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Originally Posted by Kalibah
I think a draft was more likely under Kerry- being that Dems started the bill
Or wait Would we rather have Clinton - a firefight and we back outta Somalia- that sends the wrong message... We arent a Spain
I'd trust Bush with my life- He'd go nuclear before we had a draft
Its like Reagan, you wnana President that acts so crazy- they think he'd push the button
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Well....we're gettin' to see, pretty quickly, where the real threats to
America's future are coming from......from the white house, and from the
heeartland. Uncannily similar to Macnamara's description of General Curtis
LeMay's attitude during the Cuban missle crises (see the film, "The Fog of
War"). And.....when Powell resigns from Statee, just disband the department,
and recall all the ambassadors......ain';t gonna need 'em.....anymore!
Reagan ????? Reagan......oh...you must mean this Reagan.....
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Weinberger Doctrine <a href="http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/mil/html/mh_057800_weinbergerdo.htm">the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks at Beirut airport on October 23, 1983, a humiliating disaster in which 241 marines perished</a>
The Weinberger Doctrine was first made public by U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger on November 28, 1984. In a speech entitled "The Uses of Military Power" delivered before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Weinberger presented the doctrine in response to an ongoing debate between the secretary of defense and the Pentagon on the one hand, and Secretary of State George P. Shultz, the State Department, and members of the National Security Council on the other, concerning the presence of American troops in Lebanon and their contemplated use in Central America (in the civil wars in Nicaragua and San Salvador).
The proximate cause for the speech was the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks at Beirut airport on October 23, 1983, a humiliating disaster in which 241 marines perished. This ill-fated U.S. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon had been undertaken despite the vigorous opposition of the secretary of defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who argued that its purpose was never clearly defined and that the chaotic, violent situation in Lebanon could not be brought under control by any outside force. When dropped into the middle of this turmoil, the marine contingent would only, they insisted, become a convenient and prominent target for the various factions in the civil war.
The Weinberger address followed President Ronald Reagan's decision to withdraw the U.S. Marines from Lebanon and was therefore intended to summarize the lessons learned from this debacle in the hope that similar improper uses of American forces could be prevented in the future.
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