Tuesday, March 03, 2009
What happened?
I have been reading testimony to the House Armed Services Committee on Iraq and Afghanistan. All the testimony points to needing more not less military involvement in the area. Something that stuck out like a sore thumb was the idea that we could not put any more soldiers into the area--essentiall because we don't have them.
There is something seriously wrong here. In WW II the US had a population of under 100 million if I remember correctly and we put over a million men into the war. We now have a population of over 300 million and we are stretched to have less than 200,000 men and women in the field.
We certainly have our priorities wrong. Protecting us and our allies from evil takes a back seat to doling out money to the undeserving. The money spent on welfare, bailouts, foreign aid, and waste could double or triple the salaries of our soldiers and make the military a desirable career.
The Vandals, the Visigoths, the Huns, and the Jihadists are coming, and Nero fiddles.
There is something seriously wrong here. In WW II the US had a population of under 100 million if I remember correctly and we put over a million men into the war. We now have a population of over 300 million and we are stretched to have less than 200,000 men and women in the field.
We certainly have our priorities wrong. Protecting us and our allies from evil takes a back seat to doling out money to the undeserving. The money spent on welfare, bailouts, foreign aid, and waste could double or triple the salaries of our soldiers and make the military a desirable career.
The Vandals, the Visigoths, the Huns, and the Jihadists are coming, and Nero fiddles.
// posted by Bill @ 8:50 AM 
