What Role Should The U.S. Play In World Defense?

Part I of Essay
? 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 up several ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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 ....