I’m sorry but some of you are dangerously ignorant of military reality.
You think I am somehow siding with obama because I don’t want our conventional weaknesses to lead to a nuclear exchange?? Did it ever occur to you that I don’t give a rat’s ass if we could just nuke China without consequences after they defeat us in Asia?
I guess it never occurred to you that a nuclear exchange includes them nuking us. You don’t have to get there if you don’t lose conventionally in the first place. You don’t want to get there. IMHO conventional weakness may eventually lead to a devastating nuclear war with the Chinese, or else a huge loss of our World position.