Donald Trump in Healing the Soul of America

On Foreign Policy: OpEd: Dismantled State Department to fund corporate advocacy

World military spending totaled more than $1.6 trillion in 2015, and the U.S. accounted for 37% of the total. While no one would argue that our military budget is out of proportion with the resources by which we seek to prevent the need for military action. The budget of our Defense Department, for instance is $600 billion, 24 times more than the $26.5 billion allotted to the Department of State. In the Trump administration, as a matter of fact, we are dismantling many of the diplomatic functions of our State Department and replacing them with economic advocacy projects for U.S. corporations.

In truth, our military budget is more an expression of the financial appetites of our military-industrial complex than it is a truly wise response to admittedly very real threats.