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Hawk Nation: A Guide to the Catastrophic Debt Ceiling Debate
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/12-3

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The debt ceiling and the warfare state

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

07/13/11

In any event, on the debt limit issue, the stance of those who want a more peaceful, less interventionist foreign policy is - or ought to be -- clear. If we raise the debt ceiling, we are, in effect, giving the War Party a blank check. The pressure to cut military spending will end, and the spigot will be turned back on. Calls to cut back on military operations overseas - coming, these days, from fiscal conservatives as well as the usual liberal-left suspects - will have much less resonance in Washington...

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