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Harry[_2_]

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"Harry ?" wrote in message
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On 7/13/10 7:44 AM, BAR wrote:
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You were going to have a mission shift if we went into Afghanistan in
force. The original plan was a covert hit squad.

Who is "you"? Bush let Rumsfeld dictate a tiny army with no ability to
have
boots on the ground, despite the recommendations from the military.

The rhetorical you.
We are proving a huge army is not much more effective in the mountains
than a little hit team.

Most people have no concept of what the military is like and what it
requires.

Sure we do. The military is like a garbage disposal in which you pour $500
to $600 billion a year and then watch your money go down the drain.

Once we are out of the Bush Recession/Depression, and there are real jobs
around, we need to cut military spending by half, and, at the same time
raise pay and benefits substantially for a much smaller active duty force
that would be better suited for the sort of trouble and nonsense we face
today.

The $300 billion a year we'd save could go to far more important needs,
such as rebuilding infrastructure, funding schools properly, providing
life-long job training for working adults, et cetera.

These days, massive military expenditures get you...nothing.

Helps lifetime senior officers create their own little empires and makes the
favoured suppliers/contractors filthy rich.

Little buddy, you and I are just alike! We are cowards, so we never
thought of helping to protect our country, but we act like we know about
military procedure, etc.