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Originally Posted by Robbie
Our military is bigger than the next top ten countries COMBINED. It's pure greed at work.
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Did you just pull that number out of a hat?
China has 2.2 million men under arms, where as the US has only 1.4. India, btw, has 1.3 million men under arms.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Nobody is going to invade the United States Of America anytime soon. It's supposed to be "Defense", but once the big defense contractor companies got really involved it has become nothing but free money for them.
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When was the last time the US was invaded? 1812. (Yeah, Japan landed a small force on some islands in Alaska, but that was not a serious force.)
Who is going to invade us? China? Russia? Iran?
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Originally Posted by Robbie
I'm personally sick and tired of all this pre-emptive horseshit in both civilian life right here in the U.S. and our military adventures abroad.
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While I agree with you to an extent, but you have to look at the larger picture. It's not like we are pouring money down a hole and not getting anything back from it. We are. Computers, GPS, television... The Internet itself was a DOD project paid for with tax dollar moneys. (We sure got our money's worth there huh?)
We do need to pull back. We don't need all of these forces in Europe, Korea.... In the event we need to, the US can have boots on the ground in force pretty quickly anywhere in the world.