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To: macavity who wrote (44464)	1/9/2004 8:09:07 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The US hasn't yet realize the tables have turned. It could have pulled out the troops from Europe and demobilized. 1) Transfromed the military on a professional fighting force. 2) Remade their foreign policy to adapt to the post-Cold War era. 3) Sacked the military strategists with their Cold War mindset and replaced by people better educated in the new realities. They didn't because: 1) Too many enterprises depend on the Armed Forces' budget. 2) Government used Armed Forces as pseudo jobs to the unemployed. Closing army bases hurt politricians in the states in question. 3) The fat cat bureaucracy in DC is a too strong lobby 4) They don't unbderstand the world outside the US -unless was the black and white Cold War terms. No wonder they have got stuck. 1) They had to create enemies to fit int heir war games startegy: Libya, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan. Or Minows like Panama and Granada. 2) Putting them against a real determined fighting force they don't last 5 minutes. 3) Soldiers will deband 'en masse' since they are soldiers as pseudo jobs not to be shoot at. (Watch, this will be the biggest problem for the US in Iraq. Unless the economy is so bad that the only way is to re-enlist and get USD10K as bonus).