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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (22791)	2/3/2005 11:57:17 AM
From: BSGrinder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

I'll go with the Israeli commandos for the most effective in-and-out missions. /BSG

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (22791)	2/3/2005 4:55:11 PM
From: Earlie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

MB: I have to disagree with you, which is a rare occasion. Does the US really possess strong military capability? No doubt that it used to, but history provides plenty of instances wherein nations have built up strong military capability only to see that capability evaporate as a result of it becoming "unaffordable". The USSR is a recent example of this phenomenon. Nuclear subs rusting in their pens for lack of rubles to pay the guys to take them out to sea. Can the USA afford to spend so great a percentage of its GDP on the military? A glance across the rest of the US economic landscape suggests no. Citizens, corporations and all levels of US government are loaded with greater debt than ever seen in history and greater by far than is found in most other developed countries. If the current stealth selling of Treasuries by foreigners expands, the US will be in a world of economic hurt. Hard to keep a huge military presence when a country is broke and hard to argue that the USA is not approaching just such a nasty situation. Would that it were not true, but over the next several years, the US is going to reap what it has economically sowed..... and an expensive military is likely to be one of the first items that it will be forced to discard. Best, Earlie

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (22791)	2/4/2005 7:40:41 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Hi KT, Re: Militarily, we are the strongest nation that has ever existed and nobody can touch us. While the U.S. military is currently the most aggressive, immoral and despicable force on the planet, we must not forget that neither the U.S. nor the Russians have disarmed their vast nuclear arsenals. Presently, the Russians have 6,000 nuclear tipped weapons aimed at the U.S. To say that we are strong in the face of this deterrent threat requires some serious blindness, IMHO. Being the world's biggest jerks is not quite the same thing as having an invulnerable military superiority. :) Cheerio!