Wikipedia says that the US spent about 700 billion dollars on their military in 2010. 700 billion... That's hypothetically 350 dollars each if you'd give it to the 2 billion poorest people in the world. A dollar a day, barely enough to get through but still. Imagine what good it could do instead of these stupid "wars".
Stop with your hippy shit and think logically. We will not downgrade are military.
It is not only for our defense but is a deterrent for the rest of the world to begin conflict. Africa is VERY RICH in resources infact one of the richest! It just is poorly governed.
They have more valuable resources and fertile farm land then the rest of the world combined.
But large company's stemming from the Colonial philosophy still exist and it's a big shit hole problem.
They need to Tariff all exports and Tax more efficiently and they could easily dig there asses out of the dirt sheds.
But no one is willing to step in and do that. Every one else benefits from Africa being at the bottom of the scale.
If they begin to take from the top then those of us at the top will begin to tip.
We don't want that.