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Originally posted by ipsedixit
Originally posted by Sparky63
I think most of you are missing the point Romney was trying to make. We are no longer capable of fighting 2 major wars. Our ability to so in the past has been the key to our strength and some would argue, our survival.
America is in no danger whatsoever from attack by any other nation.
Originally posted by Sparky63
I think most of you are missing the point Romney was trying to make. We are no longer capable of fighting 2 major wars.
Originally posted by Sparky63
Originally posted by ipsedixit
America is in no danger whatsoever from attack by any other nation.
True, but many of our allies are and we guaranteed that we will defend them if attacked. We need to be capable of doing so on more than 1 front.
Originally posted by sheepslayer247
Do you like having your view challenged?
No one does. So I cannot fault him for that.
Originally posted by ipsedixit
Realistically speaking America needs to be able to assist Israel against its numerous enemies in the Middle East.
Originally posted by PrplHrt
What Obama doesn't mention is that Ghaddafi was replaced with the Muslim Brotherhood. Not good.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by Sparky63
I think most of you are missing the point Romney was trying to make. We are no longer capable of fighting 2 major wars.
a) if Romney did try to make THIS point, he failed miserably. IMHO the only point he was trying to make was to present Obama as weak, and to do this he had to resort to that idiocy regarding the number of Navy ships back in 1916, which resulted, pardon the Navy term, in a raking broadside from Obama.
b) I'm not even sure that we aren't capable to fight to major wars. You may count Iraq and Afghanistan as minor, but of course some people may decide that you belittle our military and the sacrifice made.
I frankly won't believe for a second that the nation is seriously engaged in a war when people care about things like iPhone 5 or minute detail of M.Jackson's demise. We haven't even started trying to fight in earnest until what we see on TV is news from the front lines and not Jay-Z.
Sorry I can't just take your argument when I look around.
Originally posted by ipsedixit
Originally posted by Sparky63
Originally posted by ipsedixit
America is in no danger whatsoever from attack by any other nation.
True, but many of our allies are and we guaranteed that we will defend them if attacked. We need to be capable of doing so on more than 1 front.
I don't believe that military strategy is seriously involved in budgetary considerations in the US. I think that a segment of the American economy, the military industrial complex, has hoodwinked Americans into believing that they need ten more brooms in the closet and one stationed behind every door in the house, when the reality is that the house can manage very nicely with just two brooms.
Originally posted by DZAG Wright
reply to post by Sparky63
Who told you the vast majority of the military doesn't support Obama? Me and my friends do, for what it's worth. Though actually, we don't care who's the Commander in Chief, we care who's offering a pay raise and less deployment.
So stop trying to use the military to further points...
And we have bayonets true, but we don't use them.