Paul just doesn’t get the value of armed force. Reduce it arbitrarily, and you get unintended consequences. Such as Britain’s decision to reduce the size of then Royal Navy in 1922. That, as much as anything else, nearly cost them the war in 1940. But we seem to be doing the same thing now. China is moving into a vacuum.
The US will have to spend a trillion per year for eight years just to fix the defense damage Obama and his treasonous comrades will do by January 2013.
China leaders are scared of their own people and the thought of going to war with them is childish at best.