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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Fuzzy headed liberal
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Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 02:42:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 02:42:00 1984
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From nbires!conrad:
> Damned right.  We must never vote for anyone who will promise to
> raise our taxes.  Instead vote for anyone who promises to spend
> trillions of dollars we don't have for more military weapons
> ...
> Those weapons will be  used to completely eliminate our debts.  
> 
> 		Conrad Geiger

So why not rent out the U.S. Military as Mercenaries To The World?
Instead of some third world country buying masses of planes and
guns without having troops trained well enough to use them effectively,
they can hire Our Boys directly, and we'll go in and annihilate their
enemy for them, on a cost-plus basis.  A few points:

1) Obviously only volunteers are used for this - no one has to go.

2) It gives our forces combat training and an opportunity to field
test new equipment.

3) It improves our Balance of Payments (no Credit.  When their
cash runs out we do too).

4) If the two sides were equal, then whoever forks over the most
cash (or minerals, or UN voting rights, or whatever is worth it
to us) gets the victory, instead of a prolonged, bloody struggle
that solves nothing.

5) We won't take both sides (then again, maybe we should, and just
tell both sides we're fighting, but actually fake the fighting).

6) We don't fight the Israelis (this may be the same as Point 5,
or it may be so we don't embarass ourselves by losing).

7) We don't fight Russian troops (unless Russia wants to earn some
foreign currency hiring out its troops too), because confrontations
between superpowers are *a bad thing*.  Cubans are OK, though.

8) Instead of poking our noses into places we're not wanted, we'd
only be intervening at the request of whoever has the cash.

(Just in case anyone thought I was serious, :-) :-) :-) :-) 
Flaming won't do you a bit of good anyway, I'm off to Fermilab
and won't be back for 3 months.)

	"Wait a moment, maybe he has something there..."

	Carl
	{allegra,ihnp4}!convex!ctvax!uokvax!lmaher