Theirs. Which is why we need to get the Muslims out of the country. That is a domestic problem.
We've had one too many 9/11s. I don't want another one.
Then you have the wrong strategy. Despite spending TRILIONS on our military, they couldn't shoot down two unarmed subsonic planes within US airspace with nearly an hour's notice, something that could have been handled by a couple of guys with Stingers. 9-11 was not due to our lack of foreign intervention, but was due to a failure of emphasis upon the militia-based system our founders intended. Were every American male trained in military service, armed, equipped with communications, and empowered to make an arrest, 9-11 could never have happened. Without the FAA socializing the risk of crappy cockpit doors and unarmed pilots with their approval and disallowing armed citizens as passengers, taking over those planes would have been dicey.
You are dead wrong about 9-11.
I would MUCH rather put my money into Standard missiles, lasers, and other SDI assets than carriers, tanks, and heavy airlift capacity. I would also love to see proper inspection of container ships. Make them build a floating port and offload at sea for all I care. I'm NOT paying to defend the rest of the whole damned planet.
There are two reasons why we “couldn’t shoot down” those airliners on 9-11.
1. Our eyes were pointed outward for enemies, not inward
2. Our Air Defense forces had been cut down to SEVEN bases around the entire country, from the “peace dividend” after the fall of the Soviet bloc
So, we weren’t looking in the right places and when they did finally figure it out, we didn’t have the proper assets to deal with it.
Cut the military again? We’ll get more of the same.