sdbest

I'm shocked and awed by the U.S. military's technology and fire power. It can fly three times faster than the speed of sound and blow up the world 40 times over. Impressive. But it doesn't seem to be able to, in fact, win a war. Unless of course you call Panama or Grenada wars.

The U.S. military couldn't beat North Korea, North Vietnam, and now Iraq, impoverished Iraq! It was the Soviet Union that won WWII. And, the U.S. had barely arrived in WWI when it ended.

It seems to me, and I'm prepared to be convinced otherwise, that despite its massive budget--that is debilitating the social fabric of America--the U.S. military just can't seem to deliver the goods for the American people when necessary.

I know the U.S. military is believed to be the best in the world--at least that's what I'm told over and over and over and over--but if it can't even win an insurgent war in Iraq, and the WWII style wars are a thing of the past so what exactly is the present U.S. military good for? Apart from enriching arms manufacturers and creating dangerous menial jobs for a million or so Americans?

Isn't it about time that the US public started to raise some serious questions about what their tax dollars are, in fact, buying? Sure doesn't look like much from where I stand.