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Originally posted by Liquor Dealer
I can assure you it is worth defending. As to size, at the current time, our military is probably the smallest it has been in the last 50 years.
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You can't put out fire by adding more petrol to it. And that is exactly what is going on with American, (well let us generalize here because every other country is doing the same), the world policy : We need to be feeling safe, so let us build military and WMDs....
The cold war is over, but the mentality of Soviets/Americans has presisted and is applied by other smaller nations to justify cutting Heatlh care and School Education to build more Bunker Buster bombs.
Everyone blames the media/video games/movies/Jackass for violence and inducing the youth into doing horrible things, but they forget our military has and is far more damaging than the obviously easy targets stated above. It is indeed a sad day in American when Congress relaxes the manditory public school operation hours to cut costs (and not to mention school closures, classroom overcrowding), but then they turn around and give the military the go ahead to build more bombs to kill the threat that simply does not exist.
Now, I'm not suggesting or advocating elimiation of the military here. But just as there are limits to the NASA/DoE budgets, there aught to be limits on Dept of War, umm i mean Dept of Defense.