[MrEdd]

Free trade is fine.

Intellectually, I must require you to show that any country can manage the required logistics to win a war with unrestricted free trade. Manufacture and supply of all food, equipment,and fuel in quantity delivered where needed.

If you cannot, then you do not have a defensible position.

A position which requires peace as an assumed fact is not defensible.

Years ago, a Navy veteran asked Walter Williams (who was subbing for Rush) how things would pan out in war if the entire steel industry moves to Asia. Williams kept attempting to restate the question to mean something other than military logistics.

I doubt you have an answer either.

Any person pushing unrestricted free trade with no answer to this deserves and will receive ridicule from thoughtful conservatives.

Think this through before you react in haste.

[cripplecreek]

I find it odd that America managed to struggle through all those years before firmly attaching our lips to the socialist groin of the folks who run the WTO.

Oh where would we be without them keeping us under control?

[discostu]

The answer is actually pretty simple, if we need it for a war we put it back. Prior to WWII our industrial sector really wasn’t that great, we were still mostly an agrarian society, but then came the war, and the war industrialization.

Of course the other punchline is that countries in trade with each other very rarely go to war. When your economy is dependent on country X blowing up country X is survival negative.

[Cheap_Hessian]

"Years ago, a Navy veteran asked Walter Williams (who was subbing for Rush) how things would pan out in war if the entire steel industry moves to Asia. Williams kept attempting to restate the question to mean something other than military logistics."

So you are also advocating the elimination of unions, right?

[Figment]

if

The supposedly former navy nitwit was basing his argument on “if”

[dr_who]

Intellectually, I must require you to show that any country can manage the required logistics to win a war with unrestricted free trade. Manufacture and supply of all food, equipment,and fuel in quantity delivered where needed.

You know, our country has fought several wars since Nafta and the wto. "Unrestricted" free trade? Just what are you arguing for? That our country should be prepared to invade and occupy half of Europe and africa at the drop of a hat? Ever thought about what effect that would have on our standard of living at home?

A position which requires peace as an assumed fact is not defensible.

You were born in the wrong millenium. You would have loved Sparta.

[ari-freedom]

“Intellectually, I must require you to show that any country can manage the required logistics to win a war with unrestricted free trade. Manufacture and supply of all food, equipment,and fuel in quantity delivered where needed.”

But if we are relying on tariffs on foreign trade to fund our military, we will also run into major problems.
1) it won’t be enough to fund it
2) foreign countries will have easy veto power over our military actions since we are relying on them for revenue.
3) other companies that use steel and other taxed goods will also move overseas. The economy will shrink and that will result in even lower revenue for the military.