Agree on both counts.

1. I don’t believe we should cut troop pay/benefits. But I also don’t think the US taxpayer should pay millions of dollars for a big green plastic thingamajig that will never be used and isn’t wanted by the DOD or Pentagon. A lot of defense contracts are not needed for national security, they are just a government jobs program.

2. Bring the troops home and put them on the southern border.

look at Medicare and Medicaid, and, the wide variety of duplicate departments that are all assigned to do the same thing. You really sound like a Ron Paul supporter in saying that the US doesn’t need to be involved in nation building. I agree that if we are going to War, we should go at it in a manner as to win it as quickly as possible. Is it not Obama that has adopted the nation building position, in Afghanistan, for example. He sent in more troops, to sit like ducks, and, to be killed in order to save the human shields that the Taliban has posed? He sent our troops in to accomplish not much of anything, and, they have only so many days to accomplish that nothing. Obama, like all Democrat Presidents, cut our defense budget first, before anything else. Bush was accused of going into Iraq, with the military we had at the time. He was functioning with a severly cut military, and equipment budget that was imposed by Clinton. He was going after Bin Laden that was bypassed, when they could have had him, by a Clinton idiot president. Democrat Presidents want nothing more than to play kissy face with our enemies, and then, spend like a teenager with a new credit card on “I have to have this.”

It’s also interesting that you side against the myriad of foreign policy experts, that promote strength through our strong military, rather than, let’s cut the Defense Budget, and, then we will have more money to promote the progressive social policies, and, a very weak military, foreign policy in the US. I tend to agree with “Talk softly, but, carry a big stick.” A very strong US military has more often than not been a strong deterant against those that hate us. Those that hate us have only grown since the immaculation of the Won. The world knows that the Won is more concerned with apologizing to the World for how bad this country has been, and the mea culpas come constantly from his warped lips. The fraud and waste from the DOD is the last of the problems we have to be concerned with.

So, you really want to repeal “posse comitatus” and turn the 2, 5, 25 mile border strip into a martial law area? In the name of “limited federal government”? Let’s not!

Yes, there is waste in the DoD, as in all Fed departments. But, in the one most important Federal area, let’s use a scalpel, not an ax. And let’s decide if we want to fight Islamists overseas, or handle them as a crime problem here at home. What would you do when our embassies are blown up? Send over the FBI to ask politely if they may interview suspects? That worked so well.

For far too long, Congress has abrogated its constitutional responsibility to serve as good stewards for the American taxpayer.

The American electorate is to blame for this travesty.

Amen! Europe/Japan should be providing for their own defense instead of US taxpayers. We don’t need to be proping up/subsidizing socialists with our own blood sweat and tears.