The media focuses instead on emails, sex, and Trump's various tweets.

The cost for military defense of the empire exceeded their resources. That was for the western half. The eastern half had more resources and more defensible borders, so survived another 1,000 years.

Our borders are defensible. We don't need troops all over the world to defend ourselves.

It is power projection to protect the interests of the rich. There is no defensive need for 1000 overseas US bases.

War on poverty, war on drugs, war on terror, war on democracy. When war describes opposition to concepts and categories the concrete reference disappears. And, on the ground violence is taking place in places that don't even exist in the minds of many US citizens.

A country at war with many other countries, a country at war with itself, a country at war with habits. All wasting dollars that could be far better spent improving the lives of US citizens and others.

Al Qaeda? Boko Haram? The Taliban? They're almost an invisible enemy compared to the nut with a gun who may be as close as your next door neighbor or the guy who shares the cubicle next to you or a student in your class. Who may snap at any minute.

as the others.