"I am glad to hear that Beagles concurs with me that we are tossing a whole lot of dough into a ditch by giving it to the army. "
I did not mean to imply that. The US military doesn't need to be de-funded, it just needs to be redirected. Last I heard, many of the units being deployed to the Middle East are not regular Army, they are National Guard. The primary duty of the National Guard should be to guard our nation, not everybody else's. Of course the Guard may be called to federal service in times of emergency, but I wouldn't classify a foreign conflict that drags on inconclusively for a decade or two as an emergency. I am reminded of the sign posted in the office of my old boss at the bus garage: "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
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