Money well spent if it keeps you pansies free from Communism. Sheesh, that was the last scare, wasn't it?
But anyway, we need enemies. Without the bogeyman we get soft and complacent and start thinking for ourselves. And, sides, po trash don;t need healthcare and the like - better to get 'em in uniform, off our streets and onto someone elses. and who really cares if they murder a bunch of gooks or ragheads - if the lives of blacks in New Orleans don;t matter shit, what hope for a bunch of brown folks in another country?
The way I see it, that money is like an insurance premium to keep the US as the world's most hated nation. And what's wrong with that? Shit, noone needs friends, do they? We've got all the culture the world will ever need, so the rest of the planet can go piss up a rope.