Now, as for your point; you are so right.
This is why I am concluding that I have wasted a lot of time in replying to so many posts. There is little that can be said that will change their reality; I should have known that.
I can guess it must be terrifying for them, because their attitude wont allow them to see the forest from the trees. To them, the sky is really falling, and they will act accordingly.
They see nothing strange about calling someone like me un-american, after the career I just completed, doing the things that I have done. All that matters, is that I dont agree with them. Someone once told me that anyone can become a socialist; and I did not agree with him. I may have been mistaken.
We don't need a Navy anymore, Pukin. The Chinese have offered to rent us theirs. In five years.
This from someone who has spent 21 years in the DoD, the largest state-owned, socialist organization in the world? And who is contemplating becoming an airline pilot, one of the most highly-unionized, and hence overpaid, professions in the world?