As an Indian I think you and your countrymen (used in the gender-neutral sense) do have the right to criticize/guide your country's spending. And with respect

As an Indian I think you and your countrymen (used in the gender-neutral sense) do have the right to criticize/guide your country's spending. And with respect to the US's military budget, you have to think of it as our form of welfare. Most of that budget goes to overpaid company executives, managers and maybe even engineers. Our economy would be in tatters without that spending (or maybe we're in tatters now but would be naked otherwise). I'd love to see more of our budget employ people doing useful things (directly employ I mean) ... and space science seems like a good long-term investment. So I'll cheer for India's success and lament its problems along with you, but I haven't a right to dictate its policy.