[Radar]

Fireman: To be brutally honest, I genuinely don't care if those people become unemployed because if they have skills, they will get jobs in the private sector and as you pointed out, those jobs will pay better than what they were getting in the military so they are better off. The role of government isn't to make sure people are employed just for the sake of being employed and charge those who have legitimate jobs to pay for it.

We should not keep a bloated, huge, military, and we should never ever use our military as a show of force to bully everyone else on earth. Whether you like it or not, America has a DEFENSIVE military which means we attack only when attacked. Our military is not here to perform humanitarian aid missions, to train other militaries, to overthrow the leaders of sovereign nations the president happens to dislike, etc.

The founding fathers knew that it was wrong to keep a large military during times of peace and we should heed their warnings.

We would have far fewer enemies to worry about if we weren't pissing everyone else off by sticking our noses where it doesn't belong.

And I've got news for you, countries may attack America, but they will never "suprise" attack us. If an invasion force were to come here such as in "Red Dawn" they'd be blown to bits before they dropped the first paratrooper. If our military did their one and only one job of DEFENDING America rather than being an OFFENSIVE deployment force for the UN, we'd be much safer.

GWB has made America and the rest of the world a more dangerous place by violating the Constitution to START a war of imperialistic aggression against a non-threatening sovereign nation.

Our military shouldn't be any larger than it takes just to defend America (and nobody else) from attack. Not one soldier in Iraq is defending America. Nor are those in Germany, Japan, Italy, or any of the other nations where we have American troops stationed.

America is not the defender of the world, the police of the world, etc. America has no authority to tell any other countries what weapons they may or may not have, nor does the UN for that matter. In fact America has absolutely no authority beyond our own borders.