"Here We Come to Save the Day!" The awesome power of the world's mightiest military is on the way, the most expensive military in the history of the world! The self-appointed global police force, brought to you courtesy of US taxpayers, charged on the USG's credit card with unlimited balances for war, grand, glorious war.
Ashley Wilkes.......
"Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And when the wars were over no one ever knew what they were about."
Gerald O'Hara......
"Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts."
Scarlett O'Hara...........
"Fiddle dee dee. War, war, war. This war talk is spoiling the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream."
Scarlett O'Hara.......
"As God as my witness. As God as my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over I'll never be hungry again nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill as God as my witness I'll never be hungry again."
So, a brand new war middle-eastern war on the horizon and the US in the lead to save the world from itself once again. "Here We Come to Save the Day!"
IS, ISIS, ISIL are coming after you, look under your bed, under your car hood, around the corner of your house. Be afraid, very afraid.
The Real Cost Of U.S. In Libya? Two Billion Dollars Per Day.
So how are we going to pay for this new war? What must be cut? What are you willing to give up? What countries get a free ride? What countries will "buy-in"? How much will it cost a country to buy-in?
But surely this newest war of aggression is a righteous war, isn't it? Not another dumb war? What is our end goal? How will we get out? Thus far, 13 years later, we're still in Afghanistan....(when and how will we ever get out of Afghanistan, American's longest and most unpopular war, with 30,000 US troops still there?)
Will we ever have a time again for this country that we will not be at war? Bombing and or arming other countries?
Will we ever again have a candidate run for office on a Peace and Prosperity platform?
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Can America continue to sustain the kind of global military posture that enables it to simultaneously execute a no-fly zone in Libya, a counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan, disaster relief in Japan, and a host of other operations from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf to the Horn of Africa? While its European allies seem hard-pressed to cope with a modest military challenge on their own doorstep, America has embraced a global role that requires its forces to be pretty much everywhere there is a threat of instability. So what looks like an inexpensive military operation in Libya is actually costing taxpayers about $2 billion per day, because that’s what the Pentagon and other security agencies of the federal government spend to maintain a posture that allows the military to go anywhere and do anything on short notice.
There is good reason to believe that posture is no longer affordable — or more precisely, that the public is no longer willing to afford it. When the new millennium began barely ten years ago, the United States was generating roughly a third of global economic output and also sustaining about a third of worldwide military spending. Since that time, though, the two measures of power have diverged dramatically, and so today America only produces about a quarter of output while trying to sustain nearly half of military spending (over $700 billion in a global total of $1.6 trillion).
In other words, five percent of the world’s population is trying to cover fifty percent of the world’s military bills with only a quarter of the world’s wealth.
Even without these newest military forays, the Pentagon says it needs more money, that they cannot get by with funding that is almost 25% of our annual budget - of course also, too - the Pentagon cannot even begin to pass an audit, to account for all the billions it spends, nor amazingly enough, does congress even require that it does.
As that Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff says, "What a country!"