Why should we vote for anyone in the primaries if they refuse to shout about this great injustice?

[ConservativeDemocrat]

96. I'm a conservative Democrat, not a conservative Republican

While I don't like having to pay taxes (who does?), I have no objection to paying taxes for a good cause.

Your question might be more correctly rephrased "Why are we spending money on the military that keeps the peace, when (except for a few places our military isn't in) the peace appears to be kept?" You are, in short, attacking the US military for doing too good a job.

I, and several hundred thousand Syrian refugees, disagree with you about whether it is "wrong" to keep the peace or not. You throw around the typical leftist shibboleths like "corrupt corporations" and "extraction rights", apparently not realizing that instability and war fuels exploitative extraction, as is what ISIS is doing with its wildcat oil wells, etc. (By the way, have you ever heard of the phrase "Blood Diamond"? Let me explain to you that the "blood" part doesn't exactly refer to that terrible awful corrupt "stable business environment" you're so against.)

And, to reiterate, because you obviously didn't understand this the first time. The US military's dominant position reduces, not increases, worldwide military spending. So while even if we were "literally taking wealth from our children's mouths" - which I doubt - (what do you think we do, feed them candy money as a staple of the US diet? No wonder we have so much childhood obesity!), actually poor children worldwide have more food on their plates because many nations aren't spending anywhere near as much on their own military, as they would feel they had to if we weren't on patrol.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community