re: #150 Killgore Trout

No just speculating. If indeed Obama’s statement is true then Woodward’s point still stands: Necessary military deployments are being cancelled because we can’t afford it. That’s not good.

I don’t see the Japanese with a strike group there. What about the UK? What about France? Better yet, what about Saudi Arabia? We have the 5th Fleet currently deployed in the Indian Ocean. Are we to expect the USA is going to be pulling the weight in the Persian Gulf while other nations just sit around and pick lint out of their belly buttons?