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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (226039)3/25/2005 5:35:37 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1572711
 
No Tim, what I meant was that its not necessary to spend as much on defense against a non existent enemy as a opposed to an powerful one that is real and poses a threat.

"Non-existent enemy" wasn't the issue, "weak enemy" was. And once again overstretch is about how bad the burden is and how much you can maintain it. If you pushing the limit and starting to overstretch yourself against a weak enemy you can pull back a bit. If your pushing the limit against a powerful enemy than you might not be able to reign things in and cut back the resources going to your military.

Bush takes office in 2001. We had no known official enemies. 9/11 happens in 2001. Al Qa'ida claims responsibility...

At that time we had been in a low level on and off conflict against Saddam for years, and Al Qaeda had already made a number of attacks against the US.

Tim
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