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- From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.theory,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Minor Historical Nitpick (Was Re: National debt is not bad)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:33:29 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
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- In a previous article, egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) says:
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- >In article <1jnff7INNkg7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne) writes:
- >>In a previous article, ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) says:
- >>><In article <1jmdbaINNqbj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne) writes:
- >>>
- >>> Uh, not since the 18th century have we been a colony.
- >>> And we've not been primarily agrarian since, oh,
- >>> the late 19th century.
- >>>
- >>> A "second-rate agrarian colony" would have been hard
- >>> pressed to win the Spanish-American war, for example.
- >>>
- >>>
- >>
- >> Our military spending is in direct proportion to our
- >> becoming a world power. Sorry the analogy was too much to
- >> handle. I'll tone it down.
- >
- >No. US military spending was a relatively small portion of GNP even
- >after American acquired an overseas empire. Pre-WW1 spending is
- >around 1% (I'll get the actual figures if you want. I don't have them
- >handy right now.), and America was quite unprepared to enter the Great
- >War. If you consider 1917 to be when the US became a Great Power, you
- >still have relatively small spending. The US military was
- >disassembled after the War, to be rebuilt in the late 30s, early 40s.
- >Even after WW2, the military shrank drastically, even though the US
- >was the predominant world power. It wasn't until Korea that the US
- >rearmed permanently, as per NSC68.
- >
-
- Sorry, I'm still getting a big laugh out of Russ and Zoe.
-
- 1917. The U.S. BEGAN capturing markets, leading to the fallout
- of 1929. Which lead to WWII. Which lead to the U.S. policing
- the world to protect our trade routes.
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- Japan's next. Watch. They've already begun their own aircraft
- projects, to ensure trade routes. I've seen reports that they've
- been buying up old Russian weapons and arms factories too.
-
- >
- >--
- ><Phone rings> "Hello?... He did what?... Bomb 'em.... I'm still
- >President."
- > -- Dana Carvey's George Bush, 1/16 SNL
- >
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