Considerable attention has been paid this last week to our defense budget. House Democrats want to vote against it because of certain amendments that strip out their own additions to the gigantic document.The basic purpose of the military is to break things and kill people ( with an occasional side of disaster relief). The military may contain elements of social reform ( such as integration), but it is not designed as an instrument of social reform. The reform byproduct must never be confused with the basic purpose. To do so is devastating since it puts our nation’s security at risk.Neither ...