Giuliani
I think we should make it very, very clear that we understand that we can both engage a country, commercially, like we are doing with Russia, or at the same time, we can be very, very firm in our own defense. Ronald Reagan gave us the best answer to how to deal with these situations. The answer is a very, very strong military that no other country on earth would ever consider challenging. ... Right now, an increase in military spending, increasing the size of our military in all aspects in a sensible way, would send a heck of a signal both to Russia and to China to not think about challenging us down the road.
2007-12-20 11:05:14 · 7 answers · asked by fuzzybrowsrocklee 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Mccain
On Russian President Vladimir Putin: "This is a dangerous person. And he has to understand that there's a cost to some of his actions. And the first thing I would do is make sure that we have a missile defense system in place in Czechoslovakia and Poland, and I don't care what his objections are to it. And he's going to cause us to set up a league of democracies to address issues from Darfur to Burma to Iran and others, because he and the Chinese are blocking meaningful action to keep us in a peaceful world in the United Nations. It's going to be some tough times ahead."
2007-12-20 11:05:49 · update #1
2 time recipient of the US Congressional Medal of Honor USMC Major General(retired) Smedley Darlington Butler wrote a book "War is a Racket"
THE SMEDLEY BUTLER SOCIETYThe Smedley Butler Society is dedicated to eliminating US military imperialism.
http://warisaracket.org/
Smedley Butler on Interventionism
Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something ...
http://www.fas.org/man/smedley.htm
Corporate Coup in the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUmMC5P8IE&feature=related
2007-12-20 11:17:31 · answer #1 · answered by MIE 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nice quotes,
To justify spending more on it's military than the rest of the world combined the US. needs an enemy, a strong one, or at least the perception of a strong one. Hopefully these candidates who have more allegiance to the military industrial complex than the public won't get elected.
2007-12-20 11:23:53 · answer #2 · answered by . 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess I'd be worried if I thought the he had a snowball's chance in Hell of winning the general election, but now it looks like old "Mr. 9/11" Rudy might not even win the nomination.
2007-12-20 11:09:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It has already started in Souther illinois, 26 degrees and 6 inches of snow that is cold enough to be war.
2007-12-20 11:10:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
fuzzybro - your panic says all - bet you also think the shy is falling in as well.
2007-12-20 11:18:04 · answer #5 · answered by Dave M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure
a cold war is better than war
2007-12-20 11:09:01 · answer #6 · answered by Mary Jo W 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bring it on!
2007-12-20 11:08:26 · answer #7 · answered by Manbearpig 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋