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Originally Posted by Lidwen Wraith Okay, but how can we pretend that is true of our country, or even of most countries who enjoy enviable resources?
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the Third Reich would inevitably have thrust its long shadow into Scandinavia, had intervention from others not been forthcoming...no matter how friendly and well liked Scandinavia was. | We could cut our military spending to half and still spend more than every other country in the world. We have gone well past our threshold for what is necessary to defend our homeland. Schools are falling apart but the military gets anything they want? Sounds like we have become a military state in my opinion.
Europe would have handled the Third Reich without us. --- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope --- There is little doubt that the world in general is more liberal than it was 50 years ago and beyond. Conservatives are simply roadblocks on the path to an ever more progressive and liberal world. What a sad existence. |