(November 12, 2010 at 9:25 am)A Theist Wrote: The magical thinking is the left believing its own narrow make believe world view where the United States should set the example to the rest of the world, and disarm. It would be suicide for our nation to compromise national security.
Who is it that you fear will invade us or make open war with us? Al Qaida? Fighting them requires intelligence gathering, commando strike teams and careful diplomacy, not any army built to fight the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union is gone. The Cold War is over. Yet we've continued to escalate our defense budget since Reagan. It's like we're in an arms race with ourselves.
It's also a matter of raw numbers. You want to cut spending to reduce the debt? It aint gonna happen if you take defense off the table. The numbers just aren't there. There isn't 700 billion that you can cut out of the budget any other way.
Perhaps you'd prefer tax hikes? "Guns or butter" as the saying goes, a theist, you can't have both.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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