Firelord Zuko

Apple vs microsoft is the definition of a geek war though.

In every single debate thread, wisdomtree goes off the topic to rant about how awful liberals are. It's getting kind of old.

We would still have a navy, just a much smaller one. We wouldn't need to try to be everywhere in the world at once.

That huge army would have no way to get across the ocean to the continental United States, and would be useless for messing with the US.

The thing is, we could halve our military spending.. and still be spending more than any other nation in the world on our military. Reducing our military spending will not allow china or russia to suddenly go and conquer the united states. Russia is a skeleton, with an obselete navy and nuclear arsenal, small military, and no force projection whatsoever. China hardly fares better. Despite what military-industrial complex scare tactics would lead you to believe, we are not at risk of falling behind the rest of the world in military strength or technology, and we won't be even if we cut our spending on a huge scale.

Alright, I'll start, and you can shit all over my ideas. I believe that the USA should be much less involved on the world stage. We should drastically cut military spending, pull back our military projection massively, and find ways besides permanently occupying the middle east to keep the pipeline flowing. We should invest much more in systems for preventing/mitigating the damage of nuclear attacks using the extra funds we might have from cutting spending elsewhere.

What are they doing right? What are they doing wrong? What would you do differently?

These labels are pointless. Everything should just be issue-based.