04-30-2011, 06:16 PM
rjmacs wrote:
Frank says that the legacy of America's military presence in Europe has caused the world to expect the U.S. to provide for Europe's defense, despite the fact that the E.U. has more people and a larger common GDP than the U.S. He supports multilateralism, but thinks that other countries should contribute more to their own defense, and not depend on America's military...
Interesting stats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Stat...eployments
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Outside of banking, the military-industrial complex is where all of the money is at. It keeps a very big chunk of our population employed.
Do you really want to take that system down a notch in the present economy?
Let's reduce our military presence during one of the 20 year lulls we occasionally have between wars.