no man, that money is going toward enforcing a trade agenda which serves only to further the interests of a tiny international clique of modern-day emporers
for example:
The countless billions spent in iraq, in an invasion launched almost immediately after iraq decides to begin selling oil in euros
the current furore over iran convienently coincides with iranian plans to create a forum for trading oil in euros, which would result in most OPEC nations switching to euro and undermining the dollar monopoly
The demonisation of venezuala as a 'rogue state'- when president hugo chavez of venezuala is pressuring OPEC (the forum of oil-producing countries) to end the monopolisation of oil consumption which manifested itself in the last decade as a ridicuolus deression of oil prices, thereby allowing prodigous US economic growth to fill the void left by the USSR. (and he is also arguing for... you guessed it, a switch to trading in euros)
The economic dominance of dollar is in effect a global empire. and i mean this in a very real, non-dramatic sense: it allows the US to draw resources and to set prices, to exploit cheap labour and exert influnce over any supposedly sovereign nation which trades in dollars, which until recently was just about every nation in the world. The enormous US 'defence' budget is in fact a budget for the suppression of dissent, in the same way any oppresive empire has used the military throughout history: romans, british, belgians just to use a few european examples, so it is not, IMO, used for my (i live in the UK, one of the few, i think 6 EU states outside the eurozone and globally seen as a US puppet) defence, but rather for the continuation of opression, the side effects of which you can see in any of the pictures displayed in this thread.