Black Bishop Launches Brutal Attack Against Democratic Party

[Plane]

Sure it will work, it doesn't fail to work just because you would rather it didn't.

If you disbelieve gravity do you fly home?

President Bush shrank the military, President Clinton shrank the military, President Bush II shrank the military.

We will probly never again have the aircraft or ships in numbers like we did in the 80's.

The military men in uniform decrease by 30% and you don't notice?

[sirs]

Ryan's plan will not work and nothing you can say will cause it to work.

Dammit, because Xo and his 99% wrong says so....end of debate

Increasing the size of the military is enlarging the government.

The military is one of the PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT.  Not how many ounces in a big gulp, you're allowed to have.  That's the ONLY part of Government that can constitutionally "enlarge"

[sirs]

Sure it will work, it doesn't fail to work just because you would rather it didn't.

If you disbelieve gravity do you fly home?

LOL.......touche'     

[Xavier_Onassis]

So a president could draft the entire population into the military, and he would still be doing his duty.

There is no touché.

[sirs]

So a president could draft the entire population into the military, and he would still be doing his duty.

Yea, like that'd ever pass congress, or be supported by the public, or Republicans for that matter       The issue was "enlarging the government".  The answer was what's constitutionally supported and what's not

There is no touché.

LOL....it was a brilliant touche', by Plane yet again.  Your ignoring it doesn't make his point go away

[Xavier_Onassis]

ZZZZZZING! it went away, never to be seen again.

[sirs]

Says Mr uncredible.  Ignore to your heart's content

[Plane]

So a president could draft the entire population into the military, and he would still be doing his duty.

There is no touché.

You are pitching them in from far left field there.

The military has been shrinking, shrinking, shrinking in real terms our military is a third smaller than it was in the late eightys, a lot of the military equipment we are useing is that old.

That is in purportion to population too, the military is shrinking.

Most of all the purportion of the government devoted to the military is shrinking , because most of the government is growing while the military shrinks.

Also , a lot of our military expenditure is on hospitals and retirements , needfull yes , teeth in our bite no.

So is a president doing his duty , if he withers the military?

Of course the shrink is not all Democratic and not all bad.

Remember Reagan and the "peace dividend" ?
Less need for resisting other superpower ment we could put a few wepons down , and we did .

I think we ought to know when to stop the shrink, any time now.

[Xavier_Onassis]

The military does not need as many people as it once did, because of better equipment. When it is too big, what we get is politicians mongering unnecessary wars.  Grenada, Panama, and both Iraq wars could have been avoided with better diplomacy. 9-11 could have been avoided with better intelligence.

Wither the military, cut it, whatever word suits you. We waste too much on it now. Romney wants to spend more money than even the military says it wants.

The president is no9t doing any favors for the people of this country  by growing the military.

[Plane]

So you favor growing the CIA?

[Xavier_Onassis]

No, of course not.

I would get rid of the morons that gave us bad intel about Iraq's WMD's, is any of them are left.

[Plane]

   You want better intelligence, what would you do to achieve better intelligence?

  I suppose you do not want the US to be attacked, what would you replace our intimidating military force with?

[Xavier_Onassis]

We need to dispose of reasons to attack us, of course.

No one attacks Canada, Sweden or Switzerland. It can't be that hard to do.

As for better intelligence, we need more people well trained in languages, first and foremost. People who can tell by an accent whether someone is from Tripoli or Tyre, Latakia or Aleppo. There are other things we also need that I will leave up to the experts.

We need experts that will not, as was done in Iraq, NOT agree with the administration's lies.

[Plane]

Even if we were so poverty stricken that we had no gold to steal, we could still be attacked by people who thought they could manage our land better.
That is what happened to the Cherokee, it is hard to point to anything they ever did wrong , except that they came in second in military power to the guys that wanted their space.

We can't afford to come in second to any power or allience that wants to boss us around , unless we can trust that power to be good to us.
So what power is that?

Those other ideas of yours tho I do like.
Having lots of Americans that speak foreign languages , instead of few , would be an improvement in my estimation also.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Even if we were so poverty stricken that we had no gold to steal, we could still be attacked by people who thought they could manage our land better.

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Yeah right. Surely with over 200 nations on this planet you can cite some recent case of this.

We do not need the two biggest air forces in the world to defend against invasions. Note that Sweden and Switzerland have adequate defense forces. We do not need three hundred bases scattered all over the planet.

Several years ago, President Correa refused to renew the lease on the base at Manta. There have been no consequences, other than perhaps fewer barmaids in the local bars.

It is not like Ecuador is under any threat. At the Universidad de Loja in the city of the same name, the students painted four portraits of famous revolutionaries: El Che, Fidel, Karl Marx, each identified by name and another unnamed figure. Of about thirty people on the tour bus and several dozen students, no one could identify the mysterious figure. It was, of course, Frederich Engles.  The closest guess was Charles Dickens.

I doubt that any US base would serve any educational purpose.

It was a really nice looking campus, by the way. Ecuadorans are not messy with their graffiti like Mexicans and Argentines. There are some really clever wall paintings.