Even in 2005, government spending on these means tested welfare programs was 25% more than was spent on national defense, and that was at the height of the wars in the Middle East.
The arrival of President George W. Bush heralded both a reversal of the hollowing out of the military, along with wars in the Middle East, resulting in a temporary decline in the ratio of health to defense spending during most of his term.
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Players were then able to live through the most important battles of the wars in the Middle East.
What is unleashed today in the new Middle East is not the same as the wars Israel unleashed in the years since 1948.
If you look at the Middle East, there are wars and conflict that are rooted in arguments going back a thousand years.
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Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on the assumption that he would be the president who got the United States out of the wars in the greater Middle East that had cause so much dissent during the Bush presidency.
Since the 1970s, through oil shocks, Middle East wars, terrorist attacks and disease outbreaks, the number of passenger-miles flown seems always to have snapped back to its long-term growth trend (see chart 1).
Despite her injury and the mental scars that went with it, she plunged back into the fray, covering countless wars and upheavals all over the Middle East and elsewhere.
As for the wars in the Middle East that conservatives deem so essential to our survival, Obama at least initially escalated them.
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We had come together and voted for a candidate whose platform included universal health care, ending the wars in the Middle East and curbing climate change.
Obama strategist David Axelrod went so far as to tie Clinton to some responsibility for Benazir Bhutto's death for not doing more to stop Bush's wars in the Middle East.
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As we prosecute three tough wars in the Middle East and humanitarian relief in Japan, as we rely on weapon systems long past their prime, as we learn about new threats to our way of life daily, President Obama has announced plans to shrink our military that can only be described as historic.
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It is a venue which has welcomed countless political leaders and business executives, during internet booms and banking busts, in the midst of a Middle East crisis and even during the lead up to two Gulf Wars.
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The Middle East is the likeliest place to see the author's much-touted water wars.
The choice of Fallon is surprising: A naval officer with little experience in the Middle East, he will be leading two ground wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are predictions that countries such as India, China, and parts of the Middle East will run out of water and that wars will break out over supplies.
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We seek true peace, not just a pause between more wars and intifadas, but a permanent reconciliation among the peoples of the Middle East.
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