[TXnMA]

The time for this expansion should have been early 2002, when it became clear that al Qaeda would not be easily defeated and that other military campaigns would be coming.

Moosaki! The time to have corrrected this problem was when Clintoon was laying waste to our military! Give X-42 a M4 and put him on patrol in Falluja...

On point, of course, because no one in his right mind would trust him behind their back with a loaded weapon...

[kms61]

Granted, but the Bush administration has had nearly four years to correct the problem and evidently hasn't done much. At some point the responsibility has to lie with the people who can do something about it now.

[TechTrainer]

Let's not forget that it was George H. W. Bush who downsized the Army from 16 divisions to 12. Clinton only downsized further from 12 to 10 after the Pentagon recommended such a move.