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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jul 23 02:15:04 2011, in response to Re: Boehner walks away, gives up on debt negotiations with Obama, posted by SMAZ on Sat Jul 23 00:59:10 2011. Germany and Japan have none and they prosper.One could make an argument that they're effectively free-riding on our military resources, and that by default, we're basically the reseve units of the Bundeswehr, and the de facto replacement of the Japanese Imperial Navy. Unlike Nazi Germany and the USSR, we're not seeking global domination, but our presence basically serves to keep things relatively stable around the world. FWIW, as a joke, I've argued that the Chinese lend us money so that we can send out our Navy to patrol the seas until they figure out how to have a blue water naval force too. |
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