If we can bail out banks and wage wars that run up huge deficits, we can surely take care of our own, wounded in an act of terrible violence at a public event.
Meanwhile, aides to Levin declined to elaborate on the statement Clinton made during Thursday night's debate, directing attention instead to remarks made during the pre-war run up.
After the Civil War, local county governments had run up huge debts to build railways and modernise the state.
Having decided to wage an ill-judged war, the cartel has now run up the white flag.
The war on terrorism has helped run up the federal deficit, which is driving Democratic criticism of the economic stimulus plan.
Complicity, careerism, access, ratings, deregulation, glory, money, corporate and conglomerate media... the reasons behind our pusillanimous press coverage of the run up to the financial meltdown are much the same as those underlying the run up to war - and so are the results.
What do you call a president who wages war under false pretenses, runs up a record deficit, kowtows to religious conservatives at every turn, ignores global warming and alienates many of America's longstanding allies?
There are others, however, who believe Sir Edward did not do nearly enough to silence the drumbeat of war in the years running up to the start of the conflict.
In short, following such a Cold War-Lite strategy, the United States could have avoided getting bogged down in costly, non-strategic wars in Korea and Vietnam and running up huge debts for a peacetime U.S. military build up during the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
But this is not the sort of thing you say unless you are running up to war.
The Napoleonic wars, the run up to World War I, and the run up to World War II reveal that the established power and the rising power do not bump into each other with a bang in the revolving door.
