Did you know that the United States military is now bombing 6 different countries?  U.S. aircraft are conducting air strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and now Somalia.  There is a U.S. military base in over half of the countries on the planet and U.S. military spending is over 7 times larger than the military spending of any other nation on earth.  Yes, the United States will always need a strong military.  But with our national debt exploding at an exponential rate, can the United States really afford to continue to be the police of the world?

The more we bomb the more our enemies seem to multiply.  Does our government intend to occupy all of the countries of the Middle East eventually?  Do we really have to police the entire globe in order to feel secure at home?

Trying to be the police of the world is getting awfully expensive.  We have run up almost 4 trillion dollars more debt since Barack Obama was elected.  Many thought that Barack Obama would reduce our foreign entanglements, but instead he has greatly expanded them.

In an article posted on a major UK news source describing the new U.S. airstrikes in Somalia, Declan Walsh noted that this is now the 6th country that the U.S. military is bombing on a regular basis….

“Armed Predator and Reaper drones already operate in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, where they are controlled by the US military or the CIA.”

So are all of these airstrikes winning any “hearts and minds”?

Hardly.

Only 3 percent of the population of Pakistan supports our drone strikes in that country.

What we are doing is not working.

Barack Obama seems to have gotten a real taste for using the military.  He didn’t even bother to ask Congress when we started bombing Libya.

The way that Obama administration officials are talking, war with Syria could potentially be on the horizon.

Things are getting really crazy out there.  The U.S. government is absolutely drowning in debt and yet we think that we can push around everyone else in the world.

The U.S. government doesn’t even try to do much diplomacy in the Middle East anymore.  It seems like threats, ultimatums and bombings are the preferred tools.

The rest of the world is going to remember our arrogance and our ruthlessness.  When the United States needs help someday, the rest of the world might not be very inclined to give it.

The following are 16 reasons why the United States can no longer afford to be the police of the world….

#1 Prior to the beginning of the “War on Terror” our national debt was under 6 trillion dollars.  Today, it has more than doubled and currently sits at a whopping 14.3 trillion dollars (according to official statement) (truth be known, it is much, much higher than that).

#2 Today, the U.S. military is in nearly 130 different nations and it has a total of about 700 military bases around the globe.  It costs approximately 100 billion dollars each year to maintain these military bases.

#3 U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined.

#4 The United States already accounts for 46.5% of all military spending on the planet.  China is next with only 6.6%.

#5 If Bill Gates gave every penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for 15 days.

#6 When you throw in all “off budget” items and other categories of “defense spending” not covered in the Pentagon budget you get a grand total of somewhere around $1.35 trillion spent on national defense in 2010.

#7 The U.S. government borrows an average of about 168 million more dollars every single hour.

#8 The Pentagon currently gobbles up 56 percent of all discretionary spending by the federal government.

#9 Between 2007 and 2010, U.S. GDP grew by only 4.26%, but the U.S. national debt soared by 61% during that same time period.

#10 The cost for the first week of airstrikes on Libya was 600 million dollars.  Keep in mind that the opposition forces (against Quadaffi) in Libya has admitted that his forces contain large numbers of the same “al-Qaeda fighters” that were/are supposed to be shooting at American troops in Iraq.  So we are going broke and we are helping al-Qaeda take power in Libya at the same time.

#11 The total price tag for each F-22 fighter jet is approximately $350 million.

#12 Over the past decade, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost U.S. taxpayers several trillion dollars.

#13 If you went out today and started spending one million dollars every hour , it would take you 115 years to spend one trillion dollars.

#14 Since 2001, the total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan breaks down to several thousand dollars for every man, woman and child in the United States.

#15 Just one day of the war in Afghanistan costs more money than it took to build the entire Pentagon.

#16 The United States government is now responsible for more than a third of all the government debt in the entire world.

The U.S. is spending like a drunk sailor, and nearly all of the money is going into the pockets of members and friends of the Military Industrial Complex … while the American middle class is disappearing.

Occupying and bombing all of these nations is not making us safer.  In fact, it is creating more enemies every day.

If you support our troops, then you should want the U.S. government to stop trying to police the world.  We are getting a lot of young men and women hurt and killed and we are accomplishing nothing but destroying nations and making some elite people richer than God. The US Government is intentionally destroying the middle class and building an elite class of 1% at the top.  Virtually everything that George W. Bush and Barack Obama (and the Congress) have done and are doing is hurting America.

Trying to police the world is stupid.  Occupying and bombing countries all over the Middle East is a massive strategic mistake and it is creating a lot of new enemies.

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