at any point , particularly given the crazy circular firing squad that ’s taking place now around Syria , where there are so many allies at cross - purposes with each other that any of us could be dragged into a larger , full - scale , and even nuclear , war at any moment . And it ’s important to remember , not only is this a trillion dollars which has been proposed — actually , is underway , a trillion dollars ’ worth of spending over the next decade and a half , approximately , on new nuclear weapons , but let ’s look at our whole war budget , which is half of our discretionary budget . Nearly half of your income taxes are going to pay for these absolutely catastrophic wars .