bitterlyclingin
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The defense jobs are part of the very limited "Much" the Government must do per the Constitution. Free cell phones, dildos, contraceptives, abortions, sex change operations, not so "Much"
But the Constitution is a document that simply doesn't bother Democrats "Much". If there's a part of that document they don't like they simply discard it. The Democrats media collaborators and co conspirators are too busy sucking on someone's male appendage to notice, so the Democrats don't have to worry. "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" But if Mitt wears a wrongly shaded tie, or if his skin be flushed for one reason or another, 'Woe is he'. Ezra Klein's Journolist is alive and well and today it encompasses everyone employed by the old media with no pretensions at objectivity or fairness at all.
What part of the Constitution mandates a permanent army?
Oh wait..it doesn't.
Neither does it mandate that trillions be spent on an offensive military ready to invade countries that never attacked the homeland.
"Provide for the common defense" is the phrase that comes to mind. At first it was limited to the building of wooden stockade fences for all the colonial inhabitants of the area to retreat to when marauding Indians approached. Later it was expanded to having a mobile naval land military force capable of protecting America's merchant seaman as they carried out their tasks of delivering American goods and materials abroad along the established common trade routes. There was then one unfortunate period where some of the members of "The common" elected to go their separate way to achieve their perceived part of their "Good" in a way they only envisioned, but the mutual bond and interdependance agreed upon ninety years before was militarily enforced. Still later, America reached out beyond its shores when it appeared that one of its Capital Ships had been attacked by a foreign power. A sad, but bizaare event occurred during the Spanish American War during TR's assault on San Juan Hill. Some of TR's troops went prone during the assault to avoid the defender's fire, the defenders armed with Mausers, a weapon superior weapon to what the Americans carried. Due to the slope of the hill, their heads were still exposed. These men were seen to suddenly jump up, uninjured, keel over and die. When you pith a frog, cut off the brain and push a probe down the exposed spinal cord, the fore and rear legs extend reflexively even though the animal is already dead. The Spaniards bullets were passing through the men's exposed craniums, entering and passing unseen down the men's spinal cords because of the angled slope they were resting on. The cause of America's entry into WWI was almost the same as the the Spanish American War, a long series of military insults was followed by what appeared to be the deliberate sinking of an American ship accompanied by great loss of life. The deiberate sinking of any nations capital weapon of defense, traditionally, has been considered an act of war for all parties. No explanations necessary. Pearl Harbor was just such an event, many times over. America assumed a different posture and status during that war. It stood, practically unscathed as complete victor afterwards, astride a wide two ocean front, acknowledged as the military and economic force without which that victory could not have been achieved.
"American soldiers fight, not for the lust of conquest, but to liberate" FDR. No less true today, than in 1945.
America today, is like an old West gunfighter, acknowledged in his youth as the quickest, most accurate, therefore the deadliest of them all. All the young, aspiring, up and coming thugs want to put a round in him, and assume his prior reputation unto themselves.
I should add George S Patton's statement, from the movie, "If mountains and oceans can be conquered, no fortress erected by man will be able to stand" The best defense will always be a potent offense.
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