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Is America Ensnared in an Endless War?

goatlockerloungelizard Wrote: Feb 08, 2013 11:19 AM

I want govt spending and intervention substantially reduced in domestic and military affairs. I spent 20 years in the Navy. My wife served for 28, and now works for CENTCOM as a civilian contractor. The amount of waste in military spending is staggering. And not only that, but everything we do militarily has unintended consequences that are often worse than the evil we are attempting to destroy - as Pat highlights twice a week. After 9-11, we should have wreaked havoc on Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan for a year, and then left with a message: Mess with us again, and we'll return for more of the same.Leave us be, and we will do likewise. No nation-building. No crusading for democracy.

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Is America Ensnared in an Endless War?

"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."

So said Richard Nixon in his interviews with David Frost. Nixon was talking about wiretaps and surreptitious entries to protect lives and safeguard national security in a violent and anarchic war decade.

The Nixon haters pronounced themselves morally sickened.

Fast forward to our new century. For, since 9/11, we have heard rather more extravagant claims by American presidents.

Under George W. Bush, it was presidential authority to waterboard, torture, rendition and hold enemy aliens in indefinite detention at Guantanamo.

Under Barack Obama, we don't have a Nixon "enemies list"...

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