Framing the issue: Rupublicans and defense

One of the biggest clubs that the Republicans use against Democrats is that we are "soft on defense".
I was thinking about that and how so many Democrats today continue to support the military-industrial sector by increasing already mind-bogglingly huge spending bills year after year. This has got to stop people!
In modern times, conventional warfare, fought on the battlefield, resolves almost nothing! After Iraq, do we really think we are going to go to war against Iran, Syria or North Korea? If not, then who are we defending ourselves from? Russia, China, Europe?
The fact is that the United States is very vulnerable to an attack, but not a conventional one and not a terrorist attack, contrary to Republican dogma.
The U.S. is frighteningly vulnerable to a financial attack, and the Republicans are busily strengthening our real rivals every day.

Whenever the United States runs are deficit and sells billions of dollars in bonds to China, they open our economy up to a debilitating shock from a country with which we have serious ideological differences.
If China were to attack Taiwan right now, I would argue that the president would be unable to react with anything but rhetoric, because they own too much of a stake in our economy! In the real measure of strength in the 21st Century, economic strength, and trade alliances, China grows stronger and the United States weaker, every time a spending bill is approved by the Republicans.
It time to stop turning a blind eye to this! We need to stop wasting our money on weapons that have proven useless in advancing and protecting freedom (isn't that what they are supposed to be for?)
It is time to arm ourselves against tyranny and give ourselves economic security. The war on terror will not be won with jet fighters! Stop pouring money down this hole of waste and graft.