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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (225997)3/23/2005 8:24:41 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1572562
 
It is when you consider that during the 40, 50s, 60s, 70s etc we were dealing with a powerful enemy, and in the new millennium, only a Saddam.

"Imperial overstretch", is about the burden exceeding your capability.

Its more than simply exceeding one's capability. After all, our capability could be increased further simply by putting everyone on 'a diet'. But there isn't the will to do that. Its speaks to growing corruption; to the economics at home beginning to fail. It speaks to a legislative body that is more concerned with hysterical grandstanding than doing its work. It speaks to arrogance ruling logic. It speaks to the beginning of the end.

Its just as much of a factor when you are dealing with a powerful enemy as it is when you are dealing with a weak one. In fact its more likely to be a problem when you are dealing with a powerful enemy.

Nonsense.....utter and complete nonsense.

The capabilities of your enemies and potential enemies are relevant when you are deciding the question "are we putting more in to the military than we should", but they are not relevant to the question "are we putting more in to the military than we can sustain", which is the question that the concept of "imperial overstretch" deals with.

The latter is relevant when the emperor is making up your enemies as he goes along.

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