I was surprised that, in Monday night's presidential debate, Mitt Romney agreed with President Barack Obama on the rightness of many of his foreign policy endeavors. Romney took issue with Obama's handling of the Syrian situation, but what he offered as an alternative is more like a fairy tale than a plan.
A real disagreement was Romney's insistence on spending more on the military. Military expenditures are already by far the biggest item in the budget. The Pentagon has arranged for almost every state to have some kind of military establishment. Members of Congress naturally want to keep receiving funds for their districts no matter how wasteful. They do stimulate the economy. But is it acceptable that we should stimulate the economy by spending on personnel and weapons that have no purpose but to kill, rather than spending on health care, education and repairing our infrastructure?
When George W. Bush took us into two wars and lowered taxes, the surplus we enjoyed during the Clinton administration turned into a deficit almost overnight. We continue to build on this deficit, which is caused more than anything else by our military spending. It isn't making us any safer. It is rotting us from within.
Helen Brinich Lakewood
Source: http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2012/10/3rd_debate_more_military_spend.html
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