Debate Some Doctrine
If Barack Obama wants to truly improve American national security, he should encourage a wide-ranging -- and public -- debate over military doctrine and strategy.
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I'm definitely tired of the politics of fear and I by no means condone either fear-mongering or war-mongering., but there is a great danger in ignoring or denying the warning signs when they are in plain view. If I was an enemy of the USA at this point in history, I would be watching and waiting for the perfect moment to strike...the moment when this country is at its most vulnerable. There are many factors and variables that are in progress of lining up against us. We're already overstretched militarily and economically...but most important of all...we're overstretched strategically. That giant industrial engine that once provided the arsenal of democracy some 70 years ago is GONE...never to return. Once our first line of ordnance and personnel is expended, we have nothing left and no way to replace it fast enough. Our jugular would be exposed and we'd be at the mercy of many formerly lesser powers that would be only too happy to see us vanquished. Our ultimate firewall? Well...hitting THE panic button of course means EVERYBODY loses. The ultimate Pyrrhic victory that only lunatics would want. The world has somehow managed to live with this dilemma since 1945 under the MAD doctrine, but the situation has now morphed and mutated into something too hideous to speak out loud.
Not a very pretty picture, but space is too limited here to continue much further. One word: preemptive.
Say,...didn't the Neo-Cons try to scare the cr@p out of us a few years back with the whole Anthrax letter thing and then the Ricin powder thingy?....
Yeah, they did.....
Been there, seen it...watched nothing happen.
Just like the economy and white supremacists. We're all ready ....yep...we're all ready to deal with it.
You might not like the WAY we deal with it....this time...but we're all ready.
Nothing happened not counting the deaths due to the anthrax attack. No big deal. it wasn't you.