Neocons vs. Bob Gates, With Special Guest Appearance by KKK Founder

And did you get their justification for the F-22?

“The termination of the F-22 Raptor program at just 187 aircraft inevitably will call U.S. air supremacy — the salient feature, since World War II, of the American way of war — into question.

“The need for these sophisticated, stealthy, radar-evading planes is already apparent. During Russia’s invasion of Georgia, U.S. commanders wanted to fly unmanned surveillance aircraft over the region, and requested that F-22s sanitize the skies so that the slow-moving drones would be protected from Russian fighters or air defenses. When the F-22s were not made available, likely for fear of provoking Moscow, the reconnaissance flights were cancelled.”

I don’t know much about this incident aside from what’s presented here, but: It’s plainly ludicrous that the U.S. wanted to use expensive manned fighters to clear the skies for relatively inexpensive unmanned planes. A big reason drones were created was to provide inexpensive, low-risk methods of observing (and attacking) enemy movements. The idea that F-22s were needed to protect them sounds like make-work efforts by Air Force chiefs determined to show off the usefulness of their favored toy.

In any case, Donnelly and Schmitt correctly point out that the reason the U.S. didn’t use the F-22s was not because there weren’t enough to ensure air supremacy, but because the U.S. didn’t want to provoke Moscow. Despite the big talk at the time about how “we’re all Georgians now,” the fact of the matter is that almost nobody in the mainstream of American politics — including President Bush — thought we should go to war over the matter.

Quoting that particular aphorism of General Forrest is reasonably common in the US military, because what he did after the war had nothing to do with the utility of his observation. The larger problem with the editorial is the confusion over the technologies involved. Today's M1s and M2s have been so upgraded recently that they're very modern machines. You're correct to observe that the F-35 will effectively replace the F-15, and that's a fine choice to make. The Navy will not be stripped of ships: it will still be larger than the next 13 navies put together, most of which belong, as Mr. Gates reminded us in his article in Foreign Affairs, to allies of the US. These two guys are grumpy, but their choice of catchy saying is unhelpful not for the source, but its inapplicability. It's just impossible to argue effectively that US forces will be inadequately equipped on this budget when the US is outspending all its potential military rivals put together.

[...] Spencer Ackerman puts it, while Tom Donnelly and Gary Schmitt don’t much like the Gates/Obama defense budget they do [...]

What good did all our hardware do us on 9/11?

How did our 7,000+ foreign military outposts protect us on 9/11?

What good did thousands of tanks and armored personel carriers save us from people with boxcutters?

Same as it failed against slingshots and sharpened bamboo in Vietnam, same as the british empire failed against the pikes and squirrel guns of the colonists.

ASK SOME BASIC QUESTIONS!

Why did we buy the expanded security plan from the home security people whose vast capabilities did us no good when criminals broke into our home to murder our children?

Why does common sense never apply to the existence of the military, rather than just the cataclysmically expensive “programs and systems”.

Personal ownership of firearms makes this country the most armed place in the world, the citizenry is already the “fustest and the mostest”, abolish all ground forces and related equiment systems.

The point of the second amendment is that we shouldn't be excessively taxed to pay for an army.

The real Tea parties were to oppose taxes to pay for the wars started by the inbred aristocracy of far off Europe.

So, we've had the F-22's in our arsenal for how long, and despite more than a couple opportunities, have yet to deploy them? What a boondoggle. If I were the AEI'ers, I don't think I'd lean to heavily on Forrest's 'get thar fustest with the mostest line. That didn't seem to work out too well for the Confederates'

[...] are experiencing “paranoia“ [...]

James, I think you missed the point of why Spencer cited the connection between the general's quote and the KKK. Along with the rest of the Journ 'O' List children, Spencer thinks calling someone a racist is a trump card, an intellectual killer app. No need to counter an argument with logic. Just find a way to suggest your opponents are racists and YAY I WIN!

[...] on April 8, 2009 by Joe Tobacco I’ll tell you, I’ve actually become so inured to this sort of thing that it rolls off my back anymore: Tom Donnelly and Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise [...]

To add to James Hasik's point, what's up with that ridiculous bit of liberal snark every time somebody quotes Forrest? People who say “the bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed” aren't implying an agreement with Joseph Goebbels' politics, are they? Are they closet Nazis if they attribute the quote to Goebbels, but morally and socially acceptable if they don't? I first realized that Bob Somerby was right about Keith Olbermann going down hill when he named somebody worst person in the world for using that quote a few years ago. It's just silly.

What good did all our hardware do us on 9/11?

How did our 7,000+ foreign military outposts protect us on 9/11?

What good did thousands of tanks and armored personel carriers save us from people with boxcutters?

Same as it failed against slingshots and sharpened bamboo in Vietnam, same as the british empire failed against the pikes and squirrel guns of the colonists.

ASK SOME BASIC QUESTIONS!

Why did we buy the expanded security plan from the home security people whose vast capabilities did us no good when criminals broke into our home to murder our children?

Why does common sense never apply to the existence of the military, rather than just the cataclysmically expensive “programs and systems”.

Personal ownership of firearms makes this country the most armed place in the world, the citizenry is already the “fustest and the mostest”, abolish all ground forces and related equiment systems.

The point of the second amendment is that we shouldn't be excessively taxed to pay for an army.

The real Tea parties were to oppose taxes to pay for the wars started by the inbred aristocracy of far off Europe.

So, we've had the F-22's in our arsenal for how long, and despite more than a couple opportunities, have yet to deploy them? What a boondoggle. If I were the AEI'ers, I don't think I'd lean to heavily on Forrest's 'get thar fustest with the mostest line. That didn't seem to work out too well for the Confederates'

[...] Good catch by Spencer Ackerman. [...]

James, I think you missed the point of why Spencer cited the connection between the general's quote and the KKK. Along with the rest of the Journ 'O' List children, Spencer thinks calling someone a racist is a trump card, an intellectual killer app. No need to counter an argument with logic. Just find a way to suggest your opponents are racists and YAY I WIN!

To add to James Hasik's point, what's up with that ridiculous bit of liberal snark every time somebody quotes Forrest? People who say “the bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed” aren't implying an agreement with Joseph Goebbels' politics, are they? Are they closet Nazis if they attribute the quote to Goebbels, but morally and socially acceptable if they don't? I first realized that Bob Somerby was right about Keith Olbermann going down hill when he named somebody worst person in the world for using that quote a few years ago. It's just silly.

[...] op-ed for the Wall Street Journal the other day (I mentioned it here), and Ackerman blasts them as “neocons” and KKK [...]

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