[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]justme: I’m curious as to where your “facts” came from.
Specifically, the statement that Dubya spent more money on killing people than any President since Nixon. I was under the impression that LBJ, a Democrat, holds that dubious distinction.
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Also, Clinton was far more interventionist than Dubya.
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Alan, I’m sure it was just an oversight that you ignored that I said “since Nixon”. Johnson was *before* Nixon. Not sure whether Johnson spent more money in 1963-1965-1968 than Nixon did in 1968-1974.
You then make up a figure of merit that you call “(degree of) interventionism”, and use the numerical count of “interventions” as a measure. I think the correct measure is the number of dead persons and the amount of money spent. Also, whether the interventions served a legitimate purpose.
Your statistics are highly questionable. You say that Clinton dropped more tonnage on Iraq in 3 days in 1998 than WWII. What is the source of that? I looked in Wikipedia and could not find it. Do you have a solid reference?
It is permitted to disagree. But the arguments you presented are pretty weak and rather suspect on a factual basis.
