detailed argument over at Dean2016<\/a>. Take a look!<\/p>\nOf course, one advantage of abolishing the active military would be less incentive (and capability) to engage in military adventurism of the sort we have in Iraq (and arguably, Libya, though I still do support the latter). Since most of this adventurism is usually directed at the muslim world in the past few decades, the net effect would arguably be more security, not less – as the prime irritant of Western interference in muslim majority nation affairs is drastically reduced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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