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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (357484)11/9/2007 10:49:46 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1572957
 
Stop the wars, plural?

So you not just against Iraq, but against Afghanistan? Against any military anti-terrorist operations?

In any case the wars aren't where the bulk of the spending is. Since the budget is getting close to balance if we could stop all war spending now it might soon achieve balance. But the problem isn't the current balance, its the future commitments to Social Security and Medicare.

Also we can't just stop the spending on the wars. It wouldn't be wise to just give up, when the enemy isn't, and when we are making progress in Iraq. But even if we did decide to do so, it would take quite some time to pull our forces out safely, and there would be ongoing spending for another year or two in Iraq, even if Bush issued the "get out now" order this afternoon.
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