The Department of Defense is 99.9% offense, 0.1% defense. You can use the argument that the best defense is a good offense, but that doesn't really excuse the number of (largely unprovoked) attacks on and occupation of other sovereign nations.
Of course you can argue we shouldn't be involved in the Middle East, and there are some reasons to think we shouldn't be, but we can agree on that point and still believe the US should have the world's dominant military.
> but we can agree [that] the US should have the world's dominant military.
Who is "we"? It's not me.
Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but if you're (successfully) occupying a nation, it is by definition not sovereign anymore.