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Originally Posted by Wagner
And lets see, what has the military spending bought us....how many assaults on US mainland soil...oh..1, 9/11/2001 and then there was one in Hawaii back in 1941 by Japan (but that wasn't the mainland)....I'd say the money was spent pretty well. And how many real threats are there, oh..none.
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How many assults have there been on Australia in the past 50 years? Or how many on Japan? Or how many on Brazil? Or how many on China?
The lack of assults has nothing to do with having a strong military.
This conversation reminds me of a rediculous friend (I use the word "friend" loosely here) I used to have back when I was in school. Somehow I went through my entire high school and college without ever getting into a fist fight. Nobody ever "jumped" me, or beat me down, or attacked me -- not even once. Yet my "friend" always used to end up in fights -- almost on a monthly basis. He would claim that someone was always out to get him. Either they jumped him, or hit him when he wasn't looking, or some other reason. Yet he was no wimp -- in fact, he was one of those big strong guys who you would want to be on your side if you had a bar fight. And usually he would beat the crap out of the other guy(s). Eventually he started carrying a weapon around with him just in case -- usually something like a small pocket knife. Unfortunately for him, that didn't help. It just caused him to get into a couple knife fights and land him in prison once. Yet me, without being a big strong guy, without carrying any weapons -- somehow I never had any problems and never got into a fight.
I can make a great analogy here and compare the United States to my buddy and myself to the other countries I mentioned here above.
Being strong and capable of beating someone's ass does not stop you from being attacked. Being a good world citizen is what stops you from being attacked. If you shit on others, they will get their revenge somehow -- or at least they will try.