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		<title>By: JimG33</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/thomas-sowell/guns-and-pensions/comment-page-1/#comment-4299291</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Libertarians or Paleoconservatives rail on about the cost of our shrinking military and how it will break us, or that we should let the world roll on while we stay safe and sound behind our watery ramparts, I wonder if they have every studied the foreign policy of the Harding and Coolidge administrations. I know it was a long time ago but it was built on the idea of no foreign entanglements. Therefore the League of Nations was never ratified by the Senate. Now I&#039;m as anti-UN as anyone on this site, but when Germany, Italy and Japan walked out of the League none of the European Powers did squat. So the renegades knew that there was no price to pay for the in gathering of the Aryan races into the greater Reich, the expansion of Japan in the conquest of China, and Italy&#039;s crushing of Libya and Ethiopia. 
 
As far as the US was concerned the Twenties were a time of experimentation in muscular pacifism. The Five Power Naval Treaty made sure that a naval arms race did not plunge the nation into war. It resulted in   small aircraft carriers armed with obsolete aircraft. The London Naval Treaty meant that Britain would consider on a yearly basis if there was a need for the building of new warships. If their possible enemies seemed quiet, the building would not go forward. And I won&#039;t go into the Kellog-Briand Pact that outlawed war, something only and intellectual would love. 
 
At the end of the greatest war in history, Truman&#039;s Sec. Def. began to dismantle the wartime military; no new big deck carriers, no new long distance bombers, no new tanks. Sec. of State Acheson, drawing a line in the sand at the beginning of the Cold War seemed to leave the Korean Peninsula out of the area we would fight for. By 1950 the Norks attacked the ROKS, wit the blessing of Uncle Joe. I won&#039;t go any further into that history. 
 
The Cold War gave us the far flung military that we are dismantling today, and yet the same pacifist and isolationist fantasies so prominent in the twenties persist.  
 
I&#039;ll cleave to the words of Ronald Reagan when he rebuilt the military after the foolishness of Carter, &quot;America has never gotten into a war by being too strong.&quot;  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Libertarians or Paleoconservatives rail on about the cost of our shrinking military and how it will break us, or that we should let the world roll on while we stay safe and sound behind our watery ramparts, I wonder if they have every studied the foreign policy of the Harding and Coolidge administrations. I know it was a long time ago but it was built on the idea of no foreign entanglements. Therefore the League of Nations was never ratified by the Senate. Now I&#039;m as anti-UN as anyone on this site, but when Germany, Italy and Japan walked out of the League none of the European Powers did squat. So the renegades knew that there was no price to pay for the in gathering of the Aryan races into the greater Reich, the expansion of Japan in the conquest of China, and Italy&#039;s crushing of Libya and Ethiopia. </p>
<p>As far as the US was concerned the Twenties were a time of experimentation in muscular pacifism. The Five Power Naval Treaty made sure that a naval arms race did not plunge the nation into war. It resulted in   small aircraft carriers armed with obsolete aircraft. The London Naval Treaty meant that Britain would consider on a yearly basis if there was a need for the building of new warships. If their possible enemies seemed quiet, the building would not go forward. And I won&#039;t go into the Kellog-Briand Pact that outlawed war, something only and intellectual would love. </p>
<p>At the end of the greatest war in history, Truman&#039;s Sec. Def. began to dismantle the wartime military; no new big deck carriers, no new long distance bombers, no new tanks. Sec. of State Acheson, drawing a line in the sand at the beginning of the Cold War seemed to leave the Korean Peninsula out of the area we would fight for. By 1950 the Norks attacked the ROKS, wit the blessing of Uncle Joe. I won&#039;t go any further into that history. </p>
<p>The Cold War gave us the far flung military that we are dismantling today, and yet the same pacifist and isolationist fantasies so prominent in the twenties persist.  </p>
<p>I&#039;ll cleave to the words of Ronald Reagan when he rebuilt the military after the foolishness of Carter, &quot;America has never gotten into a war by being too strong.&quot;  </p>
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		<title>By: numnut</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report from Iron Mountain.
 Needless expenditures in far off lands whose real objective is the treasure under the sand given to corporations.
  Beware of foreign entanglements Washington advised,beware of the military industrial complex Eisenhower advised.

Time to use the military on the manner proscribed,to protect American soil,and no more.
 There is no other reason to deny butter and more importantly jobs in the US.
   The global free trade outsourcing of jobs to make corporations richer is part of the equation.
Let&#039;s not pretend it&#039;s all about the people.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Report from Iron Mountain.<br />
 Needless expenditures in far off lands whose real objective is the treasure under the sand given to corporations.<br />
  Beware of foreign entanglements Washington advised,beware of the military industrial complex Eisenhower advised.</p>
<p>Time to use the military on the manner proscribed,to protect American soil,and no more.<br />
 There is no other reason to deny butter and more importantly jobs in the US.<br />
   The global free trade outsourcing of jobs to make corporations richer is part of the equation.<br />
Let&#8217;s not pretend it&#8217;s all about the people.</p>
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		<title>By: cxt</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/thomas-sowell/guns-and-pensions/comment-page-1/#comment-4294034</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great article!.......if rather frightening as history tends to repeat for those whom fail to learn from it. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article!&#8230;&#8230;.if rather frightening as history tends to repeat for those whom fail to learn from it. </p>
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