America should not conquer the world. Our media tells us we bring democracy to the world, yet instead we establish and support dictators. Our network of bases is too costly. The expense of our "defense" robs Americans of the reasonable future we would have had without these decades of defense expenditures. Over 80% of our industrial capacity is devoted to defense industries, half of the oil America uses is used by the military. At least 1/3 of congress own defense stocks. Others have interrests in going deeper into debt. We must bypass them. We must  end this system now, start with cutting back by half.