All this is happening as America continues to pour tens of billions of dollars into vast, baroque weapons programmes – the new stealth F-22 fighter, the Comanche helicopter, and the uprated F/A-18E/F fighter, not to mention missile defence. These weapons are of little relevance for the crushing of the "axis of evil" whose three members, Iran, Iraq and North Korea, have a combined military budget of just $12bn.Of course Afghanistan was a push-over, a poor, war-ruined country pummelled at will by its opponent in a military mismatch equivalent to Manchester United playing a pick-up village football team. Future foes, perhaps Iraq, will not be so swiftly overcome. China will undoubtedly become a more important military player. But for the foreseeable future the world must live with a Pax Americana, enforced by the mightiest military in history.
Which is it? We're building weapons we won't need because the enemies are too easy, or we can't judge ourselves a success in Afghanistan because the enemy was so easy and they will be a lot harder in the future?
Which is it? Are we over-prepared, or underprepared? These two paragraphs, in quick succession, illustrate that the writers of this "article" can't make up their collective europansy "minds".
What idiots.
What a bunch'o'barfalot.
Now they're telling us they know the proportion of Roman Empire military spending compared to global military "spending" in the ancient world.
They just hate America, that's all, and they line up a bunch of rubbish-bins full of random "ideas" in an attempt to make us look bad. They don't make us look bad. They make themselves look like idiots.
Europe = Stupid
The fundamental equation of the 21st century.
You left out a part of the equation.
Europe = Stupid + Gutless
The fundamental question of the 21st Century: When will the Europeans mind their own damned business, and stop trying to tell America what to do?