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Thanks to other diarists, we've seen all the charts and graphs that show the data:  Defense spending doubling in real terms in ten years, Afghanistan a billion dollars a day, etc.  

For the non data driven, how about an anecdote?  Last night's humdrum midweek DC United soccer game featured a pre kickoff flyover by four state of the art fighter jets from a nearby airbase.   The halftime entertainment (I promise I am not making this up) was not a military band (though we pay about half a billion for those), but a Marine Corps "Silent Drill Team."  Everyone loves a cool jet, and the drill team was quite polished in its presentation, but ....

...we're taking food and medicine away from people and we can't even trim the mllitary?  Come on.


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