We don't have a real opponent anymore. You cant buy gas for your weapons with Monopoly money.
We don't have a real opponent anymore.
True, but things change. Your analysis is based on the present status, the political regime presently in power (just barely). Let the left get back in power and we conservatives are not going to be so all-confident.
Imagine if the Vietnam anti-war appeaser and his party had gotten back in power. Clinton's dismantling of our military and nuclear capability would be minor compared to Skerry and the dims had they gotten in power.
In the days after WW1, Britain smug and confident, who could have foreseen the appeaser Chamberlain and the rise of Hitler in just a few years?