re: #220 Eventual Carrion

Maybe China and they get more for their money than we do?

Besides that, do you remember how fast the 1990 drawdown was? I do because it was the first time my defense-contractor father rode a company from upper management to the garbage pit.

There is no ‘peace dividend’. We still need to be able to have troops and tanks for three midsize wars at once, and one of those is spoken for on the 38th Parallel and had better remain so if our current electronics source in China goes belligerent or even just trade-with-enemy. And while I HATE to boost the Repugs, that means even small cuts could leave us unable to crush an enemy that needs crushing.

Russia is a big enough enemy to world prosperity, let alone peace, now that it needs to be laid nearly as low as Germany and Japan were intended to be. We can’t treat with them properly as long as they’re this authoritarian and expansionist.