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Old 01-27-2011, 09:41 AM
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They are talking "smart" cuts like pulling 10's of thousands of troops from Germany. The cost to keep them and their families there is huge, it helps the German economy a LOT and they failed to support us in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bring them home....
Our entire defensive establishment needs an overhaul. It just doesn't make simple common sense, for decades we faced a massive Soviet military threat from the Eastern Bloc, comprised of armies of millions of men and tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. Why are we still spending the same amount (or more) to defend against rag-tag bands of fanatics? We could slash the budget in half and still be the strongest nation on earth.
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