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The defense budget for a nation that is not threatened by a nation state capable of attacking it, is more properly called an offense budget. Our troops are spread all over the world defending other nations from potential enemies and making the world safe for US enterprise. Nevertheless, even though it consumes half of the federal governments discretionary budget, and it is loaded with wasteful spending on weapons that benefit the districts of many in Congress, it is not part of the Ryan plan for cutting federal deficits and it is not a substantial target in the Obama budget plan. This editorial suggests some ways to cut the budget without encouraging some suicidal nation from attacking us. It won't happen for a lot of reasons, but we need to keep pushing for cost containment anyway.
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