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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (22884)	2/4/2005 2:40:57 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Mike, China can afford a huge military because they've already outsourced those jobs to China. <g>

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (22884)	2/4/2005 6:15:39 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 116555

KT, Re: I think we spend more on our military than any other 6 nations Actually, it's far more ridiculous than that. We spend about 50% of the world's budget on aggression and war making. So, 4% of the world's population in the U.S. spends more for war-making than does the other 96% of the planet. And we have the audacity to say we want peace! There is no other sovereign nation that has a military base on U.S. soil. The U.S.A. has over 725 acknowledged foreign bases in 130 nations. And yet you still hear silly Republicans yammering "oh, no, we're not an empire!" The citizens of Costa Rica suffer from far less fear than does the American citizen. Costa Rica has no army. The fear state and huge militaries seem to go hand in hand. Decades ago, we chastised the Nazis, Japanese, Italian Fascists and then Soviet Russians and Communist Chinese for living in states of fear with centralized and militarized governments. We were certain that these types of states were the enemies of freedom and liberty, in spite of rhetoric to the contrary from the morally bankrupt leadership of those countries. And today? More than ever we can say, as Walt Kelly did so eloquently in the Nixon era, "we have met the enemy, and they are us." -R.