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I think his point was we don't need to know beforehand where the waste is happening. The funding cuts will force them (the spenders) to figure that out.

What exactly are you afraid of, if we reduce the funding for US military by 90%? Fewer regime changes? Fewer regional conflicts? Fewer civil wars? Because US definitely has been behind some of those in the post Cold War era. What exactly is happening in the international arena, that wouldn't be happening without US interference?

P.S. You don't think there's waste? How about trillions of dollars spent on Iraq/Afganistan invasion, that ultimately led to destabilization of the entire region, deaths and destruction on a massive scale, and emergence of ISIS as a major source and inspiration of countless current and future terrorists worldwide?




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