Conscription = Slavery ?

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(12-06-2016, 11:43 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't even understand what this means.  Are you suggesting that the US military should invade Mexico and start killing all the criminals there before they immigrate into the US?  Because if you are talking about terror threats from the middle east our military involvement there makes it MORE likely that we will suffer terror attacks, not LESS.

Sorry for the ambiguity. It means when we "Police the World" we are often doing so to make conditions better in that country (our should I say more inline with ours). My view is let's give them a better place to live in their country not an alternate place in ours.

As I said it comes down to which seems more humane. Allow them safe haven here or facilitate safe haven there.

As to the rest we can debate and allocate funds under whichever umbrella we want. Point is: our Military spending is not out of line with the rest of the world when it comes to percentage of GDP.