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To: clintonh8r
England's colonial army is certainly not consistent with American republican traditions. And an argument can be made that Britain's decline started when they abandoned Conservative Salisbury's isolation policy and established a large expeditionary force to fight and die on the continent.

And it is true that there are modern weapons now that were not available in past centuries, but we also have modern means of defense not available in the past. Large armies are for the purpose of invading other countries. With our blessings of geography, we do not have to invade other countries to defend our land.

27 posted on 02/25/2014 4:36:27 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

“Large armies are for the purpose of invading other countries. With our blessings of geography, we do not have to invade other countries to defend our land.”

We didn’t have a large Army when we were invaded in 1812, in fact we were totally unprepared.

And today, we are being invaded by people who seek to “reconquer” what they think was “taken” from them.

The force structure that empERROR zero wants isn’t even enough to secure the border with mexico.


67 posted on 02/26/2014 10:21:11 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Politicians and diapers need to be changed for the same reason)
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