On 28 Jul 2002 at 19:37, Hermit wrote:
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> PS - given that the US spends more per year on her military than the
next ten largest military spenders together, isn't this rather a sad
indictment of how this money is being expended?
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> Hermit
>
Both external and internal threats, military, paramilitary and terrorist,
have to be addressed, and due to our status as superpower and world
leader, we incur more of them, and we also in that function in effect
subsidize many other countries by assuming their defence (which
allows them to spend the funds that would otherwise have to be
directed to these purposes on social spending); all this cannot be done
on the cheap.
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