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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (256342)7/1/2008 9:28:03 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (1) of 793866
 
Is the U.S. equipped to deal with national-security problems around the world? Feith says no, pointing out the antiquated organization of our entire security community as well as the ineffective mess that is the CIA. Of course, our national security ultimately depends on the people in charge. Feith rates a few of the bigger names.

He missed the biggest reason of all.
Our military is too small.

If we brought all of our armed forces home and put all of them on our own border security, we would not have sufficient troops to do a credible job.
The US Border with just Mexico is 2,000 miles.
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