The US spends 3 times as much per person on defense as does Europe

This interesting article shows graphically how much the US spends on defense and how much of the world's freedom is shouldered by our country.

To me, the most telling is the statistic that shows that only 4% of Europe's soldiers are deployed throughout the year and that 16% of America's fighting men and women are deployed (some of our troops are deployed to Europe and are included in this total, I presume).

This is who is defending freedom world-wide.

I'd like to say that the rest of the world (England and Australia excepted) should pick up their share of the load, but that never has happened and may never happen.