[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 28 (Tuesday, March 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH AS OPPOSED TO INSTABILITY THROUGH WEAKNESS

  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, Presidents Bush and Reagan brought down the 
Berlin Wall with a defense policy that was called peace through 
strength. They built up our military, rebuilt declining forces, and 
they forced the Soviet Union to the bargaining table, and they, by 
doing that, brought stability to the world.
  Mr. Speaker, despite President Clinton's own Joint Chiefs of Staff 
recommending that he spend more money on defense to give the right kind 
of equipment to these young troops that he is deploying all over the 
world, he has refused to do that. His new defense budget has come down. 
It drastically cuts the new equipment that his own people recommended 
he give to his troops, and this President apparently follows a policy 
of instability through weakness.

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