Here's my crazy voodoo Liberal maths, using the source you provided.Dude are you insane? Money is a joke metric?? How did Obama scale anything back if he spent MORE money on the war effort? What you just said makes no sense. That's what you consider scaling back? Some weird liberal logic.
I suppose 'scaling back' also involved meandering into Libya and Syria, right?
Bush increased spending while Obama decreased it. Yet Obama still spent more than Bush overall. Sorry to go all voodoo on you. You're the one who mentioned total spending, which is a joke metric. Like I said, Obama would have had to cut back spending faster than Bush increased it, in order to come out ahead by your standard.
The important metric is that Obama decreased spending, both in absolute terms and relative to Bush. Same applies to Clinton. That's the best indication of someone's commitment to militarism.