Originally Posted by Guest

A substantive question, perhaps?

What do you want? Is there a question there, other than "what's wrong with me?" that you seem to be asking? I doubt anyone can answer that part. If you are suggesting that war and law enforcement are too expensive so we should just ignore terrorism, then you do have a problem. America is weak, due to liberal pacifists. As ugly as war is, the best way to win is to allow the military to do their own thing. They know how to win wars. It is what they train for. It is why young men enlist, to win. Not to be nation building. When you have someone that wars against you, then you retaliate by crushing them with your power. You will have far less war if you show your might than if you try to talk to them. Muslims, in particular do not respect weakness and will take advantage of it. No one likes war, but we hate seeing our people die when that could have been avoided by crushing the opposition. The problem with our liberals is that they do not live in reality. They live like everyone wants to live in a dream world. The fact is that if they would get out of the way, our country would be safe again. Our military does not enjoy killing people, but they are good at it. We will have less or OURS dying if we allow them to do the job they trained to do. ALL of our military members volunteered/joined to fight for their country. That is what they prepare to do every day of their enlistment. War is hard and someone has to die. Let those that die be on the other side. Yes, civilians are collateral damage. You can't fight a war without civilian casualties. That's life, that's war. Accept it and quit making our military feel guilty for collateral damage.

If you want more bang for your tax money, then tell the gov to quit tying our military hands behind our backs and let them do what they were trained to do.