"thunder" wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:53:35 -0500, Bert Robbins wrote:


Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder if we benefit from a strong
military. ;-) Bullets or butter? World's policeman doesn't come
without a cost.

It keeps your from harm.

Does it? And at what cost? It seems to me, since WWII, this country has
been at peace . . . Well, at least a couple of years. Perhaps, if our
military wasn't so strong, we wouldn't be using them as much.

By the simple fact that our military is strong, very strong, we are
generally safe within our own borders. Peace is the end result of some
entity winning a war. The world has never been at peace, only the losers
have been at peace with the winners of the conflict. There have always been
tribes, towns, cities and nations at war.

Human nature prevents us from living in peace.