Posted on 12/29/2010 8:00:50 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe
I’m not interested in your childish fantasies.
Childish fantasies? That's rather insulting; I have presented my case with some reasoning and I well admit that I may be in error regarding either my logic OR my assumptions/facts; I readily admit that I might be in error. You, however, are not challenging or addressing these and this [last post] seems to have much the same attitude as a child yelling "that's your opinion!" at someone while stopping up their own ears.
If I am reading too much into this (after all it is text, and as such does not carry nonverbal cues), then consider my rebuke as nothing.
You want to create a fantasy part time militia in your head to deal with 21st century warfare capable nations.
Like this childish fantasy. “That’s actually the easy part: make such assignments rotate among the various state National Guards.
This benefits two ways: it keeps such posts manned AND it keeps trained personnel in-practice.
So you think it would be untenable even if the rotations were 3- or 6- months at a time?
I told you that it was a faulty assumption to keep the current “one weekend a month, two weeks a year” AND do the rotations; but I do believe that it is doable with longer terms of service.
In fact, if we were to abandon our foreign entrenchments like Germany and Japan we could probably reduce the rotation times to a month.
And, as I said earlier, MUCH of the “foreign attack” interdiction should be handled by the Navy which _IS_ supposed to be standing/active according to the Constitution.
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