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re: Budget Cuts Leave 101st Airborne Crippled

Posted on 3/9/17 at 12:43 pm to
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
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Posted on 3/9/17 at 12:43 pm to
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Remember the old saying from Teddy Roosevelt "Walk softly and carry a big stick"?

Do you understand what he meant?

We've still got the biggest sticks in the world.
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 3/9/17 at 12:48 pm to
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We've still got the biggest sticks in the world.


Sure we spend more money than everyone else. But what are we getting with that money? Where is it going? I can spend $50,000 restoring a classic car but if I leave it with a locked up engine I'm left with a 5,000 lb paperweight.

While our main rivals are modernizing and updating their sticks, ours appears to be rotting.

The benifit of a strong military is it makes waging war against the US unthinkable and thus the likelihood we get drug into a war is lowered.

The real danger of the US being drug into a war comes when a war against the US doesn't look unthinkable.

And as the dad of a 15 year old son, I want war to be as unthinkable as possible.
This post was edited on 3/9/17 at 12:50 pm
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