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Should we increase the size of our military?
Results so far:
| Yes | 36% | 278 votes | Total: 778 votes | |
| No | 64% | 500 votes |
Yes
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Created on: August 07, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
Yes, we should increase the size of the military. In a recent United States Senate hearing James Webb
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by Nouri Arif
Created on: June 01, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
I admit that I am torn on this issue. I considered the matter for sometime prior to sitting down to
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Created on: September 06, 2009 Last Updated: September 07, 2009
We have been highly successful with an all volunteer military...in peacetime. But the general principle
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by Ted Sherman
Created on: May 31, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
It is very evident the US needs a larger full-duty military. For the past five years, the government
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by Rich Browne
Created on: September 17, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
The decision whether to increase the size of the U.S. military is fraught with questions and consequences.
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Created on: September 03, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
Our military, and the nature and purpose of a military in general, can be likened to the immune system
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by Henok Fekadu
Created on: February 22, 2009 Last Updated: March 07, 2009
Speaking from a neutral stand point the answer is a no brainer. Clearly troops have been over used and
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Created on: July 17, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
America is a nation of people who prize freedom and individual rights. Where Americans see injustice
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Created on: April 02, 2008 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
Many will look at a question like this and wonder if the person posing it might be insane. "Are we not
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by Rob O'Hannon
Created on: August 27, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
Yes, we should increase the size of our military. The fact that there are 50 year old National Guardsmen
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Created on: October 05, 2007 Last Updated: November 26, 2011
I believe the military, as a whole, is undersized for the current conflicts we are involved in. Some
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by Clif Mccrady
Created on: June 21, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
We are living in a nation that loathed in parts of the world, it is imperative that we have the ability
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Created on: June 01, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
Yes, we need to increase the size of the military. As the "mother land" it is our responsiblity to mother
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by Foxbaron
Created on: August 26, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
Absolutely we should increase the size of our military. As a matter of fact military service should
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by Blah McBlah
Created on: September 04, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
I am a firm believer in the cliche' "bigger is better." From the bombs to the bedroom, size does in
No
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by Liam Kloef
Created on: March 25, 2011 Last Updated: August 26, 2011
Not only should we not increase the size of our military, we should give some serious thought to dismantling
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Created on: May 22, 2008 Last Updated: October 08, 2008
This country was founded by volunteers and militias outnumbered, untrained, and under-supplied.
Take
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Created on: May 15, 2010
Increasing the size of the military, does not guarantee more security. An increase, will often
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Created on: November 27, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
Prior to 1947, the USA scaled way back the size of its army during peacetime. Reading the words of our
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by Seth Long
Created on: July 16, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
Should We Increase the Size of Our Military?
The United States spends as much on military as the rest
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by Can Tran
Created on: June 05, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
We shouldn't increase the size of our military. Increasing the size of the military means you're getting
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by Gary Betts
Created on: September 19, 2007 Last Updated: July 18, 2011
The United States military should not be increased in size. There are no problems in the Navy and Air
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by UrMessage
Created on: June 01, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
No, we should not increase the size of our military. We need to refocus and use technology to our advantage.
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by Henok Fekadu
Created on: April 17, 2009
I think not. That'll only create arms race that we don't want. Let's talk out our problems. I'll listen.
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Created on: August 04, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
There is absolutely nothing to be gained by increasing the size of our military, unless you decrease
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by B. Rock
Created on: September 27, 2007 Last Updated: August 30, 2010
Absolutely not. The military is far larger than it needs to be, and increasing its size would do little
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Created on: July 10, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
No. If anything, we should decrease the size of the military. The Fiscal Year 2007 budget for the Pentagon
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Created on: August 19, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
We're having so much trouble increasing the military size right now that desperate recruiters are breaking
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Created on: May 24, 2007 Last Updated: September 09, 2008
"The Greeks and Romans had no standing armies, yet they defended themselves. The Greeks by their laws,
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