robert bates has called the new designs for the second engine extravagant and unnecessary.could be said for large swaths of the defense budget, extravagant and unnecessary. budget tear measures aside, this is a time for foreign policy. for two long congress has fatd ended the defense department; while starving foreign policy agencies. robert bates himself once pointed out there are more members of military marching bands than servicemen in the foreign service. the result is a warped american foreign policy. it conceives of problems entirely in military terms, tries to present a military solution. as he came to the close of his presidency, dwight eisenhower said every dollar uselessly spent on military mechanisms decreases our total strength and, therefore, our security. it's time for a more balanced national security strategy. if the budget deficit forces that shift, so be it. we'll be right back. >>> i'd never been discriminated against. i'd never seen that hate or that fear or that ignorance. i've never seen anything like that before in my life, and i was scared. my mom a