1. Defense spending for a long time has been the single largest portion of the US budget. Not now apparently but until very recently, yes.
2. You’d do well not to lump me in with the anti war crowd. I’ve done my time and have enough blood on my hands to know what I’m talking about. I have no problem with agressively defending my nation. Just because I don’t believe that military spending is sacrosanct, doesn’t mean I think we should just lay down our arms and die. I’m not some tree hugging, fishing eating hippy, and you’d do well to remember that.