[The Loan Arranger]

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....

[tlb]

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.

[neb52]

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.

[B4Ranch]

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.

[TChris]

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.