Can you tell me how our Military has been strengthened?
Now come on, Bush has done a LOT to help the military. Increase funding across the board, and instead of closing bases that the military still wanted, they're consolidating ones that are not major, allowing more funding. And Bush has allowed for things the military needed for years with clinton and couldn't get. I no longer hear stories of Carriers at sea out of spare parts and having to jury rig something, for lack of funding for parts, and things like that, and I ALWAYS heard that kind of story from my military family and friends during the clinton years. The military is MUCH better and larger and more dangerous now than when clinton left office.
Thoush I still wish the New Jersey and Wisconsin were active BBGs for use as mobile force projection and close ground support, but I'm a hopeless romantic when it comes to that. Though the Navy does NOT have an effective large calibre shore bombardment platform, and the New Jersey and Wisconsin would give them that for a fraction of the price of building new assets. Plus, having active BBs is a huge morale builder in the Navy and adds a lot of pride as the only Navy on Earth to have them, but that day has passed.