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Kasz216 on 19 April 2009
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akuma587 said:
Kasz216 said:
theprof00 said:
Kasz216 said:
akuma587 said:
So the Cold War can justify deficit spending but a humongous economic crisis can't?

For a lot of people yes.

A full scale Nucleaer war between the US and USSR would of been a lot more disasterous then the current economic crisis.

The fact you can't instantly recognize that is kinda crazy.

was that a joke?

If we didn't do anything it would be cheaper to print newspapers on dollar bills.

 

Actually that's the opposite of what would of happened.

Also. Yes a full scale nuclear war would still be worse then that.

 

You also make the assumption that spending more on a war is always an effective way to win that war.  That may be true in some cases, but we put a lot of money and manpower into wars like Vietnam and Iraq and have only gotten back questionable results in return.  Sometimes spending money on a war just means you spent a lot of money and didn't get shit in return.

 

How do you think the Iraq and Vietnam wars would of went without spending a lot of money on them?  The same or worse?

Also, the Iraq war went awesome.  It was the gameplan for the reconstruction of Iraq that was screwed up.  They never came up with a gameplan for what to do after they won the war.

As for Vietnam... Vietnam actually went well consdering we were fighting both Vietnam and China... and also keeping military actions to a low enough level as to not ignite a nuclear war.  You can't really win "Limited wars".  Not against China anyway.

Kudos for actually bringing up something democrats have done wrong for once though.