If the military cannot defend themselves here against attack, it would seem to follow that the military cannot defend us over there from attack. We are not being attacked over there. We are safe from attack over there because we are not over there. The ones not safe from attack over there are the military people, who do not have to be there because we are not there to protect.

Also, the military is not trying to kill anyone over there who is going to attack us. Anyone who is planning to attack us is not going to send dead people to attack us. People, fighting the military over there, cannot fight the military over there and come over here to attack us at the same time. If anything, the fighting over there is a diversion from focusing our attention on being attacked here.

Also, it was not too long ago that Jimmy Carter condemn the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. It is still recent history that the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan, having not been able to subdue the people there

It seems more cost effective, to say the very least, to defend ourselves from attack from here. Having a strong military did nothing to stop 911. In Texas it was someone other than a military person who put an end to the attack. Sending tanks to another country is not going to stop someone from attacking us here. Anyone planning to attack us is going to go where the military is not, so as not to have their plans disrupted.

It may be true that we can never spend enough on defense, if we are actually being defended. There is no reason to allow anyone planning to attack us to put an unecessary economic burden on us.