The government is without resources of their own. Every dollar in the possession of the government is ours. Do you wish to defend Japan? South Korea?  Germany? Do you want to provide military training and support to any nation and, at a later date, fight with that very nation when their government changes hands as we have in Iraq and Afghanistan?

It is time for the United States to take a stand and withdraw our defensive support from other nations. Those nations will, upon our withdrawal, be forced to spend their own resources and endanger the lives of their own sons and daughters to defend themselves. Those same nations will, upon using their own resources, be more likely to come to diplomatic solutions with opposing nations. It is time for America to defend itself. It is time for America to sell off its foreign military bases, return the money to the Treasury, and recall our sons and daughters from the ends of the Earth.

While independents are in favor of a strong defense for the United States, as are the Republicans and Democrats, the independent position is that all necessary funding for the new programs being implemented in response to the 11 September 2001 disasters can easily be retrieved from the existing budget by eliminating our defense of other nations, our engagement in foreign "peacekeeping" and "monitoring" missions, and our support of UN programs. Those foreign efforts absorb billions of US tax dollars and risk the lives of US servicemen and servicewomen. It isn't that Democrats and Republicans view national defense differently than independents, it is simply a question of independents believing in the Constitutional requirement that we defend ONLY the United States--not the world.

More on the defense budget and defense spending quagmire

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