Posted on 02/25/2014 3:26:45 PM PST by neverdem
I don’t think Kerry should be acting as the agent for the Palestian Authority either. A true Washingtonian policy would require avoidance of such meddling as the “Mideast Peace Process”.
In 1940 the United States Army had 269,023 active duty personnel. The population of the country at that time was 132.12 million.
Today we have 316.99 million in the U.S. To keep the same ratio, the Army should have 645,404. I am glad to see you support a robust defensive posture.
Not to worry. All we need is another relic from that era, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, to outlaw war and then this won’t be an issue.
The government as a whole should be cut back to a pre-WW2 level.
Cut the overall size of the federal government (except the military) by 60%, and things in this country will improve.
In fact, let’s start a petition on that white house page calling for 0bama’s pay and benefits to be cut back to pre-WW2 levels. Let that pompous ass live on 75k a year.
“Large armies are for the purpose of invading other countries. With our blessings of geography, we do not have to invade other countries to defend our land.”
We didn’t have a large Army when we were invaded in 1812, in fact we were totally unprepared.
And today, we are being invaded by people who seek to “reconquer” what they think was “taken” from them.
The force structure that empERROR zero wants isn’t even enough to secure the border with mexico.
We went from 28 Divisions (18 active, 10 national guard) down to 10 active and 8 national guard.
Overall the size and scope of the government needs to be cut, but not at the expense of the military. If anything the military budget needs to be doubled, and the Army should be brought back to at least 14 active divisions and 14 national guard divisions with war stocks available to double those numbers if needed.
There are hundreds of government agencies and commissions that need to be eliminated or cut back.
“You are correct with your analysis. One day, the name of Chuck Hagel will be uttered among Americans with contempt. He will go down in history as the worst SECDEF of all time.”
It’s hard to imagine that there is someone who makes les aspin look GOOD.
Ok, to control the borders we have you say...
IF we placed our military on the border with mexico, it would take an Army ten times it’s current size to effectivly seal off the border.
In 1812 we had no navy to speak of. The air and sea defenses of our land should be maintained. We don’t need a large army to bleed the life of the nation away on the other side of the globe.
We need a large Army to not only seal the southern border, but to also act as a DETERRENT. Much like a strong Navy, Air Force, and nuclear forces also act as deterrents.
It goes right back to Teddy Roosevelt and his “Big Stick” theory. The one with the big stick (who also has the will to use it when the time comes) is never the one who gets eff’ed with.
And how many times does history have to repeat itself? It has happened time and time and time and time again where our military gets gutted, some nutcase starts some crap somewhere and we get dragged kicking and screaming right into the middle of it all because of nutcase A, B, or C thinks he can get away with it because we’re too weak to do anything about it.
north korea and iran developing nuclear weapons.
russia and china rapidly building up their military forces.
Why? Because they ALL see the weakness like pee running down the leg of a coward coming from the White House.
They’re building up while little lord barry neuters our military through social engineering, eliminating key officers, troop and equipment cuts, etc, etc.
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