IN MY OPINION!!!!!!!!!.......we cannot spend enough on the military. They protect this country. They deserve to be as safe as possible. WE deserve to be as safe as possible.
I'd love to see a whole lotta stupid pork spending STOPPED and transferred to the military.
I disagree. There is a level of funding beyond which even the military expenditures can begin to approach "pork" status. Military funding, like all government funding, should be subject to close scrutiny. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen and we end up with budgets laden with pork (military and civilian) which neglect important things like body armor for our troops.
You can have Pork military spending too. I am sure there is plenty of that.
Let us think with our brains instead of our hearts. Our troops cannot be kept safe and at the same time seek and destroy the enemy through firepower, maneuver and shock. Force protection is not the mission. Every once in a while Hadji will do something right and accomplish his mission.
Accomplishing the mission is often detrimental to the welfare of some of the troops. Such has it always been. They would be much safer at Fort Hood, or Camp Pendleton, or Illesheim, but they can't do the job from there.
If WE deserve to be as safe as possible, then the maximum speed limit on the nation's highways would be 30 mph. think how many lives that would save. If it saves one life, wouldn't it be worth it?