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Monday, August 30, 2004
How Large Should The Army Be?
The Bush Administration says it’s right-sized, but John Kerry disagrees.
It’s painful to find myself wandering near to agreement with Kerry about anything, but I, too, have wondered if the Army could use a couple more divisions, especially Special Forces divisions. War with Iran is inevitable, and with North Korea nearly so. We’re going to be spread pretty thin quite soon.
However, the bulging brains of force planning apparently disagree, and they’re the experts.
I can’t help but note that Kerry wants to pay for those two extra divisions by gutting the missile defense program. Moreover, he would never, ever employ any segment of our armed power without a permission slip from France, countersigned by Germany and Russia. So why does he want them? Especially since they’ll be two-thirds Republican voters on government salaries?
Comments
Hmmmm it wouldn’t be the first time he (or many other polls in the heat of candidacy) made a promise or put forth an idea they had no intention of following through on. And even if he did, what prevents him from doing the “Kerry Shuffle ™ “ and flip-flopping yet again?
Is an increase in all or a large part of out armed forces needed? I think so. If we are to take on the tasks the President wants to deal with effectivly, along with what fate would toss out there just to keep us busy.
More SF folks? Yes, be all means....but that should be just the beginning.Posted by Guy S. on 08/31/2004 at 12:18 AM...the will of a single black-robed individual is superior to all the natural laws, all the legislated laws, and all the painfully evolved traditions and arrangements of American society...
Are you redefining “authoritarian?” No. But this is what the Left, masking their intentions with facades which appeal to liberals, are working towards.
The Left will preemptively charge that it is the Right that is doing it, and too many will fall for it. This is why those who would like to be thought of as liberals frequently need to be hit over the head with a 2x4.
Sadly the Right leadership cavorts with the Left leadership while the conservative base (much of America is conservative in their everyday lives), which brought them to the dance, stares at the spectacle in ever less tolerant frustration.
Those spoiled and cowardly judges would have long ago ceased their excesses if the Right leadership simply threatened to remove one of them for violations of their oath.
No. I won’t link to my RepublicRats™ cartoon again. Why bother? Sadly it’s message has become as commonplace as sunrise and sunset. NOT ONE OF THE TWO PARTIES GIVES A DAMN ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION.
* Political class wants more power.
* Constitution limits the growth of their power.
* Amendment process is too slow and too uncertain.
* Through neglect of oversight, they have encouraged autocratic judges to end-run the limits of government.
* This while a complicit press paints every issue as a crisis that cannot wait for the Constitutional process.
* Centralized power expands at the expense of individual rights.
At the very core of the American ideal is that government, to be responsive to the governed, must work within specified limits.
The leadership of the current political parties act like a ruling class. For your consideration, how about using Dubya as kinda a stand in for the common man.
Dubya treats many of them like they are better persons than they are, as if were he to say they’re good they’d become so.
He’s done this with the Clintons, and Kennedy, and Daschle, and McCain, and now with Kerry. And they return the respect how? By spitting on him with contempt.
The Left’s treatment of Dubya is not unlike an effete aristocracy’s dismissal of its lower classes no matter how low the peons scrap and bow.
It’s NFW that they use the court mechanism with impunity. Dubya is the President and they get away with scorning him. With such slime establimentarily voted into elective office, what chance does the common citizen have?
Posted by Pascal on 08/31/2004 at 07:28 AM
