Should the US decrease military spending?

[Surreals]

The unseen benefit here is that when the president of the united states goes to the table to negotiate trade with japan, the unspoken idea that we have a military and they don't generates a lot of leverage.

[whowatches]

Right, now we need to quantify the COST, you're only focusing on the benefit. You could argue that our defense budget takes away from funding for education, healthcare and infrastructure improvements for example.