http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008753860_opinc18maher.html
"The irony is that the U.S. has spent a fortune to have its military weakened. Defense spending increased by nearly 40 percent since 2000. Add on top of that the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on emergency supplementals to fight the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the yearly defense budget has almost doubled in the last decade...."
"The irony is that the U.S. has spent a fortune to have its military weakened. Defense spending increased by nearly 40 percent since 2000. Add on top of that the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on emergency supplementals to fight the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the yearly defense budget has almost doubled in the last decade...."
