Does this mean new Cold War?

[CHenry]

A war would bankrupt Russia in a week.

 

[perfor8]

Why doesn't being bankrupt keep the USA out of wars?

Wars are financed with debt.

 

[TenBears]

We will pay for it with Russia's oil, oh wait that was Iraq.

 

[CHenry]

Why doesn't being bankrupt keep the USA out of wars?

Wars are financed with debt.

We are n ot bankrupt, we just borrowed money we arent paying back.

 

[perfor8]

Pray tell, what tortured (no pun intended) definition of bankrupt do we not meet?

 

[TedKennedy]

Draft, no, sixteen year olds, no. Males between eighteen and twenty-five do have to register with the Selective Service, though.

But it's not a draft. I doubt that we have the will to re-institute a draft, or the leaders like Marshall who had enough foresight to see WWII coming and call for it before it was actually needed.

Aaah - what grand freedom we have.

 

[CHenry]

Pray tell, what tortured (no pun intended) definition of bankrupt do we not meet?

Well by definition we are bankrupt, but still manage to operate.

 

[TenBears]

We are n ot bankrupt, we just borrowed money we arent paying back.

Does anybody know who the .gov owes money to, is there a list?

 

[SoonerP226]

Aaah - what grand freedom we have.

What I mean is that back then we had leaders who could see the big ball of crap rolling down the pike, and they had the will to do what it took to make sure we were as ready as they could get us to deal with it when it hit (Marshall convincing FDR to implement the draft was just one example that sprang to mind). Right now, we have a bunch of pork-barrel politicrits who're shoveling slop into their troughs on their way out the door...

 

[Shadowrider]

A war would bankrupt Russia in a week.

Our military wouldn't take a week to obliterate theirs in a plain old shooting war. They know it too, that's what makes war with Russia a very dangerous proposition.