The Clinton Legacy is garbage as far as I'm concerned. I must (gag, puke, choke) defend the @ss on this one though. GHB and Cheney of all people, started the major downsizing of the military. The democraps were more than happy to oblige, but the military itself and the President went along with it, said we needed to downsize and they did a great job. In fact, Rumsfeld is still trying to downsize our active military. I think we need to voice our opinions about this.
Not to me. The BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) commission did meet in 1991 for the first time (and with good reason, IMHO), but its work was accelerated during the reign of the Impeached Rapist. Not to mention the sleazeball couldn't even keep his trousers up while deploying troops (probably to deflect attention from his numerous domestic problems).
Huge standing army is a threat to freedom and prosperity. It was necessary to face the global Communist enemy. After collapse of Soviet block (caused in part by excessive costs of arms race) the downsizing is the only sensible thing. America should keep a few key bases abroad and have a moderate size agile military able to respond quickly and efficiently againt precisely selected targets.
Blind indiscriminate lashing out is a sure way to squander ones strenght and to lose.