Last friday, Mitt Romney made a speech at the Citadel in South Carolina. Specifically, he was talking about his stands on foreign policy, stating, "I will reverse President Obama's massive defense cuts". But, where are those defense cuts that he is speaking about? Granted, President Obama has made defense cuts here and there, but for the most part, Obama has not made massive defense cuts. Heck, he actually sent 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan in 2009. In addition, Romney called for additional spending on top of freezing the cuts in his attempt to create a "New American Century". Romney is mainly calling for these additions to defend America against other countries that have "anti-american visions of regimes", which include Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba. In addition, Romney believes that countries like China and Russia pose a major threat as well. In all, Romney's idea of a "New American Century" confuses and scares me. With the level of globalization and global cooperation, is adding more military spending to the world's biggest military budget (which spends almost 600 billion dollars more than any other country) a good idea?
I personally disagree with Mitt Romney and his plan in a way scares me. Adding more military to an already bloated system seems like a bad idea to me. In addition, Romney's statement of a "New American Century" seems to be placed very much on purpose. Whether or not this statement is an empty catch phrase or a slogan to get behind on, the idea and implication it places on other countries in an era of globalization is a tad bit alarming.(text of the speech)
I think that military spending is definetely important, but I don't think that we should put all of our money there. I think that we are in a good position in military spending at this point, and that adding more money just doesn't make sense.
ReplyDeleteI agree in your view that the current magnitude of globalization today indicate a bad sign for more military spending which might threaten foreign relations between nations that are interconnected with one another. But I believe Romney to be an intelligent man, keep in mind he's in the lead of the GOP race, and I know that he wouldn't state something like this without knowledge on the issue. I'm sure that his views are thoroughly backed up by a benefit to consequence ratio. All we can do is hope for him to do whatever is best for the nation if he were to become president.
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