Hi Lazarus Long
"Wait until DOD is prefect before going after bin Laden, et al?"
Thought we already were going after those evil-doers ... Somebody's over there causing the takeover of Afghanistan.
Somebody's spending $30b/month for DOD around the world
Sure, we'd need a few hundred thousand more troops if we barge into "Axis of Evil" ground wars, but we've seen those days are over and that would be dumb.
Better to use SpecOps, air power and the locals.
Better still, hit hard, declare victory, and disengage foreign entanglements, in places everywhere that grow like barnacles. Such is the unlimited financial kindness of the American insider spending taxpayer money. Today's news for example:
sfgate.com
barely even a pretense of excuse for spending what must seem to this administration like a puny $98 million, defending Occidential Petroleum's pipeline in Columbia, with $$ already-appropriated TO FIGHT DRUGS. BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MONEY SLOSHING AROUND WE GOTTA USE IT SOMEWHERE !! Even if it's blatant contribution to private oil company sucking one of the thousand tits of DOD. A thousand of these casual quick little kickbacks a year gets you $98b, a trillion in 10 years.
Then: "Oops! Sorry Senator, we lost the accounting! It was the previous administration!"
Well, better to give gov't kickbacks to Bush friends in the oil bidness than drug wars that kill people directly
The next scandal on our list - intel analysis, not "connecting the dots", for some strange reason, even knowing a huge amount of data in this particular case. That's not fixed with another $100b in gadgets or platoons of warriors.
That's fixed by this: firing the arrogant excuse-mongers at the top of CIA who should be drop-kicked across Capital Mall for their massive insults to the American people.
You can read about some of the internal bumbling and outright unprosecuted treason here:
amazon.com
and updated for the period leading up to 9/11
"If CIA and the government weren't involved in the September 11 attacks what were they doing?"
copvcia.com
My original point is: everything shows there's too much money, too little focus on what counts, too many maniacs eager to cash in quick.
Before approving of hundreds of billions in fancy new spending better to think about Flight 93 - civilians who did more than the entire government to stop terrorism on 9/11 - volunteer Americans with cell phones. |
