Robert Gates spoke this weekend about the need to curtail military spending.  Kudos to him for bringing up this quite unpopular view.  Military spending has been discribed as the REAL third rail of American politics, so Gates needs to be praised for even bringing it up. Gates eluted to "powerful people" that would be against cutting military spending.. that may be the understatement of the year.

 I have written before about the disgusting bloated military spending, so I wont belabor the point too much in this post.  There can be no real spending decrease/ deficit reduction in this country unless out unnescessary bloated military budget is addressed. One reason I cannot take teabaggers seriously is that none of them seem to want to address military spending as Bill Maher recently pointed out.  It seems they would sooner cut Grandma's social security and medicare than touch military spending.  We need as a nation to realize that spending 1/2 the whole world's military budget is a) bankrupting us b) makes us into the hugest warmonger assholes in the world, which leads to more people hating us, which leads to more terrorism, which leads to more military spending and saber rattling by the chicken hawks in Washington.. etc. etc.

 If you cut the US military budget in half, we would still be the biggest military spenders in the world. In fact, if you cut it by 3/4s we would still be the biggest military spenders in the world... by quite a few billions.    Is this the legacy we want to leave to future children?  Bankrupting them so we can be warmongers and world police?