Original sentence: As of June 5, 2007 the US spends roughly 1 trillion dollars maintaining its military empire
Edited sentence: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas said at the June 5, 2007 Republican debate (on CNN) that the US spends almost 1 trillion dollars a year to maintain the American military empire and this spending, which he considers wasteful, could have been better spent on a better education system and medical and technological research that improves the lives of everybody.Many people both believe in a strong military, but that individual operations, such as the invasion of Iraq, is an unwise and expensive act.Others believe that while preventive war is unethical, there is still a belief in deterrence theory or compellance, the latter being a theoretical concept from Thomas Schelling.There is a wide range of opinion on military spending