[allmendream]

Yes, paying for your own defense IS expensive. But paying for the World’s defense has made us the master of the globe, and we can well afford it as long as our vibrant capitalist market doesn’t become as moribund as Europe.

Our troops being in Germany and Korea and Iraq is a good thing for the U.S.A. for Germany for Korea and for Iraq; and good for the world.

We will leave Iraq when and if Iraq asks us to go. And that will not mean we will leave the Middle East in some Ron Paul fit of isolationism, we would move our troops to Kuwait or Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan.

[Grunthor]

“But paying for the World’s defense has made us the master of the globe, and we can well afford it as long as our vibrant capitalist market doesn’t become as moribund as Europe.”

Seen the stock market lately?

What were gas prices like in say...spring of ‘99?

What are you going to do with your “rebate” check?

Our economy is not “vibrant” as you describe it. It could regain past heights but the givernment is going to need to cut spending across the board in order to make that happen.