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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Very good question
	Date:	1/6/2012 10:06:43 AM

My view is that to the extent another country threatens our national security interests our federal government has a moral obligation to protect us. I am not in favor of police actions in places like the Sudan where there is no clear national security interest. I am firmly in favor of military action in those countries where they threaten our national security. Interestingly, way too many neo-isolationists and libtards are all for interventions like these but oppose anything that actually will protect our national security......why is that?!?!?

And unlike bozos like Ron Paul, I actually take countries like Iran at their word. They say they want to destroy us (the Big Satan) and nuclear weapons given to a third party proxy like Islamofascist terrorists is exactly the same as putting them on the tip of a missile and shooting them here.....just a different delivery system. And if they want to attack us because they think we are a threat to their national security I would recommend they wait a couple of years so Oblamer and Panetta can do half the job for them.

I reject this whole concept of moral equivalency and the ascribing of nefarious motives to our military actions. We were inundated with baseless claims that we invaded Iraq for the oil. Well, that never happened did it? The fact is the world is full of dangerous regimes with all sorts of desires that are kept in check because they know if they get on our wrong side they will end up swinging from the end of a rope like Saddam. That is a good thing and worth every penny we spend on the military. If you want to make cuts I can give you a list and will save you a whole lot more money and keep you safer at night.