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Originally Posted by TopHatter
Small correction, John McCain was a Naval Aviator
Don't kid yourself. Whatever military installations she saved, it was not for the military.
Bases equal Jobs
Jobs equal Votes
She saved bases for herself. She's a politician and that's what politicians do.
SR-71 funding was cut off the first time in 1989, during the presidency of George HW Bush.
In fact, a lot of the deep military cuts blamed on Bill Clinton were in fact a product of George HW Bush's administration (i.e. Dick Cheney, then SECDEF)
However, Clinton did cut off funding during reactivation efforts in 1997.
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I've lost all faith in Democracy. The ones that work well work well because their leaders ignore or misdirect their population so they have a free hand to make whatever choice they think is sensible on issues that actually matter. Like John Howard. We might as well not have elections, since the government basically does what it wants on everything to do with the economy, defence and foreign policy, because everyone is too stupid or too spoilt to really care. If Labour get in, I bet any money they will be the same.
The ones that don't work, and I'm landing the US into this category, don't work because the politicians will conciously make the wrong choice just because it seems more convenient to the public. Iraq and Immigration are my case in point. Although, Australia is guilty as sin in Iraq too since we have all our troops out of harms way, and then espouse the most vitriolic of rhetoric about "staying the course". Of course, here, everyone thinks that we're far too special to ever have to live up to our responsibilities.
Like what's the freaken point? Might as well have a dictatorship and hope whoever is in power dies before they go senile like Mugabe.