But we still owe all this money for Iraq and Afghanistan.
And the worst thing for defense spending was the sequester.
Ben I agree the sequester was used to do things they wanted to do, but didn’t want to take responsibility for. They had to but, but did they cut welfare or domestic freebies? No. They gutted the military. It was a Leftist’s dream come true.
I will say this though, under Reagan we had a two theater level of military preparedness. Today we have perhaps one, if that.
We’re about to find out in short order how well that works for us.
Bush / Cheney really screwed us on that. Clinton let our armed forces dwindle to a one theater level, and then Bush came along. He should have fixed it. Instead he made it official policy.
We may very well see WWIII about 100 years after WWI, and for basically the same reasons, nobody to stand up to the evil men in the world.
And here I thought we learned our lessons in the last century. No. We’re about to do it all over again. Our youth will be sent into harms way, because at the end of the day, there is no choice. We stand up to evil men sooner or later. It best be sooner, or it’s in Dallas, Miami, Denver...
None of us wants that.