What? Elaborate on this.

Remind me of exactly what I said again on this?

Or do you want to admit how hilariously wrong and paranoid you were when you claimed Obama’s Birth Certificate as a forgery? How about the fact that in this very comment stream you claimed we’re at war when we are not? Or when you claimed I was culpable for the actions of an insane murderer, a claim that even your wife pointed out was stupid?

Its also really amusing to me that you claim that I was brainwashed by a “tenured professor” when all your arguments (including that one) come directly from dimwitted blowhard propagandists like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

How can you stand being married to a graduate of one of the most liberal universities in the entire country? After all, anyone who would dare get a degree from such an morally bankrupt den of lies and liberal propaganda must be an inherently bad person.

Because it is obvious to me that your rationale for just about everything you say lacks originality and is nothing more than what some tenured professor who couldn’t hold a job in the real world has told you.

And you’re frequently having to be corrected. You were horribly wrong when you attacked the Catholic Church about a month ago, you were wrong today when you said a state of war existed between the US and N. Korea, then you bring up how the US treats Gays much like Islam does to women then proceed to say, “it’s beside the point.”

Whatever, Dan. That University “logic” you use as a form of debate is very disturbing.

I wouldn’t be opposed to having both, personally.

You’re right, the official state of War only exists between South Korea and North Korea. Therefore we are not at war with anyone at all. Thanks for reinforcing my argument for me.

You’re also right that I went to college though I’m not sure how that’s relevant to the discussion.

Bowden: “And by the way, the “War on Drugs” is winnable, if we bothered to treat it like a real war and start shooting drug dealers and smugglers on sight.”

Do I really need to point out to you that the reason they can’t do that because it is not and never could be a real war and calling it that is just a propaganda trick perpetrated by Richard Nixon? It is therefore not winnable, nor are the pretend wars on “Poverty” (LBJ) and “Terror” (W).

So why is a gigantic government-run Military preferable to a more efficient private sector one?

Given that there never was a DoW on North Korea, Mr. College boy, how pray tell are we in a “State of war” with N. Korea?

And by the way, the “War on Drugs” is winnable, if we bothered to treat it like a real war and start shooting drug dealers and smugglers on sight.

Then you could win it.

We are also not in a state of war with any state other than North Korea with whom there is still an active ceasefire agreement. We are engaged in several rhetorical and un-winnable wars against abstract concepts such as “Poverty”, “Terrorism”, and “Drugs”.

Back to the main question, would a private sector Military be better and more efficient than the gargantuan government monstrosity* we have now?

*The US Defense budget is more than the next fourteen military budgets in the world combined and makes up 46% of the entire world’s combined military budget.

And we conservatives despise his liberal approach to Government.

Secondly, the Military is a constitutional responsibility of the government and in case you weren’t paying attention, we’ve been at war for the last 8 or so years.

Healthcare keeps us healthy, and that is frankly a much greater danger to the average citizen than some hypothetical hostile military, doesn’t that mean conservatives should be just as in favor of a large government Department of Healthcare? We live in an unhealthy world fraught with pollution and disease, after all.

I’m sure we could have a long derailment about whether military action overseas actually makes us more or less safe but I’d like to stick to the original question if possible.

* Despite the fact that Bush and the GOP controlled Congress presided over the largest growth in the the overall Federal government since FDR and the biggest increase in entitlement spending since LBJ.