[quesney]

"You are right in part, but the bottom line is that at this moment, we absolutely are not capable of a large-scale land war in Asia. NK will have to be dealt with in other ways, whether it's behind the scenes pressure on the ChiComs, arming Japan, or whatever. There are military realities here"

You know, I just don't get how it is that we spend have a trillion dollars a year and find ourselves limited in obvious scenarios like these. What the heck are we spending all of this money on if not for our own defense and obvious scenarios like war with China/NK?

[LS]

Er, that's easy: we're spending that money so that we ONLY have 2,500 casualties while fighting a global enemy on multiple fronts and, at the same time, maintaining a sufficient threat that ALL the NKs do is launch a few stupid missiles into the sea. I'd say that's a bargain.

Most of the stuff we built in the Cold War never fired a shot . . . and that was a bargain too. The best weapon made is the one that doesn't need to be used.