Pentagon's own study says Army near breaking point.
 

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It's tough to pass this off as liberal spin being that it came from a report comissioned by the Pentagon. So, and ignoring the question of whether going into Iraq was the right thing to do in the first place, what should our military priorities be? Continue in Iraq? Iran? North Korea? Obviously we can't police the entire world ourselves - what do we do next?

It's a report, not a study. Your title is misleading.

It does say study, after I re-read it. Sorry, Pujo, my mistake.

NEM calm down, you are spelling a bunch of stuff wrong in your recent posts. It will be okay, really, it's only a internet forum. Take your meds and a nap.

We home and quit making up enemies so the fat cats at General Dynamics and Raytheon can make up new toys to play with. We need to look at terrorism more intelligently and use our market and technology power to influence world events. We have to stop thinking that wherever there's a problem, we solve nothing permanently by sending the army. Iran is no threat to us and neither is North Korea. They can barely take care of themselves. Does anyone seriously think China will tolerate a US presence there again. They want a unified Korea with the DMZ troops gone forever.

Our real enemies are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Israel aside, our only "friends" in the Arab world are despotic dictatorships - the furthest thing from from models for Bush's so-called "democratization" of the region. By doing business only with these nations and sabre-rattling at anyone else who dare build their military, we are seen as the enemy of the majority of Arabs. It's not because of religion - that is a false boogeyman that people use to make Arabs sound worse than they are because it's otherwise very difficult to motivate Americans to move against them. The truth is, Arabs look at these animals in charge of Pakistan and KofSA, see who's propping them up and feeding them weapons and cash, and hate and lash out at us out of frustration.

The day we walk from these pigs is the day Islamic terrorists lose their beef with us. Then we can move in culturally by trade and include the whole region in the Americanization of the world, because that's where our real power is. They'll be watching the NFL, driving F-350 duallies and Harleys, and eating Cap'n Crunch for breakfast in no time.

wistah, thats the most whacko lefty thing ever written


you must be falling for the Nancy Stinky Pelosi, John Commie Kerry, and Jack Coward Murtha spin:bricks:

Korea looks like it will wrap up in the near future, many of the northern camps have been scheduled to be closed with the troops moving to southern areas. We had our hands tied there for a long time because the armistice dictated the troop level that we had to keep on the penisula. If and when they ROK can have a stable government they will realize there own military is more than capable and we should be able to keep a minimal amount of troops in the country as a forward operating/support area, much like Japan is now.

I've been to the DMZ on the 38th parallel on more than one occasion and it is a strangely beautiful place. Hopefully it will only be a monument in the near future.

I agree we have to honor existing agreements.
Good post.

Well im sure Al Jazeera will be telling terrorists all over the middle east this piece of important info. I am sure it will spur them on even more.

That's right, by saying anything at all that could be construed as negative toward America, we are helping the enemy, which makes us treasonous terrorist sympathizers. Or baby killers. Or something.

they would like to call us commies, but then are reminded that their revered leader has taken away all power from Congress with authoritarian signing statements, gulags, torture, and illegal wiretapping, just like in ol USSR. doh...who's the commie now *****es?