Fact is we have not used our country's resources in the best manner possible.  Give peace a chance was a popular chant back in the sixties and it is just as relevant today.  Bombing people half way around the world does not make us safe.  It only creates hatred which will be directed back at us or our allies.  If you really want to avert such attacks, then find a sollution to the Israel palestine problem.  Clinton came close in his closing days of his administration but then GW came in and ignored it.  9/11 was the result.  Rather than supporting tin dictators around the world we should be supporting freedom.  I am frankly tired of having to pay taxes to feed the worlds largest military industrial complex.   We are getting weaker by the day because we ignore real problems while fighting imaginary fears.  Doesn't it bother you at all that the United States has fallen behind?  I am sure you are aware that Canada is ahead of us in percapita income?  Why do you think this is?