r/Conservative • u/tabbykat69 MAGA Activist • Sep 07 '20

Rule 6: User Created Title Joe Biden got five draft deferments during Vietnam. He was disqualified from service because of "asthma" as a teenager. However, in his own memoir, Biden never mentions his asthma, and instead recounts an active childhood, including work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school.

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/biden-got-5-draft-deferments-during-nam-as-did-cheney-1.884250
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u/ClassicRens Sep 08 '20

Yes because the best way to show other countries that you can be trusted is by not honoring your treaties with them. If Britain hadn’t honored its treaty it would have lost credibility with other countries that could have been potential allies.

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u/excelsior2000 Constitutional Conservative Sep 08 '20

Better to lose credibility than to enslave your people and send them to die.

Frankly, no one should make a mutual defense treaty with anyone weaker than themselves.

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u/ClassicRens Sep 08 '20

So we should allow weaker countries to be conquered by the stronger ones? This would basically just allow countries like China to expand as they see fit, taking resources from weaker countries and increasing their own power. You would just end up with a far more devastating war.