[Sid Rich]

Is it bad that the Founding Fathers distrusted standing armies and entangling alliances?

[discostu]

It's not bad, it just doesn't work anymore. With faster than sound airplanes the world just got too damn fast to be sitting around with no army until somebody actually shoots at you. The Founding Fathers were absolutely right, but they're not anymore, it's too easy for a fast attack to be too devastating now. We need the standing army, and we need other countries on the enemies target list, preferably countries that are easier for the enemy to attack so they can be a buffer.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Is it bad that the founding fathers distrusted standing armies and entangling alliances?"

I was just summarizing what I think are the main ideas of the Buchanan faction; I wasn't commenting one way or the other on whether I agreed with them.