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To: TimF who wrote (327786)	3/4/2007 2:12:10 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573954

One of the reasons we don't have serious enemies is because we spend a lot of defense. To my knowledge, there has never been a study that shows the more armaments you have the less enemies you have. And even if there is a correlation, that does not explain the number of wars we get into. We have become a militaristic culture That's just crazy. Out culture has become significantly less militaristic over time, at least since WWII. I see.........because not all our industry is focused on the war effort like it was in WW II, the US has become less militaristic. Sorry, nice spin but I ain't buying it. If we really where a militaristic culture a weapons program of this size would be to small to seriously be noticed. If we where (like you said before) "a whole culture that is devoted exclusively to defense and war", than Iraq would probably be considered a minor skirmish. When you spend half a trillion dollars on defense, sadly $1.7 billion is small. And btw, to my knowledge there was only the one article. None of the news programs have picked up on it. In fact, $1.7 billion is small potatoes as US defense allocations go.