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Originally Posted by Sigaba
]IMO, the binary reasoning in your comment is highly problematic for two reasons. First, by applying this type of reasoning to an issue that SMEs think is very complicated, one leaves open the door for the same type of reasoning to apply other complicated issues. As an example, many people base their view of American national security policy on a simple metric like defense spending as a percentage of GDP or number of foreign countries to which members of the armed forces are deployed.
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How many is many? I would venture to say that very few Americans think of national security as a percentage of any spending policy. I think it would be safer to say that the vast majority of Americans view national security as "what are we doing to keep the a-holes in check that mean to do us harm". I agree that is a simplistic view, but one in line with what I believe sinjefe pointed out correctly.
As for alienating potential allies, Should we make a practice of compromising our cultural norms in order to maintain alliances?