Some of the kool aid venders on Agent Orange were eager to point out how that could be part of a tacit strategy to cut the size of the defense budget overall (though I never saw any direct policy statements that made that explicit) ...
... but "fighting terrorism", given that it is in fact a police function, is intrinsically more labor intensive than being the well entrenched resistence to an empire purportedly trying to send a conquering force against well entrenched resistance from east to west across Europe.
So at least the policy dreamed up by the kool aid merchants on Agent Orange has some internal rationality.
But expensive toys and cut the number of troops to better prepare to fight terrorism? It seems straightforward that when someone proposes a means that is heading in the exact opposite direction to the stated goal, that the stated goal is a cover story. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
Once in office feel free to do whatever you want because 90% of USA is not aware of world outside its doorstep anyhow. Hence the last 50 years of US foreign policy. The Marshall Plan was about the last good idea we had in that arena...
... lessee ... uh, the Peace Corps? And the Grenadians sure were happy for the Americans to invade / intervene / rescue them (even if you would be hard pressed to find a majority to agree on which one of the three it was).
Well, OK, the Marshall Plan was the last big ticket item. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
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