Elizabeth Warren Comes Down Hard Against Global Warming, Separates Herself From Hillary Clinton

[Ken Burch]

236. I meant nothing at all like "you people"-it was simply a way to denote a group. No slur at all.

I favor enough of a military to protect our territory from external attack...we can do that with a far smaller defense budget than we have now.
We no longer need a Cold War size nuclear stockpile in Russia(the Russian defenses are meant defensively...Putin is not trying to take over the world)and I doubt the Chinese are either(they need the world order as it exists to keep existing in order to keep trading with it). We have no reason to maintain the status quo on military policy...especially the antiquated insistence on being prepared to fight a two-front war.

And of course soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen(sorry for the gender-specific term for enlisted USAF personnel, but "airpeople" just sounds weird)don't cheerlead for war. I wasn't saying they did.

What's wrong with using much of the money devoted to the MIC for life-affirming purposes instead? And what's wrong with giving those service people a role to play in life that isn't about eternally preparing for an orgy of death-which, while few of them want it, is, in the end, the purpose of the military. It has no progressive purpose, no hopeful purpose, and no ability to improve the human condition in any meaningful way. It can stop some bad people...but that isn't the sole purpose for governance(of which the military is meant to be a part).