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In the discussion thread: Joint Chiefs: Looming cuts would ‘hollow’ military [View all]

Thu Jan 31, 2013, 03:15 PM

Myrina (8,913 posts)

36. ... and that would be a problem, why, exactly?

As long as the servicemen & women continue to get paid & have their supplies, I'm good with hollowing out the rest of the military.

Maybe the rest of the world will stop hating us so much.

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42 replies	Author	Time	Post
Joint Chiefs: Looming cuts would ‘hollow’ military [View all]	DonViejo	Jan 2013	OP
Good. Hollow the motherfucker out. NT	Taverner	Jan 2013	#1
+1	villager	Jan 2013	#3
^^^THIS^^^ eom	Purveyor	Jan 2013	#4
I totally agree.	Owl	Jan 2013	#5
To start how about closing half the overseas bases?	earthside	Jan 2013	#6
Only HALF?	Plucketeer	Jan 2013	#14
I said "To start ..."	earthside	Jan 2013	#24
I wasn't raggin' on you	Plucketeer	Jan 2013	#33
Sounds like they are starting to get it.	bluedigger	Jan 2013	#2
Whiney RepubiBrass does not become itself	Berlum	Jan 2013	#7
Not all -- just stop paying Blackwater	rocktivity	Jan 2013	#8
Those pathetic losers have lost 2 wars in little more than 10 years and they're	coalition_unwilling	Jan 2013	#9
"defend"? n/t	L0oniX	Jan 2013	#12
Exactly! It IS the WAR DEPT.	dotymed	Jan 2013	#18
Ixnay on the aftdray	KamaAina	Jan 2013	#23
laughed till I started coughing.	MrYikes	Jan 2013	#28
The only reason that I consider having a draft	dotymed	Feb 2013	#39
Cheney is an even better one	KamaAina	Feb 2013	#41
Good. Maybe we can stop fighting bullshit wars now. n/t	Downtown Hound	Jan 2013	#10
Retirment community: Medicare and SS cuts will kill us. n/t	L0oniX	Jan 2013	#11
If "The problem is spending..."	november3rd	Jan 2013	#13
Hollowed Out military...	AlbertCat	Jan 2013	#15
Message deleted by the DU Administrators	People b4 profits	Jan 2013	#16
Crocodile tears.	AtheistCrusader	Jan 2013	#17
Never an exit-strategy....	ReRe	Jan 2013	#19
There are no defense "cuts"	bluestateguy	Jan 2013	#20
The only thing I would really be concerned about	Third Doctor	Jan 2013	#21
...	Phlem	Jan 2013	#22
How about using the military only is we need to defend our country and not to offend other countries	olddad56	Jan 2013	#25
So what's the downside? nt	valerief	Jan 2013	#26
So the fuck what? I don't get it.	SpankMe	Jan 2013	#27
Good.	AngryAmish	Jan 2013	#29
cannot stop that war machine cash	Skittles	Jan 2013	#30
I can see the face, but can't remember the name of an instructor at NCO Academy over 20 years ago.	patrice	Jan 2013	#31
Really	Kelvin Mace	Jan 2013	#32
Leaving them as hollow as the US middle class,	Doctor_J	Jan 2013	#34
Isn't the word "bloated" synonymous with "hollow"?	Spitfire of ATJ	Jan 2013	#35
... and that would be a problem, why, exactly?	Myrina	Jan 2013	#36
I can only hope ...	JustABozoOnThisBus	Jan 2013	#37
kick $40 Billion per month in Afghanistan ...	lib2DaBone	Jan 2013	#38
We are the hollow men	Blandocyte	Feb 2013	#40
Profound. Absolutely. Profound.	Octafish	Feb 2013	#42

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