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To: tejek who wrote (327783)	3/1/2007 8:19:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573924

One of the reasons we don't have serious enemies is because we spend a lot of defense. We have become a militaristic culture That's just crazy. Out culture has become significantly less militaristic over time, at least since WWII. If we really where a militaristic culture a weapons program of this size would be to small to seriously be noticed. If we where (like you said before) "a whole culture that is devoted exclusively to defense and war", than Iraq would probably be considered a minor skirmish. An argument can definitely be made that this particular weapons program, and other programs, and Iraq, etc. are a waste of resources or are otherwise unwise. But that argument can't legitimately be made based on us being a totally militaristic culture. To borrow an expression, the claim is nonsense on stilts. -- (I'm not a pure utilitarian like Bentham, but I don't have to agree with the statement when he famously used the phrase in order to find the phrase useful)