On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:49:23 GMT, zadoc wrote:

But after the Second World War, under the pressure of the Cold War,
expenditure on the military grew, grew so enormous in fact, that half
of all Federal spending was for the Department of Defense. And it is
of course, kept going. As some of you may know, the Brookings
Institution actually did a retrospective study of spending by the
United States on military weaponry, and on the military, and concluded
that in current dollar terms, the United States since the Second World
War has spent roughly $24-trillion on the military, with roughly
one-third of that alone going just for nuclear weapons.

The neocons may have spent more dollars (not constant dollars)
on their wars than WW-II cost ....
--
Cliff