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I guess I'm more pro-military than most on the left, but that's because I see the military as an institution with potential for good while recognizing the inherent responsibility of wielding such destructive capability. A volunteer army in the hands of a well informed democracy can be a force for justice, or in the wrong hands it can be the enforcement mechanism for tyrants. But what underlies all of this, is the stark reality that the world has large conventional standing armies serving under every state system on every continent, and so should we.

Maybe cut the budget occasionally though...