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More sad is the fact we have about a third of the Naval power we had in the Gulf War. It's sad that due to these closings we had a ship transit the Suez alone two days away from any other United States Navy ship and after doing so a was attacked. It's sad we no longer have a 2 carrier group presense 24/7/365 where we have a national interest. We can not afford more closing of anything. We had fighters due to things like condition of readiness and distance that were unable to save the Pentagon from attack.

We are not in any sense near the military capibilities we had even under Jimmy Carter. We do not have those resources because two other POTUS and congress shut it down. And now we try for three at a time of war? Sometimes GOP does not know best nor do the Dems.

Think seriously for one moment. How quick can a replacement base be built in a time of war? It's like firing a companies trouble shooting department because at the present moment there are no problems. But wait all of the sudden there is a multitude of them. Where are the trained workers you had? The cost to build a new department, the cost of the loss while waiting, the cost of traing another group to that level of experience you fired? That description puts it in business terms so now maybe some can understand cause and effect of what has happened in the past 13 years to the military. This is what has been doen to our military since 1989 on. Both parties did it and neither are right.