To: bruinbirdman
Europe, Japan and Canada have become effectively "demilitarized" because we are there to protect them from the "bad guys". We need to impose some sort of a tax on the other industrialized nations for all the defense we provide them from Islamofascism, North Korea, Communist China and all the other assorted aggressors that we keep at bay. As to this article, where have we heard that "peace dividend" claptrap before? Oh, yeah, the Democrats and RINOs about ten years ago....
2 posted on
12/16/2004 2:20:21 AM PST by
The Loan Arranger
(The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
To: The Loan Arranger
A quarter of the fleet is expected to be paid off as well. They need the savings to pay for the Eurofighter, for all the good that will do them.
3 posted on
12/16/2004 3:36:11 AM PST by
tlb
To: The Loan Arranger
Or via through treaties like NATO, member nations have to have a military budget of example 3-4%. Otherwise they cannot participate in the organization. Thus not being granted mutual protection from current member nations.
5 posted on
12/16/2004 4:14:07 AM PST by
neb52
To: The Loan Arranger
We may need a loan if we are going to continue protecting the world....... Socialism is cutting back what we can afford to spend on the troops.
6 posted on
12/16/2004 4:26:10 AM PST by
B4Ranch
(((The lack of alcohol in my coffee forces me to see reality!)))
To: The Loan Arranger
We need to impose some sort of a tax on the other industrialized nations for all the defense we provide them from Islamofascism, North Korea, Communist China and all the other assorted aggressors that we keep at bay.No, what will happen is what has always happened. We will shed American blood to defend them and save their country, use American money to pay to rebuild their country and continue giving them foreign aid long after it's needed, and in return receive successive generations of ungrateful American haters who aren't taught about our sacrifices for them in their history classes.
We'll keep doing it anyway, because it's the right thing to do.
10 posted on
12/16/2004 7:25:55 AM PST by
TChris
(Most people's capability for inference is severely overestimated)
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