. >> kevin mier, i'm fon fused by all of the talk of our defense spending and what i see our military doing around the world. we are talking about returning to our bases in thailand and the fill fephilippines and vietnam 13,000 troops in kuwait. we are beefing up our troops in iraq and we have are special forces all over east and west africa and we are talking about missile bases in eastern europe and talking about opening new bases in panama, columbia and peru. it seems like a disconnect between a talk of military spending reduction which i'm tempted to addwhich is in line with the in creaticrease in our national debt. is my perception wrong? >> i think i would respectively disagree with your perception in this sense. let's start with the administrations national security strategy which is a shift in focus and that being a very important part of the world in terms of our economy, and the entire world's economy. in conjunction with that, the administration had said they are going to keep the focus on the middle east and rightly so. if you look at what is happening right now with iran

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