Reply #3: When we are attacked directly [View All]

[Warpy]

That's about it, although troops and supplies should be given freely when the UN reaches a consensus about reining in a rogue imperial power.

9/11 doesn't qualify, since that attack was by a criminal organization operating outside any national government. To prevent that sort of thing, we should be counting on doing meticulous police work with international cooperation to shut down their funding. Too bad the GOP is more concerned with keeping money laundering conduits open to fatten their contributors rather than closing them to curb terrorism.

Think of what we could do were we to redefine the military as a defensive force, to quit all those dozens of bases overseas, and to forego our policy of putting down any democratic government that tries to reform relations with multinational corporations.

Hell, we might even be able to afford healthcare.