Yep ... us "Muricans" generally spend more than we earn and are not very good at choosing what exactly we spend all that money on. To be a bit more serious, we

Yep ... us "Muricans" generally spend more than we earn and are not very good at choosing what exactly we spend all that money on. To be a bit more serious, we've made a lot of promises to other countries that, unless we cancel treaties, we should stand by (I actually believe in keeping your word). On the other side of that coin, just because you've got to have a huge military doesn't mean you're allowed to invade arbitrary countries (Iraq, Afghanistan). It's theoretically possible to be a super-power without being imperial but think about the type of people that enter politics.