The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

How so? I'm not sure what parallel you see, but I might just be being stupid.

Are you referring to the Soviets in Afghanistan?

Spending tons of money to flex their international muscles, and bankrupting themselves in the process. The location of said flexing is only added irony. Reagan was very proud of himself for basically outlasting the Soviet martial spending spree, and here we are doing it to ourselves. Our economy is the worst it's been decades, and our military is overstretched and exhausted. If any new threats should arise, I wonder how we are to deal with them? Yet another irony is the state of our National Guard: the very entity that kept GW's chicken **** ass out of Nam is now a one-way ticket to the Middle East.