In a world where “war on…” is the political solution, the way to propagandize to your citizens into believing that you are doing the utmost possible to confront the threats present and future your need for expanding military will never cease.

Rome went broke trying to keep the world under its military thumb. So are we.

If we truly wanted peace in the world the first action would be to leave the country we have just conquered to rule itself without our military present. If we want to dominate the country and keep our “war industry” alive we will stay and Occupy, i.e. leave a “peace keeping security force” in place.

However in the second case, our military “peace force” becomes the catalyst for unrest and conflict. It becomes the cause and reason for new violence and conflict. NO patriot wants another countries military in his country. NO terrorist will resist the easy temptation to point to our military in his or another country and say “aggressor”.

Our military needs to be given a mission statement by the President. It should be specific enough so that our commanders can then state what forces are needed to accomplish it.

We can always increase the budget, but if we plan to be able to meet every threat real and imagined, present and future, we better cut all the domestic spending and foreign aid as well as trillion dollar bailouts.

The President and Congress better realize soon that we can become a third world nation very soon due to financial profligacy even while being the worlds biggest military power.

In a world where “war on…” is the political solution, the way to propagandize to your citizens into believing that you are doing the utmost possible to confront the threats present and future your need for expanding military will never cease.

Rome went broke trying to keep the world under its military thumb. So are we.

If we truly wanted peace in the world the first action would be to leave the country we have just conquered to rule itself without our military present. If we want to dominate the country and keep our “war industry” alive we will stay and Occupy, i.e. leave a “peace keeping security force” in place.

However in the second case, our military “peace force” becomes the catalyst for unrest and conflict. It becomes the cause and reason for new violence and conflict. NO patriot wants another countries military in his country. NO terrorist will resist the easy temptation to point to our military in his or another country and say “aggressor”.

Our military needs to be given a mission statement by the President. It should be specific enough so that our commanders can then state what forces are needed to accomplish it.

We can always increase the budget, but if we plan to be able to meet every threat real and imagined, present and future, we better cut all the domestic spending and foreign aid as well as trillion dollar bailouts.

The President and Congress better realize soon that we can become a third world nation very soon due to financial profligacy even while being the worlds biggest military power.