>
>No, I've alwys said that ll the military we need is the National Guard and
>the Coast Guard--gotta protect ourselves against them rambunctious Canucks
>and hostile Mexicanos, not to mention the Nicaraguans just three days
>drive
>from Brownville, TX. But really, coastal defense is about all we need.
>
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>
>Except that even if we got rid of the imperial dynamic in the US, the
>overhang/interia of the system is not going to eliminate for a long time
>the anger of those who've been wronged by it and, in all likelihood, are
>going to continue to try and seek revenge.
It's actually amazing how little of thsi there is.
>
>Granted we don't need a big war machine to prevent this--it can't--but how
>would you prevent further attacks on the US without some form of
>projecting power into other States? A bigger, 'smarter'
>INTERPOL/FBI/CIA/NSA gives me and lots of other people the creeps; how to
>keep them in check when the incentives for secrecy/treachery would be even
>greater?
>
>Ian
Well, we do need an internatioanl police, creeps or no.
jks
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