Nirvana that involves weakening the US.
Nope, not even close. My ideal is to leave things better than i found them, and i want my kids and their kids to have the best place on earth to live on. War is usually an expression of one economic pressure or another, fueled by religion.
Can you honestly say with a straight face that we are not totally capable of defending ourselves, in the literal sense, about 70 times over what is necessary? Which country's aircraft carriers and landing craft could even get in our hemisphere? We basically occupy about 70% the globe and protect our friends from uncivil stuff just for practice.
Weak, we are not. Cutting one overkill project for several billion bucks wouldn't chap my ass one bit. We are still the global power and the smart thing to do would be to not bankrupt ourselves with the military load, but adjust our dominance to mere several multiples of overkill, and ensure the longer lifespan of the republic. Just sayin'