Sequester! It's out there in the dark, waiting to take dollars away from defense. Fox had Sen Lindsey Graham on this morning talking against sequester. He harked back to the early days of WWII when our troops had to drill with broomsticks, before the country got tooled up for war.
I want to hear about how much real strength we have today and how much we really need. Anyone know where I could find the number of combat soldiers, tanks, artillery pieces, Navy warships, fighter planes, aircraft carriers, helicopters and transport aircraft the US military owns today? And how many it would own under sequester?
Then we could have a public debate over how much we ought to have. After fixing the amount of arms and armed men we ought to have, then appropriate enough money to pay for it.
The Congresscritters are debating how many dollars to pour into defense, not how much defense we ought to have. Many of them are thinking about how much nice defense money will fall into their districts.
Dollars don't bear arms.
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