If the US is not "predominant," then who is?
Your rant reads like a Duncan Hunter wet dream, funding programs that even the military doesn't want any more.
Do you work for a defense contractor?
The Communists. If you note, the Russians still have a First Strike weapons force with the SS-18, and the new Topol-M rolling off of a hot weapons line. They also have a National Missile Defense already, with not just the Moscow System of 200 interceptors around Moscow...but 8,800 SAM-300s around the periphery of the country. All NMD capable. And they have sold at least 800 to China now too.
Meanwhile the U.S. has its ass hanging naked in the breeze...just waiting to be sucker-punched again like 9-11. Bush even had the gall to sign the Treaty of Moscow which had an attached Strategic Framework Agreement that Putin insisted on that kept the U.S. NMD intentionally limited into futility.
I would also commend to your notice, the complete inattention to the very real danger to our country of an EMP attack. The Administration just doesn't take civil defense preparedness seriously. They appear to be almost completely wed to the idea of defense being obsolete as a practical matter, while giving their "limited national missile defense" only lip-service for political vote-getting purposes. Hence they kept the Strategic Framework Agmt secret from the public.
Your rant reads like a Duncan Hunter wet dream,
That would be a high honor. As you know, few are worthy to tie that fine gentleman's shoes. I would support him, or any combination of Peter Hoekstra or Curt Weldon for a vice presidential run along with either J.D. Hayworth or Tom Tancredo for President.
Of course, your idea of "wet dreams" apparently is equal to anything even slightly more than "totally deficient spending on national security". I.e., you don't regard national security is the primary duty and constitutional requirement of the CIC. Sloughing it is not a legitimate object of the CIC. That was one of the main failings that Xlinton destroyed his own popularity and sank Al Gore's campaign.
funding programs that even the military doesn't want any more.
Like what, in particular are you saying the military doesn't want? An NMD that actually defends us? The military only wants what is TOLD it wants. There is no "independence." Look at how the administration got the Pentagon to CANCEL, the TBM, THEL, dismantled all the MX and half the Minuteman's has the Navy at well under where Jimmy Carter had it, 286 ships and 55 subs, and it was damn near cancelling the F-22. This is just the short list of things the Administration has done to neglect defense.
Do you work for a defense contractor?
Do you? Unlikely. Doesn't sound like you know what you are talking about.
And spending on the WOT is not a substitute for preparedness. Al Queda is hardly the mortal threat that Russia, China, and Iran/NK Axis are. It is merely one of their little proxies. Yet the Bots seem to think it is. Their tunnel-vision is entirely predictable.