"Our allies meanwhile have been cutting their defense budgets reducing their military capabilities to the level of constabulary forces while enjoying 10 weeks of vacation every year, with the French sandbagging us at every turn."
They are 'allies', they are free riders on Pax Americana.
Sorry "they are NOT allies" is what I meant to say ...
Also,
"Congress must support the Administration with both its intelligence programs and terrorist detainees and pass laws that give the President the capability to prosecute this war, get the criminologists and apologists out of the way, and put the Supreme Court back in its box."
I believe that this is the NUMBER ONE issue. Military spending is not of great importance if the threat is one that cant be defeated by conventional arms.
The threat requires an intelligence-oriented response.