[More Cowbell]

Just curious, why do you agree with a smaller military?

IMO, thats like saying to a hunter, you should use a sling shot to kill the deer instead of a .270.

I respect your position, but don't confuse that with me thinking that its dumbfounding.

If you choose to explain or not, thats fine. I was just curious, as I don't hear a 'smaller' military advocated by even democrats. In fact, they've voted to expand the size of the military, and increase the military budget on a habitual basis.

I advocate an end to the ceaseless increases in defense spending, increases which often end up wasting our country's financial resources. Even more importantly, I am opposed to the senseless wasting of American lives with fighting in places where we don't need to be.

Do I want our country to be safe? Of course. The problem is that increases in funding to our nation's military have nothing to do with improving national security. They have everything to do with lining the wallets of defense contractors who stick their fingers in the backs of our lawmakers and make them say what they are told to. Our country's defense budget is ridiculously bloated by all this backscratching, and needs to be scaled back.