Cancer vs. War

What is to be said of a nation that spends hundreds of billions more on killing, than on finding a cure for cancer?
Tragically we all know of someone who has died of cancer. Try then to make sense of the following. The National Cancer Institute's budget is less than 5 billion dollars, while the military budget, including the cost of Iraq and Afghanistan, is about 647 billion. The National Cancer Institute, the agency responsible for research and finding a cure for cancer, had its budget cut this year, while military spending escalated at unparalleled increases. That means that almost 50 % of your tax dollars finance death, destruction, and war, while 0.17 % of your tax money is spent on finding a cure for cancer. Is this your priority? What have you done about it? What kind of a nation have we become?