Frankly, I feel safer with my fellow volunteer Americans than the bloated shadow military, which has proven capable of projecting power around the world, and more of a danger than protection to Americans at home.
You clearly haven't read the links I posted
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You'd realize the "affirmative duty" you speak of was violated by dereliction and possible criminal activity before and during 9/11 and demands investigation. The CIA officers meeting with OBL, in the M.E. and in Paris after he had been declared a wanted man demand investigation, not obfuscation. That's just one of dozens of things in the referenced chronology.
Military action like Operation Enduring Freedom work great - they are trustworthy and effective.
The real dereliction is Congress failing to investigate the largest danger to our security - a corrupt and incompetent secret military branch that fails to perform the most important protection - that of detection and disclosure.
Hell, in the 1-1/2hrs after three planes, then four, were hijacked and known by FAA, how did the government end up taking so little action? In the past, presidents have been notified immediately of a single hijacking. For some strange reason this was an exception. For obvious reasons those involved don't want any investigation, even tho' it bears directly on our present and future safety.
The result is volunteer American civilians on Flight 93 did more than the entire "trust me" military and government.
What needs investigation are the "trust me" shadow military and government branches that fail to protect and place themselves themselves above the law and the citizens they work for.
We need a trustworthy intelligence service. The current leadership needs to be swept clean. Neither their budget nor their Congressional oversight has any credibility.
The defense department is over-funded to the extent of losing track of a trillion dollars worth of toys and expenses. It will definitely benefit from rehab by Rumsfeld.
Congress doesn't need much time to authorize the expenses you mention to "acquire resources", as you say - that's a done deal. What Congress needs spend their time doing is find out why this happened, what failures occured in the multi-trillion-dollar defense expenditures that were supposed to protect us against the "major threat of terrorism", as was announced in early 1990s. |
