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Given recent events, the real debate for the next presidential administration will be on how and where to increase defense spending. (we're gonna wish we'd done something about social security during the Bush administration when we could afford to.) Defense is still at a near historic low as a percentage of GDP and it's becoming painfully obvious that we need a larger military. The world is becoming a more dangerous place. There is not going to be another Cold War but there are going to be a lot of Hot Wars as we already see in the new century.
The peace dividend is gone-in fact, we've got some catching up to do from the Clinton's time out from history.
Like many elections, this one may well be won on issues that will be secondary to actual events over the next four years or so. Funny how we seem to elect peacetime presidents only to have them become wartime presidents of necessity.
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Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.
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