard, Hugh d’Andrade and Bob Wing's 2002 Map 1 entitled "U.S. Military Troops and Bases around the World, The Cost of 'Permanent War'", confirms the presence of US military personnel in 156 countries.
