Unlike welfare, national defense is indeed legitimate. However, the warhawks are not doing anything to advance security and stability with their foolish internationalism and bloated military spending bills. Instead, they have made America countless enemies and manufactured crisis after crisis to keep the war business booming. These bloodthirsty warmongers are determined to re-ignite the Cold War. As of right now, the leading candidate for mortal enemy of the United States is China.
China bashing is at an all time high in conservative circles.
We are told that America should not trade with China and reap the economic benefits of their large market because they are Communists and hostile to the United States. However, establishing trade links has historically eased tensions between countries. Taiwan, we are told, is in our vital national interests to protect and defend. This inflated rhetoric is absolute nonsense. It is not in the United States' interest to send a generation of young Americans to fight a war with the world's most populous nation over Taiwan.