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<blockquote data-quote="RickN" data-source="post: 1726284" data-attributes="member: 8854"><p>This I agree with. We did not have to get involved in Vietnam, Bosnia, or Grenada. Even Korea is a little iffy in my book, but if you are referring to Afghanistan or Iraq I think we did. At least the intel at the time pointed to it and what has been found since confirms most of it. The only thing not found was Iraqi WMD but the links between Saddam and OBL have all been confirmed by the captured documents.</p><p></p><p>I have not been able to find the links again that I was looking for but I did find a little. As a percentage of the federal budget total defense spending now accounts for about 20% of the total budget. Compared to most of our history this is low and has been low for a long time. The average since the 50s is around 34%. (you can ignore the first half of the chart) Note where the figures come from.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/special-myth-of-isolationism-BLOG-201111-defense-spending1.jpg" target="_blank">http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/special-myth-of-isolationism-BLOG-201111-defense-spending1.jpg</a></p><p></p><p>More later as I get more caffeine in me. 4 hours sleep is just not enough anymore.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I almost forgot I wanted to add this.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As I said in an earlier post, Eisenhower was not a lefty, but some of what he said has been used by the lefties ever since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RickN, post: 1726284, member: 8854"] This I agree with. We did not have to get involved in Vietnam, Bosnia, or Grenada. Even Korea is a little iffy in my book, but if you are referring to Afghanistan or Iraq I think we did. At least the intel at the time pointed to it and what has been found since confirms most of it. The only thing not found was Iraqi WMD but the links between Saddam and OBL have all been confirmed by the captured documents. I have not been able to find the links again that I was looking for but I did find a little. As a percentage of the federal budget total defense spending now accounts for about 20% of the total budget. Compared to most of our history this is low and has been low for a long time. The average since the 50s is around 34%. (you can ignore the first half of the chart) Note where the figures come from. [url]http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/special-myth-of-isolationism-BLOG-201111-defense-spending1.jpg[/url] More later as I get more caffeine in me. 4 hours sleep is just not enough anymore. EDIT: I almost forgot I wanted to add this. As I said in an earlier post, Eisenhower was not a lefty, but some of what he said has been used by the lefties ever since. [/QUOTE]
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