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To: RMF who wrote (68804)	1/24/2014 9:24:09 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 71588

yea, there is way too much "help" on the federal level... the "fat cutting" has JUST STARTED... everything will be on the table at some point I suppose, one would hope the military would be very high on the "hit parade"... it's completely a waste in it's current state... you would think 911 would have been a wake up call: 911 was a viral attack, they "hijacked" (literally) our own machinery, just like a virus does. Not only is the current military spending negligible (compared to it's size, which is stupid) on this level, it's negligible on the bacterial level too... in fact, the current state of the military is like using surgery against a virus, it's completely insane. We also seemingly learned little from Benghazi, and Lebanon before that (although Reagan at least used common sense and hi-tailed it outta there). Our bases and embassies around the world are going to continue to be prime targets as the word economies resume their meltdown. We should probably go to a "regional embassy" model, where one embassy for a group of unstable countries is housed in a neighboring stable country. Who knows why these clowns can see what's happening, probably because they are too busy throwing stones at each other in Washington. DAK