Economic globalism prevents actual conventional wars (with a little help from nuclear weapons). Clinton could have sent one ship to the Taiwan strait and everything would have been cherry. A guaranteed war with the west would have been economic suicide. The Gulf of Aden, similarly, does not require the amount of military spending we currently engage in. Not even close to that. Now, I am not saying we need to obliterate the entire military. That is unrealistic - at this point in our civilization, we still need it. What I am saying is that, in the United States, we waste too much money on defense, and that it would be much more practical to spend that money domestically. I would rather see that money used to put people through school. 

And scales can be deceptive - it doesn't seem to describe the percentage scale, but I assume that means percentage of unemployed? If we pulled that scale up to complete 100% rather than the 14% that allows the graph to skew, what you would see is a small bump of people managing to get a job while the grand majority of unemployed people enter poverty. That really creates a moral puzzle: What is worse? Fourteen people abusing the system, or eighty six people living on the streets?