History Repeats Itself, Dangers of Slashing the Military

[Buddha]

(http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/obama-administration/barack-obama.htm#r_src=ramp)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/06/history-repeats-itself-dangers-slashing-military/
(http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/obama-administration/barack-obama.htm#r_src=ramp)

(http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/obama-administration/barack-obama.htm#r_src=ramp)
President Obama (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/obama-administration/barack-obama.htm#r_src=ramp), in outlining proposed defense cuts at the Pentagon (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/the-pentagon.htm#r_src=ramp) on Thursday, urged officials to remember the "lessons of history" and to make sure the country does not repeat the mistakes of the past by leaving the military "ill-prepared" for the future.
"As Commander in Chief, I will not let that happen again," he said.
But some officials are worried that the planned cuts could do just that, as few programs are expected to be left unscathed by the defense cuts and new military strategy outlined this week.....

Gotta keep the war machine chugging along for the sake of our friends across the Atlantic.

[iOWNme]

Can you name me one Empire in the history of man that fell from an outside threat?


The only enemy an Empire has is within its fences. Our problem is NOT external aggression, ITS INTERNAL TREASON.


"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." - Marcus Tullius Cicero