Poor ROI might be better expressed by examining the defense budget itself, particularly when one remembers that the US defense budget is 46% of the military exp

Poor ROI might be better expressed by examining the defense budget itself, particularly when one remembers that the US defense budget is 46% of the military expenditures of the ENTIRE WORLD. http://static.globalissues.org/i/military/10/country-distribution-2009.png http://static.globalissues.org/i/military/10/country-distrib... Also consider that defense spending is 51% of discretionary spending and almost $500 billion more than any other discretionary spending category. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budg... Imagine if the company you worked for (or started) decided it was going to spend 51% of it's discretionary operational expenditures on a security system and security guards, yet there were furious debates about whether or not to provide health insurance to all employees? Also remember that the likelihood of being a victim of terrorism is less than that of winning the lottery.