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Originally Posted by Lil Dancer
I'm sure we are continuing to have threats, we've had them for years, maybe the public wasn't aware of them. However, I do believe that Bush played the fear factor and the whole concept of the "evil doers" in the last election. I sincerely hope the American people have wised up to that by now.
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Wised up to what?
Yes, the threats have been there for years. The prior administration under the pretext of cost-savings managed to cripple the American capacity to identify and deal with these threats on the other side of the oceans as we had been doing successfully for a couple of decades So, what we have today is the old "pay me now or pay me later" situation, and "later" is always much more expensive.
If the next administration, no matter which party gets it candidate to 1600 PA Ave, again takes the paring knife to the defense and intelligence budgets, it will be like the movie "Groundhog Day" and the 2020 generation will get the tab big-time. Will we ever learn....