[cva66snipe]

There's only one viable way I see to handle the Middle East and give our troops and sailors any relief from these annual call ups. Return the MED SEA Operations Area to a Cold War strenght force. Place At least one other carrier group in or very near the IO 24/7/365 as well. This of course means a build up. That is needed anyway after the overzealiousness in the RIF's of the military in the past 12 years.

But to be realistic about it we either need to do this or stay home. The ships, the crews, the special forces, and others are being over deployed, over extended, and spread way too thin. A long term solution is a return to Cold War era patrols and presense. At least we would be on station and strikes within hours or days and not weeks to months. We should be able to handle our own matters with our own equipment. Congress should see to it we can.

[Robert Drobot]

"....The ships, the crews, the special forces, and others are being over deployed, over extended, and spread way too thin...."

Intentional frustration. Pure and simple. Targeting the command structure of our armed forces to eliminate our best and brightest. Pentagon globalists have no problem tossing the best and brightest to a UN command hierarchy that has no respect for America, or our troops.

Shed the pretenders, or watch them achieve their goal - erosion of America's might to a shell of what it was once upon a time.

The real war is not beyond our borders. Our greatest threat, our greatest enemy, is not external.