Gee, it's only been a few years

I find it hard to imagine how the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a few Senators and Congressmen are actually complaining about the cost of our wars. Aren't we the richest nation in the world? Isn't it our responsibility to destroy evil? Don't these people know that these wars are making us safer? Why should we stop spending now when we are winning the wars? We can have "guns and butter". Smarten up, people. Only a few thousand young people from the U.S. have died and fewer than 100,000 have been wounded. It's all for the greater honor and glory of our beloved country, the land of the free, the home of the brave.