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contestgamer on 10 April 2017
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SpokenTruth said:
contestgamer said:

You realize that war provides tens of thousands jobs (hundreds of thousands if we count troops) to our people. What you're suggesting would lead to a tremendous amount of jobs.

Furthermore, you're focused exclusively on eliminating terrorists. You need to be able to create a cultural conversion too, which takes time. You need to turn those countries in to liberal, tolerant free societies and to do that you need to have a massive propoganda plan as well. 

Well....I think this answers a lot.  And what happens when we've eradicated all enemies and created puppet states with no cultural or ideologicial differences?  What need for a $600 billion military will we need then?  

It'll never happen, lets be honest. Certainly not within the next 10 generations. And if it does happen it would be in big part thanks to our overwhelming force causing those that disagree to bow their heads. So regardless, you're always going to need a massive military to maintain a world order and it's going to have to be the US that does it. You're going to need to keep spending to maintain that edge. And just because I support a big military doesn't mean I don't support spending on single payer (I do) or infrastructure (i do) or fighting climate change (I do), but survival does take some precedence.