LOL...Like putting those brand new fighter planes into commission?? For what they cost to own and operate I feel we could have taken care of all our debt and had enough left over to help one or two of those struggling nations where terrorists are being produced at an alarming rate. There is a time where beaten down people, nations either die or get up and fight back.
At this point it is too late to reverse the anger and frustration of the emerging young nations, who have been taken advantage of, robbed blind and held hostage by the stronger and greedier countries. I personally feel, our taxes should go to Canadian social programs first, then to the poorer nations who need help to getting them on the pathway to prosperity. The world has more than enough to feed the world, but the delivery system does not exist to get it there. It would have been much better to help move the undeveloped societies into the twentieth century than to invade them for the assets they owned, rather than pay for them.
We are now paying a much higher price because some members of those societies, have not only pulled themselves into the scientific world but come into it with hate and revenge instead of what should have been gratefulness if we had lived up to our own stated values.