In his recent opinion piece, “National Defense Deters War”, Col. J. Karl Miller quotes George Washington as saying: “There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.” In other words, war preparation deters war. The basic question regarding that assumption is: “How’s that working for us?”
War spreads war
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | 9:56 a.m. CDT;
updated 6:03 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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