To: TimF who wrote (139553 ) 10/3/2001 9:25:44 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to GDP can grow and not necessarily result in a larger budget... Also even by your prefered method defense spending has come down a lot and will continue to go down. It will almost certinly be a lower percentage of the federal budget in ten years even with SDI and new homeland defense spending. BTW - What areas of US military involvement in the world would you cancel in order to have less need for a large military and how much do you think that would save? Should we not deploy to the area around Afghanistan? Should we get out of Kuwait or the Balkans? Should we rescind our promises to help protect our NATO allies and Japan and South Korea. Should we tell Taiwan they are on their own should the communists ever attack? If spending was still at it's cold war peak then I would agree with you that it should be cut. But when we have half of the active airforce wings and not much more then half of the army divisions and naval combat ships then it has allready been slashed.
