tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685787.post7932342686358300788..comments2023-09-13T09:33:46.372-04:00Comments on BEACH MUSIC AND BOAT SHOES: Boring SidenotePatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064029383416027632noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685787.post-32331985186578413082010-12-19T21:08:09.247-05:002010-12-19T21:08:09.247-05:00sReagen hated nuclear weapons, but he built up our...sReagen hated nuclear weapons, but he built up our supply to deter the USSR. That seemed to work. Make the enemy scared of you. I think if the enemy sees you becoming weaker, they smell blood and go on the offensive. There may be an arms race, but I'd rather be the one with the biggest guns at the end. (I know from experience, since my guns are freaken huge.) I don't think pandering to an untrustworthy "ally" is the right solution.HANKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15472139053603593603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685787.post-70237919168421829162010-12-18T00:52:20.777-05:002010-12-18T00:52:20.777-05:00I'm with you on this one. Treaties, in general...I'm with you on this one. Treaties, in general, are a waste of time. They're never really enforceable so why even bother. <br /><br />Slight subject change, but I have come to a different view on foreign policy over the last few years. We don't need to be in Iraq anymore. Or even Afghanistan. Those people over there are crazy and always have been. Bring our boys home and let them do what they are actually trained to do: fight wars and defend the country. Not police the world, nation-build, and try to bring democracy to ignorant towel-heads who never wanted it in the first place, and never will.<br /><br />If there is another 9/11, I agree, bomb the crap out of them again. But we don't need to still be on the ground, patrolling their street, spending billions of dollars building schools, hospitals, and roads for them, and trying to make them accept and understand concepts they never will. <br /><br />Just bomb the crap out of them and call it a day. Big government doesn't work at home, nor abroad.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064029383416027632noreply@blogger.com