The sanctity of military spending

Glenn Greenwald tackles The sanctity of military spending.

"The U.S. spends almost as much on military spending as the entire rest of the world combined, and spends roughly six times more than the second-largest spender, China. Even as the U.S. sunk under increasingly crippling levels of debt over the last decade, defense spending rose steadily, sometimes precipitously."

"The US military budget was almost 29 times as large as the combined spending of the six 'rogue' states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) who spent $14.65 billion."

He also points to recent headlines that al Qaeda wants to attack us with WMDs and that (sarcastically) we need a strong military budget to deter them. I wish he had spelled out that of course they attacked us with our own planes when our military budget many times theres.