Monday, July 4, 2011

16 Reasons Why The United States Can No Longer Afford To Be The Police Of The World

This was up at The American Dream

Makes one go hmmmmm.
Interesting read. It has very valid points and he has numbers that seem to back it up.
This article is by the owner/author of the site, not me.

Paragraph one:.......Did you know that the United States military is now bombing 6 different countries?  U.S. aircraft are conducting air strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and now Somalia.  There is a U.S. military base in over half of the countries on the planet and U.S. military spending is over 7 times larger than the military spending of any other nation on earth.  Yes, the United States will always need a strong military.  But with our national debt exploding at an exponential rate, can the United States really afford to continue to be the police of the world?

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