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President Trump has proposed a $54 billion increase in defense spending, which he said would be "one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."
Past administrations have increased military spending, but typically to fulfil a specific mission. Jimmy Carter expanded operations in the Persian Gulf. Ronald Reagan pursued an arms race with the Soviet Union, and George W. Bush waged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr. Trump has not articulated a new mission that would require a military spending increase. This has left analysts wondering what goals he has in mind. Erin M. Simpson, a national security consultant, called Mr. Trump's plans "a budget in search of a strategy."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/is-americas-military-big-enough.html
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What do you think about the proposed increase in military spending ? Does USA really need more weapons ?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 24 2017, @11:44PM (7 children)
Throwing more money at the problem is not going to be the solution.
What would help greatly, though, is if leadership were chosen for their accomplishments and merit rather than playing politics. This is why, despite being the biggest and most powerful military in the world, they get their asses kicked by Gook farmers and Jihadi goat-fuckers (if you ever doubted that Jihadis are goat-fuckers, you can google "Muslim rape goat" and easily see the video yourself. Another feasible option is to refine existing proven designs rather than gamble on cheap plastic shit and bug-ridden compromises, hell, we still use the B-52 among many other 70's-era designs.
Not to mention that the past few years brought a lot of young pukes and liberalism into the military, which is an organization that by design should not be "soft." When Hadjis are strapping bombs to kids and sending them your way, there should be no question or hesitation about what to do with that gun in your hand -- they don't call assault rifles "big black scary baby-killers" for nothing.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @12:05AM (5 children)
most powerful military in the world
According to what standard? Americans are still living the WW2 fantasies where they carpet-bomb entire cities and leave nothing standing and call themselves "most powerful".
Gook farmers and Jihadi goat-fuckers
So it seems the above group is more powerful than "the most powerful military in ... the Americans' minds". You Americans are good at fighting the last war and have no imagination (just like the devil) and are secretly still fighting WW2 (to which you invited yourself!). You Americans work for the jews.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 25 2017, @12:16AM (2 children)
No, that is incorrect. If we did carpet-bomb entire cities and leave nothing standing like in the good ol' days, then we would still be the most powerful.
Unfortunately, Americans are held to a higher standard of civilization than the savage goat-fuckers we are fighting. There is a lot of other complicated politics going on, like CIA arming the same goat-fuckers our military fights and not being able to nuke the Middle-East because of foreign lobbyist bribery and the petrodollar. If we said, "fuck it" and nuked the entire Middle-East including Israel, then 99% of the world's problems would be solved overnight.
Many of our congressmen and judicial branch do, but there are many others who don't. The AIPAC/SPLC/Mossad cancers will be difficult but possible to remove.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by cubancigar11 on Saturday March 25 2017, @02:42AM
Because that has worked before? Or you mean the problem of not starting ww3? Or problem of americans still living?
Damn fantastic morons of America. Believe me the kind of navel gazing Americans spend their life doing, is the only problem that would be solved by nuking anything.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday March 25 2017, @04:25AM
Really? To you, is it less civilized to fuck a goat than to fuck a child?
Because it is known the "higher standard of civilization" didn't stop using your citizens from [wikipedia.org] using [google.com.au] children [huffingtonpost.com] in Bosnia/Iraq/Afghanistan. Even more, they used your money [cnn.com] to pay for the services.
I gather your morals let you sleep well knowing your money went for the "entrainment" of the "good guys"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 25 2017, @01:14AM
"You Americans are good at fighting the last war"
That is an ailment common to militaries of all time. For reference, look up the Maginot Line. Or, you can just google your own phrase, "fighting the last war". Heh - I typed that phrase into google, and got this as a suggested alternate search: generals always fight the last war maginot line
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @01:49PM
hey dumbass troll modder: just because someone disagrees with a post and it's a stark contrast and you get pissed off doesn't make them a troll. they are a troll if they posted just to piss people off. quit being such a socialist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @12:51PM
I bet you were a shining example of a boot licking suck up in the military. Oh, that's right. The military doesn't accept lazy self loathing cowardly white niggers in the military. Only real men.