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? What role should the United States play in World Defense? To some, this may seem like a simple question to answer, and to others it may be a question that can be debated and talked about for hours at end. This question which I am dealing with has probably come u ....

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.... American people how much money it spent on the protection of our country since last year alone. The amount? A whopping $4 billion dollars. Since we won our independence from Great Britain in 1776, we as a nation have been involved in 5 major wars since the turn of the century, and ask yourself this question: How many of these wars directly affected our own national security, and put the American people as a whole at great risk? All of these wars have been fought on other soil, the United States has not seen a war on our own soil since the Civil War, which ended in 1865. This was an internal U.S. affair, which as you know, no foreign country got in ....