That's no way to fight Communism! Also, this runs the risk of not having any active conflict to motivate military spending with. More seriously, prevention is

That's no way to fight Communism! Also, this runs the risk of not having any active conflict to motivate military spending with. More seriously, prevention is a strategy that is complicated to apply to existing conflicts, and those are the ones we have a most pressing need to resolve. I do agree that "bomb more" doesn't work very well.