I'm all for prioritising defence and security at the expense of other budgets, but how about we cut out the pointless xenophobia.
I'm not aware that there's any xenophobia (or racism) here. The recent posts have not displayed any deep rooted and irrational fear of foreigners, or expressed any notion that one nation or race is superior to another.
What has been expressed is a deep rooted scepticism in the judgement of a particular government policy and the lack of accountability and oversight of how tax payers' money is being spent overseas, when in fact there are plenty of pressing problems at home that could be eased with a fraction of that money was given to the likes of India and China with their own advanced weapons programmes.
So let's park up the outrage bus and ease up on politically charged accusations that will only send what is a logical, legitimate and reasonably well debated thread swiftly to closure. Let's leave them to the NAAFI forum on ARRSE and EGoat.