Where are the critics of Big Government? Dabbing at the trickles, rather than stanching the gusher.

Do I remember that it was military spending that brought down the USSR empire too?

Add up "foreign military assistant" programs and see those numbers double again.

Can you imagine how outraged we'd be if Russia and China had huge permanent bases in Mexico, like we do all around them? And what an affront to the nations of the Middle East it is for the US to have massive bases in Iraq, Qatar, and Kuwait, and aircraft carriers in nearby seas? Why must we so strut?

Yes I can, it was called the Cuban Missile Crisis. And the movie Red Dawn!

on that last one!