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To: bentway who wrote (531282)	11/21/2009 1:16:37 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576250

>> The military is a yearly drain that is mostly squandered overseas. Of course, this isn't true. Nearly half the budget is for base operations and personnel, and with only a couple of exceptions the large military bases and concentrations of personnel are typically stateside. Furthermore, other portions of the budget like procurement and R&D, another ~$200B, is predominantly spent in the US. While significant expenditures fund base operations in places like Germany and Korea, these are not huge items by Army standards. Of course, we have significant operations now on a temporary basis in Iraq and Afg. but these are atypical, and frankly, a lot of these costs are sunk and would have been spent even were we not at war (e.g., the cost of operating a C-130 doesn't change much whether it is here or there).