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AmandaRuth

(3,105 posts) Wed Mar 21, 2018, 08:22 PM Mar 2018

The coming arms race??? THE COMING ARMS RACE.....??

what the heck does that even mean? the increase in military spending is going for an arms race? jeezus, the tax cut, the trade war, now an arms race?

Will this country even be here in 2022?

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The coming arms race??? THE COMING ARMS RACE.....?? (Original Post) AmandaRuth Mar 2018 OP

With Iran am No. Korea! imanamerican63 Mar 2018 #1

After 9-11 Bush gave a speech where he referred to "the first war of the twenty-first century" LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2018 #2

They weren't exactly wrong. From what i remember reading... DetroitLegalBeagle Mar 2018 #3

imanamerican63

(13,728 posts)

1. With Iran am No. Korea!

Reply to AmandaRuth (Original post)

Wed Mar 21, 2018, 08:28 PM

Mar 2018

LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(12,564 posts)

2. After 9-11 Bush gave a speech where he referred to "the first war of the twenty-first century"

Reply to AmandaRuth (Original post)

Wed Mar 21, 2018, 08:30 PM

Mar 2018

To me, this implied that he (and his minions) viewed war as the natural state of things; that being at peace was a temporary aberration.

Since the end of the Cold War, the conservatives have been looking for an excuse to spend big bucks on military equipment (not so much on the active duty personnel and definitely not on the veterans). The Iraq war was a temporary fix -- in Trump they're getting the whole enchilada, the Cold War on steroids.

DetroitLegalBeagle

(1,914 posts)

3. They weren't exactly wrong. From what i remember reading...

Reply to LastLiberal in PalmSprings (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 21, 2018, 10:36 PM

Mar 2018

In 3,400 years of recorded history, historians estimate there has only been 268 years of peace, or 8% of our recorded existence. This matches the roughly 93% of the time in which the US has been fighting since 1776.

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