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Originally Posted by fugazifan
it has done necessary stuff. but at the moment it does not. for the past decade its wars have cost over a trillion dollars and hundreds of thousand if not over a million lives in iraq and afghanistan not to mention millions of refugees. the us' military budget is the highest it has been since WWII and for what? why is that much money needed now? if there were extensive budget cuts then the country could easily afford subsidizing healthcare and education for example, something that would benefit US citizens and the rest of the world much more than purchasing and testing new weapons.
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Well, a lot of the new weapons I've read about seem to be more so aimed controlling masses of people w/ out fatalities. Which sure, looks good on paper but still raises some scary questions. I don't know. Another one of those topics I currently have no real take on as I can see the pros and cons. I've always been somewhat indifferent when it comes to a lot of military related stuff. Probably partially because I come from a big military family and know a lot of military guys that have done some great things in their military careers (feeding hungry Vietnamese children/etc). War is ugly, always. Whatever. We're animals and we tend to behave as such and have been doing so since we originated as a species.