After World War II, the general who led our troops in a resounding defeat of the Nazis, came home and started building our interstate highways.
He supported the Marshall Plan, which helped Europe, including Germany, from starving due to destruction of both farms and the means to get the food from the farms to the people.
He helped Japan recover and become a modern democracy.
He helped our former enemies so that they would become our friends.
He warned that the military industrial complex would continue to lobby for expensive and unnecessary weapons systems.
Russia loves to foster fighting in poor countries. When poor countries can not provide upward mobility for its citizens, some citizens become so frustrated that they embrace terrorism. A small amount of foreign aid can bring peace and emerging prosperity.
By cutting the budget of the State Department, much intel about what other countries are doing and saying will be lost.
The proposal to spend hundreds of billions on defense and nothing on US infrastructure makes only defense contractors rich. It does not help the interior of the country repair and build bridges, roads, DAMS.
The new administration has a love affair with military men.
Even military men are saying that the priorities in the possible new budget are stunningly incorrect.
This is not just about expensive equipment. What is the life of a Navy Seal worth?
Foreign aid and intelligence based diplomacy can make it less necessary to expend the lives of our spies, our soldiers, our sailors, our pilots and our diplomates.
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