National Defense and the Art of Incompetence
Posted on 2007-11-08 at 21:07
On September 11th, 2001, there were only fourteen aircraft in place to defend the entire continental Unites States. The results of that piss poor national defense plan were made clear on the skylines of Northern Virginia and New York City. What was our government's answer? They took what was left of our military and moved them to other countries. We now have even fewer national defenses on the mainland. Twenty thousand American soldiers have been seriously wounded or killed in the Iraq war.
So tell me, how does reducing the military presence inside our own borders and taking 9% of our troops out of active combat-readiness through wounding or death make me safer?