My biggest question after reading through most of the comments here is, "Why would we defend Israel if they attacked Iran first?" or better yet, why should we be so quick to defend Israel at all?
SORRY GUYS I LITERALLY CANNOT RESPOND FAST ENOUGH. PLUS, I HAVE TO GO TO WORK AND I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO TRY TO REPLY ON MY PHONE.
THIS HAS BEEN A FUN DISCUSSION WITH MOST OF YOU. THE OTHERS, WELL, YOU GUYS ARE AS PREDICTABLE AS ALWAYS.
Who, right now, poses a threat large enough to warrant a military as large as ours? This year, the US will spend as much money on the military as the next ELEVEN highest spending countries in the world. To extend on my first question, who in the next five years could pose a big enough threat...
Sorry I didn't word some of my replies to your liking. After all, I'm just a socialist who wants all of your money so it can be evenly distributed to everyone. Except Obama. He deserves more money than anyone else.
I strongly disagree with this statement. I know several people who got married while they were in the military just so they could get the BAH and family separation pay. They would make an agreement with a female friend from back home to get married for as long as they were in the military, then...
That's kind of funny. With tuition prices rising every year, it would seem that colleges and universities believe that the more money you put into your education the better it is.
Probably get a job in the private sector like I and many of my friends have done. That's the funny thing about the military though. Once you're out, most of the time they couldn't care less what happens to you.
I would also argue that a significant number of the people who've been in the...
What interest does private enterprise have in any of those things? Who's going to pay private insurance to repair roads and bridges on public highways and interstates? Unless you want to pay for it every time you drive it.
Private enterprise does have a hand in education and tuition...
As I said earlier, I think the money that has been spent on these wars or extra money in the future that would come from a smaller military should go to things like education, tuition assistance, infrastructure improvements, medical research, environmental research, NASA, Social Security, and...
If you mean the terrorists responsible for 9/11, why did we go to war with Iraq or Afghanistan? Couldn't we have declared war on Al Qaeda? Or gone after Saudi Arabia since that's where most of them were from?
I too have served. I'm not saying all the money should go to welfare. It should also go to medical research, infrastructure development, Social Security, Medicare, and tuition assistance.
Downsizing has to be an option. We have been fighting a war on two fronts for the last decade. Far too...
I disagree with the military needing to be as large as it is. We have no responsibility to be a global police force. We will soon be exiting (for the most part) Afghanistan and we are already mostly out of Iraq. It is time to downsize the military. It is unsustainable at its current size.