{"id":21595,"date":"2025-03-28T01:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21595"},"modified":"2025-03-28T01:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:10:46","slug":"firing-line-friday-is-our-military-defense-adequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2025\/03\/28\/firing-line-friday-is-our-military-defense-adequate\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: Is Our Military Defense Adequate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Half-a-century ago our foreign policy was shaken up and our very military capability was drawn into question. Let us look back when William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed with Robert Kuttner, James R. Schlesinger, Frank Donatelli, and Martha Angle the question: <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is our military defense adequate<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iEVE0T9hrWM?si=ArJCWaM5mkbT1Vf6\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: Is Our Military Defense Adequate?\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Half-a-century ago our foreign policy was shaken up and our very military capability was drawn into question.  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