Seems to me that in the very early 1990's, the Military was primed to handle one major conflict in the world, and with help from allies, a second one....
BUT then didn't the Clinton Adm cut the Military budget by 30%...? Ships, arms, tanks, and numbers of people?
Also, if that is the case, then Rumsfeld and the Bush Adm was really dealt a harsher than deal when 8 1/2 months after they took office ~~~ 9-11 happened.
Bush has not vetoed much of anything until just recently, amd I fault him for that. Did McCaffrey say exactly this at the beginning of 2001? Or had he (or any of the other Generals) said anything during the Clinton Adm when the Budgets were cut so drastically?
While talking with hubby today about this, he said that what Bush has done is brilliant.... We have 3 choices to try to root out violent Islamofascism....
1) Take it to all the countries where these people are coming from. (Obviously we can't do that....the Wahhabi/Salafi are everywhere, teaching "you believe and do it our way, or you die" thought...)
2) We could do nothing. That's not an option.
3) We could make sure that as many as possible of the foreign terrorists see Iraq as a target, and that as many as possible go there, so we can take care of them.
When we think about that in these simplistic terms, it does seem to make all sorts of sense. |
