
Here is a chart I made from Global Security's data
With apologies to Charlie Daniels, one of my favorite artists, a great American and proud Conservative.
“Iran, Cuba, Venezuela — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union.
They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat
to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they
were saying we’re going to wipe you off the planet,” Obama told voters in
Pendleton, Ore
You know, Iran, they spend one-one hundredth of what we spend on the
military. If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn’t stand
a chance. And we should use that position of strength that we have to be bold
enough to go ahead and listen,” he said.