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    Fact Checking Sullivan

    Conn Carroll

    August 14, 2008 at 4:31 pm

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    At the tail end of an extremely long diatribe that is completely not worth reading, Andrew Sullivan asserts that America’s “military consumes more and more resources.” This is a common trope on the far left and is simply not true. Below is a chart showing national defense spending as a percentage of GDP since 1962. As you can see, at 4 %of GDP, defense spending is 1.5 percentage points of GDP below the 45-year historical average and well below Cold War and Vietnam War levels: If Sullivan wants to know … More

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