Originally Posted by crucifissio

I argue that with a 450billion$/year "defense" budget you could buy one non friendly country/year...avghanistan? no problem simply bribe the fuck out of everybody who is anybody with 450bil they will be your bitches...no need to send armies...pay local mercenaries...you would need to spend 50bil in bribes, say 200 billion to build shit like factories,hospitals,roads,schools and 200 bil in the economy and you have a whole country in your pocket all the "insurgents" and "rebels" on your pay roll...no deaths , no bullets , no "support our troops" propaganda...

saddam/bin laden/whoever simply but a 1billion $ bounty on his ass...or 10billion....watch the people around him take the $$$$ and hand over the country...aint nobody gonna mess with you after that because serious money talks in a most serious way...

seriously the 450billion/year the USA spends on "defense" is wasted...in the last decade 4.5 trillion has been wasted on making the world hate the fuck out of the USA...

OR for example take the 450 billion and buy more oil instead of "Securing it" with military force?


its such a waste of money the US army...