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Part of Obama’s “Fundamental Change” for America is destruction of the military
Coach is Right ^
| February 28, 2015
| Jim Emerson, staff writer
Posted on 02/28/2015 8:05:50 AM PST by darkwing104
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To: darkwing104
While I believe we need a strong military, I do have reservations. First the founding fathers feared a standing army in times of peace as a threat to freedom. Second even Eisenhower warned about the dangers of the military industrial complex. Third, when the military was filled by draft, it had a huge socializing and uniting function that brought about a fairly homogeneous set of societal values in this country.
Yes, we need a strong military to deal with a dangerous world, but some approaches to gaining that military are better than others.
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02/28/2015 11:56:48 AM PST
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Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: Logical me
To: Robert357
First the founding fathers feared a standing army in times of peace as a threat to freedom.We are not at peace. The stuff happening in the Mid East is just the beginning.
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02/28/2015 7:07:58 PM PST
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USAF80
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