I mean if we cut another $50 billion or so we'll only "invest" as much as the next 17 biggest spenders of the world corabined.


http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/military-spending

And yet this is what you read in teh papers


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-08-01-debt-reduction-defense-cuts_n.htm