My "two further sentences" were right on the beam. You're just being deliberately obtuse--an argument technique that is wearing a bit thin from several posters.

There is no way in hell that before September 11 a surplus would have been spent on anything whatsoever that would have helped to protect us from terrorism. The Clinton administration gutted the military, gutted our intelligence apparatus, and came within a hair of gutting our medical system. To hear Hillary talking about the "surplus" (which is fictional in any case) as though, if she's had the chance, she would have spent it on anything that would have helped defend our country, is infuriating.