The USA's military police state budget.

Notice how none of the politicians dare touch the Pentagon budget. Ryan and Romney want to cut entitlements for the sick and elderly but the biggest entitlement of all is to the military/industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us against. Does the United States need seven nuclear carrier units when no other country has more than one? Our military budget is greater than all other industrial countries combined. This is madness. Does the USA have to station troops in seven hundred places around the world?
 Military strength does not make the country invulnerable to attack. 9/11 demonstrated that .a suicide squad of fifteen men could attack the country from within and turn the whole society on its ear, making this a police state. Because of those fifteen, of which perhaps only five knew the intention was to crash, not just hijack the planes, we must now be screened at airports, have a no fly list, have our mail (including this blog) snooped by the National Security Agency, etc. etc.
Historically, weapons developed at the end of one war become the weapon of choice for the next. In the Civil War the bombardment Napoleon developed was supplanted by the machine gun and the trench. So the French build the Maginot line which was useless against the airplane and the tank, which became the weapons of choice in WW II.  .But  WW II style carpet bombing of North Vietnam did not defeat them. The dog fight has been undone by missiles which are cheaper and now by drones which do not risk the lives of the pilots.
Eddie Rickenbacker (sp?) proved that the battleship of WW I was obsolete compared to the dive bomber. So now we have an obsolete fleet of aircraft carriers and billion dollar jet fighters when a band of near barbarians making roadside improvised bombs can stall our army in Afghanistan.
So why do we still spend so much money on obsolete military junk? The Pentagon budget is huge and all politicians are afraid of cutting it. The military is a sacred cow, and the military might of the country was useless to prevent the 9/11 attack.
. The future of warfare will be drones patrolling all the world's skies. So let's begin by taking troops home from Germany, Australia, and other places where they do not protect our freedom. Our greatest threat to our freedom is our own paranoid government that uses the mantra "to protect our freedom" while making wars against states that were not a threat.
Drones and cyber wars are the new weapons. Putting money into military hardware, e.g. tanks, planes, and ships is a waste of our precious resources.
Bring the troops home. Put them to work on our decaying roads and bridges.
Never stop asking the politicians why they don't cut the Pentagon budget.