[ClearCase_guy]

Many years ago, as a callow youth, I felt that all we really needed were subs with nuclear missiles. We could be a tolerant, almost isolationist country -- but if anyone "crossed the line", we'd just nuke their capital.Make us really mad, we'll hit you more than once.

As I grew older, I decided that this was not a good approach.

But I think I'm back on it now. We can save a lot of money, and we can get out of the nation building game. We just announce where the line is and then we watch carefully. We tell Iran not to test a nuclear device. If they test a nuclear device, they lose Tehran within 12 hours.

You want to save money? This would do it.
You want to have a functioning military that can respond in a graduated fashion depending on the actual need? Well, then you need to spend money.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

When a nation has poor leaders, the people will pay the price in blood. It has been so for at least three millennia.

The United States is going to learn a very powerful lesson about the nature of the secular world, if we don’t get religion and soon.