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To: tejek who wrote (328075)	3/6/2007 7:41:11 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1573682

most deployments result in fighting. I don't think that statement is true. I guess there is some leeway about how small or out of the normal routine some deployment has to be for you to consider it a deployment, and also some ambiguity about fighting, but most deployment don't result in full scale battles. Many result in no violence at all. "But even if we had been actively at war for every minute of the past twenty five years it would be ridiculous to say that our whole culture is exclusively devoted to defense and war." Okay, I'll give you that its not exclusively. We do have other interests. Nonetheless, we spend way too much time focused on war or the threat of war. Too much time could be argued. I might not agree, but its not an assertion that would unreasonable on its face, or "patent nonsense" We spend less time and less effort on war and the threat of war than we have had for most of the post WWII period. But less doesn't inherently contradict with "too much".