So we can beat up ragheads armed with rusty rifles??
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I guess Russia and China don’t count, not to mention North Korea. “Strength through weakness” - that was Obama’s motto. There’s a new guy in office now who seems to believe the opposite ... as do most of us.
Russia is piling on hours on combat aircraft they can't replace since the Cold War and are now out of smart bombs.
North Korea uses ancient Vietnam era equipment like Chinese knockoffs of the Mig-17/19 and SA-2/3.
And China? Those land wars in Asia have turned out real well since 1950...
Strength doesn’t come from unfettered spending. That actually leads to weakness.
When we spend uncontrollably on billion dollar boondoggles, the shooters don’t get bullets and the tanks and ships don’t get maintenance.
So, before you insult people and underhandedly claim they don’t want strength, you might want to grow up and realize that unlike what children believe, money doesn’t grow on trees and we need to spend wisely.
It is unwise spend everything on a handful of pet projects to the detriment of core functionality like bullets and maintenance.
The Navy is put buying billion dollar “littoral” ships and the Air Force is buying billion dollar bombers; both are out of control spending.