Sen. Jim DeMint was on Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox Business 1/18/12
Judge Napolitano: “Will you admit that Ron Paul has a point that maybe we should be concerned about nation building and military adventurism on one hand as opposed to legitimate defense spending on the other before we are forced to by the bankers and the people to who we owe all this money?”
Sen. Jim Demint: “Yeah, it’s not only a point, it’s true. If we spread ourselves too thin around the world were not gonna be able to defend the homeland, particularly with the level of debt that we have right now. Our Joint Chiefs of Staff for our military have said our biggest national security problem is our debt. It’s foolish for us to think that we can have military bases all over the world, spend billions of dollars when we’re going broke back home. It just isn’t gonna happen. So the best way to defend our country is to move towards a balanced budget, concentrate our defense capabilities back here at home and make sure we can defend our interests around the world but we’re not in a position now to do what we’ve been doing over the last several decades.”