Anyone who is serious and honest about reducing the United States Government's spending has to look hard at the grossly bloated military budget. Those who refuse to examine greatly reducing our warfare budget are just using all this talk and negativism as a way to hurt the Democrats and Obama, and then to reduce those programs which help normal middle class Americans, such as social security and medicare.
Now Barney Frank and Ron Paul have teamed up to encourage a big reduction in military spending. Why do we still need thousands of troops in Japan, Italy, or Germany? The military lifers in command are living in the past – the cold war era. Once we remove ALL combat troops from Iraq in the very near future, why on earth do we still need to keep 50,000 non-combat troops there?
No one with half a brain believes that we will “win” the war (quagmire) in Afghanistan. In private everyone knows we are going to lose yet another war. But no one in Washington D.C. has the balls to even talk about pulling the plug on Afghanistan-Pakistan. Most of all our weak and detached President. The era when America's defense budget could protect Japan, Western Europe, and all our other foreign allies is long gone. Yet the dinosaurs in Washington, D.C. simply cannot bring themselves to recognize this.
During the late 1960's I hated Lyndon Johnston because of his refusal to pull the plug on the Vietnam quagmire. Now I see him much differently. Ten years into the twenty-first century we are at the point of continuous warfare. We go from one war right to the next. And we used to win wars; now we seem to always lose them.
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