Re: Will the world be a safer place....
 

No, the US need to wind their neck in and use their armed forces for defence rather than as an attempt to project their power abroad.

It's good that the military industrial complex is being cut though, a massive corporate welfare scheme.

Re: Will the world be a safer place....
 

It'll be interesting to find out where Obama's axe is going to fall and which services, programmes etc. are going to bear the brunt.

Re: Will the world be a safer place....
 

Wherever the companies that aren't contributing enough to his campaign are.

Re: Will the world be a safer place....
 

I'd love to see a graphic of the before and after sitiuation overlaid on the campaign donors list. lol

Re: Will the world be a safer place....
 

I think you may find that the large defence companies will be contributing to the GOP.....

You may find this and this and this informative regarding 2012 donations....

Re: Will the world be a safer place....
 

But not under Alan Fry's 'plan'..... :D

Presumably the Democrats don't derive much cash support from the military then or Obama's playing a dangerous game.

Could a diminished and possibly less confident US military machine with fewer options actually be more dangerous to world peace than what we have now? Cornered rat scenario?

Re: Will the world be a safer place....
 

We bee both wind, wave, hydro and solar and Nulclear.

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The sooner that happens the better!

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Based on looking at what companies have given to Obama, Apple is going to have a hard time after 2012!

Re: Will the world be a safer place....
 

Yes, that's right - Obama will stop everyone buying Apple products...

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I meant that Apples Rivals Mircorsoft and Google contrbuted money to Obama, he might be more favourable to them rather than to Apple!

Re: Will the world be a safer place....
 

Well, considering that most major corporates, including MS and Google, give to both parties, your proposition may be sub-optimal....

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Sorry but as far as i am concerned this is just the usual obama rhetoric that won't actually come to anything near what he says in practice. Also is anyone stupid enough to believe they will alter their focus on the oil at all. We're also expected to believe that all of a sudden they are no longer bothered about iran yeah ok lol.

I think there will be a reduction in naval forces in the gulf to make this rhetoric appear legit hoping the iranians are stupid enough to do something that hands the US an excuse. Level of cuts obama is talking about would mean the closure of many domestic military installations that would be catastrophic to local economies. It's exactly what you do in an election year hit tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of american voters.

Thats also putting aside the damage being seen to hit military hard will to voter perception of obama. Americans may not always be happy with how their politicians use the military but they have very strong support for their forces.

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To honest this defence cuts will not happen because his rivals control the lower house of congress, they would be strongly aganst defence cuts, not to mention lobbying by defence companies like Lockheed Martin and Boeing!