Comment Re:Costa Rica (Score 1) 2349
You may want to just check Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_wit hout_an_army
How many of those countries like Liechtenstein or Panama have been invaded since they abolished their armies?
I agree: Not everyone believes in free love and peace. That doesn't mean that if you don't have an army you're just asking to be taken over. Moreover, having an army doesn't guarantee anything: if the Israel-Lebanon conflict proved something, it was that being "second best" in the army race is just as well as not having ran at all. Meanwhile, the Lebanese people could have enjoyed the benefits of those hundreds of millions of dollars yearly expenditure in something that actually benefited them, such as education and health.
Costa Rica has done well enough defending itself the very few times it has been invaded in the past, by using volunteers and police. We'd much rather not starve our people or tax them even further because of hypothetical wolves in the forest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_wi
How many of those countries like Liechtenstein or Panama have been invaded since they abolished their armies?
I agree: Not everyone believes in free love and peace. That doesn't mean that if you don't have an army you're just asking to be taken over. Moreover, having an army doesn't guarantee anything: if the Israel-Lebanon conflict proved something, it was that being "second best" in the army race is just as well as not having ran at all. Meanwhile, the Lebanese people could have enjoyed the benefits of those hundreds of millions of dollars yearly expenditure in something that actually benefited them, such as education and health.
Costa Rica has done well enough defending itself the very few times it has been invaded in the past, by using volunteers and police. We'd much rather not starve our people or tax them even further because of hypothetical wolves in the forest.
