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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (120288)	11/22/2003 6:04:17 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

4% Of course I am. This is still much more than most other industrialized countries spend, and more than potential rivals for superpower status, like China, spend. Doubling it will hobble our economy. Superpower status is intimately tied to the health of the superpower's economy. Large military expenditures (compared to its rivals) undermine that health. So the more money a superpower spends on its military relative to its rivals the faster it loses its superpower status. Unless it uses its military to ruthlessly exploit its conquests. In our case not only are we not exploiting our "conquests", but are spending huge sums trying to nation build them.