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Ad hominem, strawman and passive aggressiveness in a single sentence. Impressive.

We have - by any objective measure but ground troops and total warheads - the largest on the planet. "Peace through Strength" is nothing but a platitude. If it means anything, it's "Biggest Military." We didn't need Donald Trump for that.

The notion that we must "rebuild" what is already a gigantic military is perplexing. Our military challenges are not coming to us from nations who are emboldened that our massive military is not 10% more massive. I'm not going to call you a low-information voter, but I'm going to ask that you be a little more critical and analytical if this is as deep as you're going at present.

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Where did I argue we have to rebuild the military? Are you even replying to the right comment? Is your first sentence projection?

I think you perhaps should read my post again, I made no claim about you making that argument.

Then what is your post replying to? A poster above said that Trump's military spending shows he's a warmonger, and I said it's well known to anyone who even remotely followed the election that he believes in "peace through strength", so his military spending doesn't prove he's a warmonger.

The only strawman was yours.

I didn't reply to the warmonger post. I'm not responsible for contextually connecting every one of my posts to every other in a thread.

Although I see that by not doing so it gives you the opportunity to reply with this sort of non reply.

> to every other in a thread

You're misrepresenting.

You: If he cuts back on foreign intervention, this extraordinary emphasis on "rebuilding" our military (whatever that means given the relative size of our military) makes even less sense.

Me: Yes it does, "Peace through Strength"

Followed by your hyper-aggressive, completely off-topic comment right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13789479

Why did I need to write the above up?

Though I'm not sure you're arguing in good faith ...

Peace through strength is not something that requires additional military resources. I'm not sure why you're being obtuse about this.

He promised during the campaign to cut the debt; his proposed budget would do the opposite.

"Peace Through Strength" is, again, a platitude, but even if we take it at face value we have strength at 4x+ and other nation.

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