Theres no more favorable arena for Sharia law advocates or lawfare than the U.S. and international court system. the government pays the army and gives them weapons and that the govt has the powers to finance wars or not to pay for them and they make the rules for the army. WebReview the Preamble to the Constitution. Kim R. Holmes: And now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Honorable Trent Franks. We have it in writings of Irans own military journals already. 
I think that, without question, there is a very clear link between social policy, families, the birth and rearing of children, our economic situation, and our national defense. I just the other day was looking through my bills, and heres my bill for my umbrella insurance for my home and car. Stuart Butler, So if you consider yourself a good constitutional conservative, its important to make that distinction. If you look at something like NASAs deep space probes, for example, if you cut back in certain areas, there could be maybe a 2 or 3 percent risk of loss of that vehicle because of the savings that you make. 668, Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage Act, 112th Cong., 1st Sess., February 11, 2011, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr668ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr668ih.pdf (accessed July 12, 2012). Secondly, when you think about insurance, percentage risk of things going wrong is not the way to evaluate the needs for either umbrella insurance or defense. The issue is not the percentage probability of something happening, but the downside risk if it does happen. A President or a Congress can come in and cut that budget overnight, and all that investment weve made is lost. The final report of the National Defense Strategy Commission is a compilation of the assessments of the National Defense Strategy and recommendations based on its analysis related not just to defense strategy, but also to the larger geopolitical environment in which that strategy must be executed. The preamble is an introduction to the highest law of the land; it is not the law. By providing for the common defense, the Constitution secures the inalienable rights recognized in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We have to understand that this is a destiny year for America in our electoral politics. Im reminded of Winston Churchills words in a situation like this. 
The main reason we find ourselves in this hole is because of unwarranted and very possibly unconstitutional spending on social programs that do not work. I want to make sure that we try to talk and are as kind to each other as we can be. Ken Blackwell is somebody that I hold to be a hero in this republic. What are examples of provide for the common defense? I meet so many people from other institutions or economists who say, Were looking at risk; whats the probability? Youve got to look at what the downside effect is going to be, and thats why theres a huge difference in risk associated with different parts of federal spending. Its hard for me to wrap my mind around that figure, but I have three-year-old twins, so Im forced to try. Overview General Constitutional Authorization. [5] It requires automated hardware-based solutions to deal with any such electromagnetic pulse, whether it comes from nuclear or geomagnetic disturbance. But it also overloads a lot of these little circuits. They believe that our interventions are useless and shouldnt have been done. We call it the Carrington Effect. With the Iranians, hes discovered thats not the case. You may say, I dont want to do Syria, but then, if you dont build the infrastructure, you cant do anything anywhere. We also know its critical for our international trade and our investments abroad for precisely the same reason. WebThe Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; ArtI.S8.C1.1 Taxing Power. We are concerned not only about the debate about defense that is taking place among conservatives, but also about whats happening to the defense budget. Men and women and their skills, capacities, and know-how continue to contribute about two-thirds of all economic growth. WebThe Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; ArtI.S8.C1.1 Taxing Power. What he said was that Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution is very relevant to our discussion. I know of no group out there that has the comprehensive inside impact on Congress as does Heritage, and I appreciate you very, very much. 
Being strong on national defense is not about writing blank checks for inefficiencies. But I think that true diplomacy and effective diplomacy has the ability to back up with capability anything that it expresses. We are rapidly becoming a culture where earning money doesnt entitle you to it, but wanting money does. Kim R. Holmes: I think there are some people in Congress and around the President who believe that since we were overextended, the best way to make sure we dont engage in these wars is just dont have the capability to do it. You dont get anything from your life insurance until you die and your kids could be destitute. That is precisely the same when we talk about defense. I dont want to overanswer this question, but I had the world summit on this issue. In some countries, it has been used as a basis for legislation promoting Constitution 101: To Provide for the Common Defense. Washington is interested in dealing with parties with non-violent politics. Maybe the State Department or Mr. Obama missed the Muslim Brotherhoods Supreme Guides memo last year when he declared holy war against America and Israel and stated that the U.S.A. is experiencing the beginning of its end and went on to castigate the Muslim world for not doing more to effect that end. WebDefinition. Thats the logic of geopolitics. The intent was to create a military that could protect the American public, but that would not be so powerful that it encroached on governmental affairs. So I believe in diplomacy. So when you ask a question, should we intervene here or not intervene here, the answer should be, lets do a clear-eyed analysis of what our interests are, whether or not we should do it, whether its feasible, and whether or not we can be successful. Thats why focusing on defense as an analyst, looking at this as an economist, is different by degree from looking at other impacts of reductions in federal spending. I want sufficient superiority in terms of our human resources, our human capital, and our technology that even the most idiotic of the despots out there would not think about attacking our country or moving on our interests. But when we think of insurance, we have to think of insurance first of all in that way. And it is a national security crisis because 47 percent of our debt is held by foreign interests, the lions share of that by China. Im reminded that sometimes, when we have faced challenges in the past, we didnt respond soon enough. The economists would say things like, You guys on the defense side want more bombs all the time; why dont you just use up the ones you have first instead of coming and asking for more? I always thought the best response to that was an analyst called Tom Ascik, who was a former Marine. The Senates Fiscal Year 2021 NDAA does this by strengthening American deterrence through investing in greater capabilities in support of priorities listed in the National Defense Strategy, and ensuring Americas service members are ready so, when challenged, they prevail in any conflict. Also during my tenure here, Ive been involved in debating budget control and how we look at budget cuts around the country. I live in Northwest Washington; every other neighbor I have is a lawyer. The final report of the National Defense Strategy Commission is a compilation of the assessments of the National Defense Strategy and recommendations based on its analysis related not just to defense strategy, but also to the larger geopolitical environment in which that strategy must be executed. We also know that when we look at our long-term interests in the United States, just like when we look at the climate for business over time and we think about investments of a commercial nature for the long term, we have to make sure that we can have a world where there is protection and securityAmerican securityto ensure that our longer-term interests are protected for commercial economic reasons as well as political and pure security reasons. and WebProviding for the common defense means providing resources, coordination and/or oversight that keeps the country safe from attack. Your presentations sparked a number of thoughts. This brazen bid for support from single mothers is what is driving our politics and our deficits. If were going to have effective diplomacy, particularly as a great power, weve got to have power behind it. Stuart has been pivotal in forming and guiding Heritage domestic policy research for more than 30 years. One, there are a lot of people on the left wing of the political spectrum, liberal internationalistsand I think our President is in this campwho are skeptical about Americas role in the world. When he was Vice President of Domestic and Economic Policy Studies at Heritage, he shaped the debate on health care, Social Security, welfare reform, and tax relief. Provide for the common defense The Framers were acutely aware that the new nation remained extremely vulnerable to attacks by foreign nations and that no individual state had the power to repel such attacks. Im going to leave you with a quote that they cited in a recent film in America that depicted an event in 1588 when Queen Elizabeth rode out to her army when they were facing a holy war from King Philips massive ocean-borne armada that came in superior force, and it looked like it was the end of England. What happens if we have to gut infrastructure in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, for example, and keep the flow of oil going? We have held this month-long series for four years now to highlight the importance of national defense to the country. People say, you look at defense, whats the probability? . [1] If you dont have security of contract, then you dont have high growth. Were kind of due for one of those, as you know, but they wanted to avoid the nuclear EMP issue. 
Lets figure out how to do that as efficiently as we can, and then that leads us to the amount of money we feel within the federal budget is appropriate for defense. Iran has called for Israel to be wiped off the map and for the utter annihilation of the Jewish state. If Iran gains nuclear capability, they will give it to terrorists the world over, and the entire human family will step into the shadow of nuclear terrorism. Let the government provide the guns for the national defense, and Americans own enterprise will provide the butter in abundance. If you look at the enumerated powers of the Constitution, it does mention providing for the common defense, but you would be hard put to find anything in there about providing for health and human services. 
They didnt have any capacity to hurt anybody, but they had this hellish ideology that they had a superior race and were willing to vanquish all others to try to gain its ascendancy. It was actually looking at economic policy, and particularly budget policy, with regard to how we can promote growth, how we can exercise fiscal control and so on. The way to think about defense as an economist is as insurance. We have a debt problem that is three dimensional. WebExamples of Insure Domestic Tranquility Example I The US Constitution specifies that racial segregation is against the law, which was further supported by the Supreme Court. With the SHIELD Act, well prevent that, and Im just hoping as much as possible that Heritage and other groups will make that issue known. Were a world power. There is strong reason to conclude that Iran is pursuing what could be their ultimate asymmetric weapon, a nuclear high-altitude electromagnetic pulse weapon, or an EMP capability. Wed rather spend the money on iPads and going to the movies and taking vacations in Cincinnati. She said: My loving people. He serves on the House Armed Services Committee and also on the Strategic Forces Subcommittee that oversees our nuclear arsenal, our missile defenses, and U.S. military assets in space. We know, because weve worked in Washington for so long, that just because a bureaucrat wears a uniform and has stars and so on doesnt mean theyre still not a bureaucrat. He pulled back, and they hate us just as much as they did before. There is, of course, the ongoing debate about cutting the defense budget. I really wanted to get a fresh perspective on an issue we havent talked about: how conservatives see the common defense.. WebFor example, calling the Confederations efforts to provide for the common defense and general welfare an ill-founded and illusory experiment, Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist No. . I would like to add a few points. It always seems to bring more danger than any of the diplomacy elements seem to prevent. To make common defense a national priority without giving too much power to one branch of government, they divided defense duties between Congress and the president. And, indeed, they did build a future and a family and a community and a nation. I know countless individuals who have lost their health and their wealth because they did not have health insurance. Not only does the bill provide a three percent pay raise for our troops and re-emphasize a focus on training to ensure service members can conduct missions safely, it also serves the interests of our military families and supports Arkansas's national defense personnel, installations and industry. Thats why it was essential to come together again and advance the NDAA to bolster our own military posture, enact policies that encourage deterrence, project leadership, and deploy innovative strategies to maximize advantages that serve our national security objectives, reassure our allies, and help defend our freedoms and ideals at home and abroad. That is a sensible strategy, bearing in mind the need for defense, to get the right capabilities and the right quality of personnel as efficiently as possible. So said former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen. The Founders recognized that, as George Washington famously said, To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. Fielding a first-rate military and exercising principled American leadership in the world depends on a robust economy. WebLatest Search American Contractor Killed in Drone Attack on Base in Syria Five service members and another U.S. contractor were wounded. The liberal media think the only time you want to use force is for humanitarian purposes. Today, to discuss this issue of how conservatives think about the common defense, we have two very distinguished gentlemenAmbassador Ken Blackwell and Dr. Stuart Butlerwith us, and well be joined shortly by Congressman Trent Franks. Therefore, I buy umbrella insurance because of the nature of the risk and the downside effect. But if that day is to be hastened, we must be very vigilant in the immediate years ahead, and most importantly, we must remember that it is not just a military threat that is our greatest danger: Its the water on the inside of the ship that sinks it. First, why is there this debt, and why is there deficit spending? We demobilized our armed forces; we pulled back; we went into a period of quasi-isolationism. That works for certain ideological people who dont want to do those kinds of interventions, but what happens if you really have to do something? Its not an either/or; its not that you can have high growth and low security; they must go together. [3]See Stuart M. Butler, Alison Acosta Fraser, and William W. Beach, eds., Saving the American Dream: The Heritage Plan to Fix the Debt, Cut Spending,, and Restore Prosperity (Washington: The Heritage Foundation, 2011), http://savingthedream.org/. Number one, for most people, on a day-to-day basis insurance is a waste of money. WebExamples of Insure Domestic Tranquility Example I The US Constitution specifies that racial segregation is against the law, which was further supported by the Supreme Court. Article I of the constitution establish how the government of the US can provide that defense in the second half of section 8: The Honorable Ken Blackwell. Then we estimate what kind of forces we need to defend our interests in those regions and how much they will cost. We frequently need to be reminded of this. 
The lesson is that it takes decades to build up the personnel and the trained soldiers and sailors to be as good as they are. Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld said weakness is provocative. You think about it as protection in the way that we think of other forms of insurance, and when economists look at insurance, there are some very important things to understand about levels of insurance and why insurance is important. These social issues are not the environmentalism of the Right; they are core issues on which our society will rise or fall. I believe in talking with people and doing everything we can to express a peaceful intent with everyone. Are we willing to invade Syria? So we had a lot of interaction with ordinary Americans about where we need to make savings. If youre a politician, it really is the feeling that you have. Particularly on the issue of national security, conservatives have been concerned about the number of threats we face. Kim R. Holmes: This is the final event in our 2012 Protect America Month. The most significant threat to our national security is the debt. It cannot coexist with freedom and liberty, and we must be as vigilant against this stealth jihad as we are against the military capabilities of violent jihad. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is still better to perish than to live as slaves. One of the things we discover in all these situations, whether it be talking about analysts at The Heritage Foundation or going around the country or talking to people in other groups, is that theres a big inclination to see reducing defense as the easiest option to deal with the challenge of federal spending. WebWe the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. The God of Jacob honored their courage, and the threat of the Nazis is now no more. Others have turned the phrase provide for the common defense into a similar justification for federal overreach. Thus, the need for a unified, coordinated effort to defend the nation would always be a vital function of the U.S. federal It does not define government powers or individual rights. We have only one issue now, and that is if Mr. Upton[6] will allow it to come to the floor; the leadership is ready to do it. Weve held a lot of good events both across the country and here at The Heritage Foundation. 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