I get your intent, but there's also the political problem in a democracy. How hard is it to convince a majority of people that buying more death machines is a

I get your intent, but there's also the political problem in a democracy. How hard is it to convince a majority of people that buying more death machines is a good use of their money? Now how hard to convince a majority that feeding the world is a good use? Now how hard to convince them that building schools is a good use? I'll just remark that the answer to that last is why Afghanistan was controlled by the Taliban in the first place (after the warlords the US supported bickered amongst each other for a while).