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Default Once again, the military establishment proves...


"Harry ?" wrote in message
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On 7/13/10 8:26 AM, YukonBound wrote:


"Harry ?" wrote in message
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On 7/13/10 7:44 AM, BAR wrote:
In ,
says...

You were going to have a mission shift if we went into Afghanistan
in
force. The original plan was a covert hit squad.

Who is "you"? Bush let Rumsfeld dictate a tiny army with no ability
to have
boots on the ground, despite the recommendations from the military.

The rhetorical you.
We are proving a huge army is not much more effective in the mountains
than a little hit team.

Most people have no concept of what the military is like and what it
requires.

Sure we do. The military is like a garbage disposal in which you pour
$500 to $600 billion a year and then watch your money go down the drain.

Once we are out of the Bush Recession/Depression, and there are real
jobs around, we need to cut military spending by half, and, at the
same time raise pay and benefits substantially for a much smaller
active duty force that would be better suited for the sort of trouble
and nonsense we face today.

The $300 billion a year we'd save could go to far more important
needs, such as rebuilding infrastructure, funding schools properly,
providing life-long job training for working adults, et cetera.

These days, massive military expenditures get you...nothing.


Helps lifetime senior officers create their own little empires and makes
the favoured suppliers/contractors filthy rich.



And when they retire, they go to work for the contractors.


Where did you and your little ball licker gain your military expertise?




 
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