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[Labster]

I too am significantly more pro-military than most Democrats. I wouldn't cut military spending, but I would redirect it away from weapons programs to our actual soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and spacemen. (Ugh, can we go back to 4 branches already?) Cut the contractors and start paying the troops again.

Imagine what we could do it we tooled a lot of our military towards disaster response. For instance, Hurricane Maria was a disaster -- why not send in the military, a large deployment, to fix things up? Mobilize food, get power started, restore clean water supplies, steer civil engineering projects. And then apply that everywhere in the world -- you have a huge problem? We show up to help. Suddenly people welcome us rather than shoot at us.

I feel like America got lost in being the world's policeman. Or rather, we're being an American style policeman, whose aim is to beat up the thugs and shoot 'em if they look a little too black. Imagine if we tried world community policing instead, where we show up to help. Didn't plan on this being a pro foreign aid rant, but soft power is real, y'all.

And it's not like we can drop the stick either, that carrier group does make our very real presence known.