Rich Mazur
2 Nov 2019 #1591
Lots of CIA and special forces guys will get career advancements - .. And money, money, money...
Again, spot on. The first job for every department and agency like the CIA is to justify its existence. The second - to grow, which means promotions and bigger salaries. We don't need to be in Afghanistan to be safe in Kansas.
If drug smugglers quit smuggling, the feds would criminalize something else. That is how BATF was created after booze became legal again. They had a bunch of parasites chasing moonshiners facing unemployment. That was not going to be allowed to happen so they created another agency where to park the now useless booze sniffers.
Why we must challenge USA on a grand scale?
Another adult moment from Russia. We need 700 billion dollar military budget only to be a multitasking dumb world cop. To keep Russia from attacking the US - which would be as likely as me becoming immortal - we would 70, if that much.
Russia and China seem secure enough spending a fraction (one tenth and one third, respectively) because they are not playing cops and robbers all over the globe.
who will pay heavy bills for a passed "silver age" of US.
The saddest part is that, as I posted earlier, the US decline is self-inflicted. America has cancer that is eating it from within. When 40% of the population has less than 1000 bucks in savings, something very rotten is happening here.