[Flightdeck]

Clinton cut combat army divisions from 18 to 10, combat fighter wings from 24 to 12, and intelligence gathering assets by 40%, along with 800,000 combat personnel, all while assigning troops to Rwanda, Haiti, Bosnia, Somalia, under dubious circumstances to do nothing but occupy. It was LBJ's war strategy for purely political image. Clinton loathed the military (what would you expect from a draft-dodger) and succeeded in decimating US national security.

[AppyPappy]

Clinton squandered the military's money playing in places like Bosnia and Somalia instead of using that money to pay soldiers and buy equipment.

[bluecollarman]

Reminds me of some quotes:

"If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while."

"The story of Gen. McClellan illustrates dramatically
the impact a leader can have on the human spirit."

[Princeliberty]

I am really concerned that everyone is going
to draw a false conclusion form the Iraq
war-that US has not military problems at all.

The military is still and in fact is stretched
thinner than ever. Further, we have all this
clean war nonsense. We better not be fighting
a clean war with the likes of China. Further,
we continue to export high technology and capital
to China which it is using to build up its
war machine. We should still defeat China
but every improvement in their military capacity
means it will cost more American lives to do so
and increases the odds they we will have to fight
them, rather than them being too scared to ever
dare challenge us.

Also, we still have that crowd of Politically
correct generals and Admirals that raised
still in most key high level positions
and I don't have faith in them.