Reply #16: I would like this too

[TayTay]

Humanitarian aid and sustainable development are not what the Department of Defense and the Pentagon should be doing, are trained to do or are are responsible for doing in our system of government.

That is the purview of the US State Department. State is the branch of government charged with foreign assistance and what falls under "nation-building." Not the department of defense.

I want those things too. I am not sure I want to pay for them in a Defense paradigm. (How much am I over-paying for this by paying the wrong people to do it? )

Asking our troops to do nation-building is "mission creep." We have a branch of government that does this, we should use it.