"The problem in defense is

[rateyes]

how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

[BrklynLiberal]

1. A corollary?

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither" Benjamin Franklin.


and will end up with neither.

[rateyes]

2. True that. nt

[JonQ]

3. Of course if you don't go far enough

you will be destroyed from without.

[Enthusiast]

5. Is outspending the entire

rest of the world far enough for you?

[JonQ]

6. Yep

more than. I would think we could cut it back considerably.

[Octafish]

4. ''Every gun that is made...

... every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

[hootinholler]

8. Thank you for that quote Der Fishie!

It was absolutely exactly what I needed for a thread I'm working on.

-Hoot

[Octafish]

9. What general said this?...

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.” ~ General Douglas MacArthur, 1951

[Gregorian]

7. The first act of war is defense.

That is all.