And here come the bigots.

1> Increase the warfighter’s situational awareness.
2> Enhance the accuracy of the warfighter when he has to employ deadly force.
3> Allow the warfighter to engage his enemy at a standoff.

All this leads to LESS LOSS OF LIFE.

A> The warfighter has a better chance of staying alive.
B> The innocent that are too often part of today’s battlefield are less likely to become collateral damage.
C> The enemy is more likely to die … which also enhances A and B.

In other words, while I have no problem cutting politically-motivated waste (no matter the party proposing the spending), you can easily end up trading money for lives … even if your intent appears to be reducing American power-projection capabilities to near-impotence, in the hope they will not be used as a result — because more innocents will die if we are not there to defend them, even eventually on our soil.

And it is not enough to maintain parity with enemy capabilities … staying FAR ahead of them not only assures their defeat, it PREVENTS wars by assuring that “they’ll only die tired” if they try to attack America. At least the rational ones will think twice.

The only reason you want it that way is your own partisan blinders. Foaming at the mouth doesn’t change it.

The GOP is now the party of big government and fiscal irresponsibility, pushing the desperately unpatriotic line of ‘tax cuts no matter what’; no matter war, no matter financial catastrophe, no matter what.

No, it DOES NOT work both ways.

If more of Clinton’s spending policies had been passed by a more favorable Congress there would have been no surplus.

It WAS Reagan’s policies (& even Reagan could not get everything that he wanted) which played a MAJOR role in winning the Cold War. If there had been more Democrats in Congress & they suceeded in stopping many of Reagan’s policies (& substituting them for their own), then the Cold War very well COULD still be going.

Gee, the Dems have won the major wars this past century: WWI & WWII.

Republicans managed the first Persian Gulf War and…?

(No, Grenada does not count as a major war)

And while we’re at it…stick to the topic, hold the bitterness and name calling, and offer something of worth to the whole forum, please.

My thoughts are my own if they are someone else’s maybe you could “cite the source” which of course you failed to do pretty sloppy.

Maybe you read one of my posts to the myriad of defense sites about the same issue, I have been trying to warn about how defense will be gutted by the Dems. The Dems are Marxists who hate the troops and the military.

- Murtha calling them killers
– Dodd says the troops are like Nazis
– Kerry accuses them of attacking women and children in their homes ar night.
– Clinton “I loathe the military”

I think the conservatives on this site who argue with Liberals should understand that it’s a lost cause. Your efforts are noble and humane, but reasoning with the mentally ill is impossible. They are infected with a mental virus that is beyond your attempts to cure it.

Now, answer the question.