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Originally Posted by Guest
Doesn't this go in accordance with the need for a smaller government? The military is part of the government and if not as many troops are needed, it makes sense to discharge instead of reupping the troops.
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Yup. We should be pulling the totally and completely not needed troops out of Germany and Japan and all the non combatant or threat of combat areas in the last 30-40 years.
Hell we declared the war was over in Iraq and pulled everybody out. Why not pull out of the other places where the threat is non existent?
And then when someone decides to take us on we can scaramble to see what we can salvage.
We did not become a world super power by being able to grow more corn than anybody else in the world.
Teddy Roosevelt had the right idea with carrying the big stick.
The other super powers, Russia and China are not cutting back. Just the opposite. They do not have the same political conflicts internally that we do.
Hawkish. Damn right. Remain the number one super power. Second and third place are for the other guys....not the USA!