"Peace through strength" or entitlements. Good luck explaining to Grandma that her SS and Medicare needs to be cut for the defense budget.
Rand hints that he is as nutty has his Dad.
Peace through Strength always works.
If we keep spending and intervening, we wont have any strength left or peace in a generation. There comes a time when the best course is to husband national strength for the long haul. Eisenhower saw this coming.
Strong defense, not trailing around the ME placing our military on 5 and 6 more tours in yet another damn theater. Rand is right. It will not happen. People are ten years sick of our sons & others being thrown in without mercy.
Forget it.
Rand’s right.
Bankrupt nations can’t pay for a military structure larger than the rest of the non-bankrupt world combined.
peace through strength is the right idea. Peace through poverty, not so much. It is possible to be more efficient and not have a “wimpy” foreign policy. The idea that questioning a military budget alone makes you an appeaser is nonsensical.
In reading Rand’s article it does offer a contradiction. If Romney can demonstrate to the Congress he is arming the right factions, then under Rand’s own criteria, this would be acceptable. I am not opposed to arming Rebels in Syria as long as they are friendly to the US and that they seize power after Assad is toppled. In fact, such a Regime would tilt the balance of power in the mid-east for 30 years. Then somehow, we need to get back into Iraq and contain the Shia as we did before Obama pulled out.
"Peace through strength" or entitlements. Good luck explaining to Grandma that her SS and Medicare needs to be cut for the defense budget.