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The United States maintains the largest
and most powerful military in history. U.S. warships dominate the
oceans, its missiles and bombers can strike targets on every continent,
and hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops are stationed overseas. Every
few years the U.S. sends soldiers, warships and warplanes to fight in
distant countries. Many countries go to war, but the U.S. is unique in
both the size and power of its military and its propensity to use it.
The costs of being a military superpower and waging wars around the
world are high. Because hundreds of billions of dollars are funneled to
the Pentagon every year, the government skimps on providing for basic
needs of people here at home. Cutbacks in social programs have caused
far more devastation in this country than any foreign army ever has.
But the costs of U.S. foreign wars are more than simply economic. They
include the lives of the soldiers who never come home.
Foreign wars also bring bloody retaliation against the U.S.--such as the
terrorist attacks that took the lives of thousands of people at the
Pentagon and the World Trade Center.
Despite the high costs in money and lives, the government seems
determined to keep going to war, putting us all in harm's way!
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