US military spending

The US spends more on its military than all of the other countries in the world combined. So, today as part of his "change" agenda, Obama announced a record increase in military spending to $708 billion in 2011 defense budget. 

This, in a POST-Cold War era. 

Meanwhile, a bunch of semi-literate, cave-dwelling, barefooted former goatherders armed with nothing but old fashioned rifles and granade launchers have fought the US and the combined NATO alliance to a standtill in Afghanistan so that NATO is thinking of suing for peace behind the US's back.

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[Rehmat]

According to the Christian Science Monitor (2004) - Israel has received US$1,6 trillion in aid since 1970. According to professor Michel Chossudovsky in his article "Five Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States" (February 12, 2010) stated that the Zionist entity receives US$3 billion in military aid each year.

Nukes – Hoax and Reality
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/nukes-hoax-and-reality/

[Pirouz]

Just in case you missed it Cyrus:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LB02Ak01.html

Tom does it again. Hilarious and really sad at the same time. I'm a little older than you, so I remember when this movie was released.

"Read it and weep", as the saying goes.

[Ray]

Cyrus,
I am aware that US gives massive financial aid to Israel on a regular basis. I bet a lot of US citizens who've lost their jobs and maybe even a roof over their head in the past couple of years, be interested to know how much financial aid has been given during the worst recession since the great depression!! I could not find any data on this but then again I didn't try hard enough. That said, I came across this document http://www.rense.com/general31/rege.htm which was pretty eye opening.