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He vows cuts in overt military spending and a stepped-up focus on the Asia-Pacific region as well as increased use of illegal drone strikes that have targeted civilians, reporters, and alleged "militants" in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and throughout the Horn of Africa.
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"He’s talking about, let’s keep the military budget at 4 percent of gross domestic product, as if it was some sort of entitlement program for the Pentagon... He would spend something like $6.5 trillion over 10 years, which would be about a trillion-and-a-half more than the Obama plan... If he’s not going to raise taxes, it’s going to come straight out of domestic programs, which are already being hit quite substantially." More
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