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because most americans do not want war, at least id hope, so calling it that seems pretty short sited (maybe until you continually do that 'war' thing), if you
by hellzbellz123 7mo ago
because most americans do not want war, at least id hope, so calling it that seems pretty short sited (maybe until you continually do that 'war' thing), if you want the citizens to look positively on your spending it should probably be for defense not war, again, at least i should hope. im just a dumb "lib" whatever that means
- Finbel 7mo agoOn the other hand calling it "Department of Defense" seems quite whitewashing of what it actually does.
- happymellon 7mo agoIt spends the defence budget...
- westmeal 7mo agoWhich is used primarily for offense anyway
- Braxton1980 7mo agoI'm pretty sure the amount the money spent on offensive actions is significantly less than the defense
- westmeal 7mo agoWhen was America last invaded by a foreign adversary?
- JumpCrisscross 7mo agoThis resembles anti-vax logic. We haven’t been invaded because our military maintains a strong deterrence and strategic depth.
- fleshmonad 7mo agoYeah, otherwise the USA would have been invaded by Cuba, Iraq, Vietnam, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and a hundred more, and they all would have a fight over who can have it. Thank god the US defended themselves against those terrible guys. Especially the WMDs were quite the close call, the Iraqis were minutes away from nuking the land of the mart.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> otherwise the USA would have been invaded Yes, invading Hawaii was part of imperial Japanese planning. If you don’t understand that defense spending is still worthwhile even if you don’t blow anything up with it, I’m not sure how we connect.
- Finbel 7mo agoBut... you ARE blowing things up with it?
- Braxton1980 7mo agoYou haven't shown the value. There are multiple countries that have a very low defense spending and since WW2 haven't been invaded.
- ben_w 7mo agoCuba's an odd rhetorical choice given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
- Finbel 7mo agoI think you're the one applying anti-vax logic here. Imagine beating a guy up for looking at you wrong and then get into a semantic argument with the judge on how you shouldn't be charged with assault because it was actually an act of defense, you see if you hadn't assaulted them they would surely have assaulted you so it's defense. You're basically saying the US don't need a Department of Defense because the Department of War is doing such a good job.
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- happymellon 7mo agoMaybe. I was just saying that the purpose of the Department of Defence is to spend the "defence budget".
- Finbel 7mo agoYou see how that's a circular reasoning? The defense budget should by all accounts be called the war budget if we look at how it's spent (Iran).