Do Dems have to pledge to spend gazillions on defense to get elected?

[yurbud]

This seems to be the drift of candidates and I even got this in a fundraising letter from Ted Kennedy.

It seems like we have two good arguments for safely spending less:

• Even if the war on terror is "real," submarines, tanks, and B-2s are less useful than Predator drones, spies and special forces in chasing around bands of stateless organizations.
  
  
• The Iraq resistance shows us how UNLIKELY we are to be invaded by someone else. If a much smaller country can hold us, the worlds only superpower, at bay, what are the chances anyone could successfully invade the United States? Even if we had NO military, every yahoo has a gun and even if they didn't, we could drop bowling balls off of overpasses and make any occuppiers life miserable.
  
  The only reason another country would attack us is in self-defense or to blunt a coming attack.
  
  At some point, we have to put this issue in perspective or soon we'll be building death stars to protect us from shoplifters.