Obama: the US can no longer fight the world's battles

[Unkotare]

Seems to me that we're planning on selling some of our older carriers. Possibly to Saudi Arabia and/or Israel or India or Australia or Japan or Brazil. But most definitely to an ally in the Middle East as well as the Asia Pacific region.

Link?

 

[GoneBezerk]

Actually dumbass the DoD budget now is a smaller % of GDP compared to when JKF was POTUS.....

Wise move. Defense spending consumes too much of budget.

 

[mudwhistle]

So Obama purposely spends and spends so he can use that as an excuse to cut the military and end the United State's status as a world power.

I've been telling everyone this for years.

 

[mudwhistle]

We have a stronger military than the next ten countries combined and eight of those ten are our allies

Time to allow other countries to play policeman

Fucken dumb-ass.

Nobody else can afford to.

This will only result in war after war.

Aggressive nations will pray on the weak.

And we will be one of the weak.

 

[GoneBezerk]

Yes, he is like a drunk that spent his family's money on binge drinking and is pawning their stuff for his habit...then tells the kids they cannot have school supplies and food because there is no money left.

So Obama purposely spends and spends so he can use that as an excuse to cut the military and end the United State's status as a world power.

I've been telling everyone this for years.

 

[Steelplate]

We can't fight the world's battles. We need to downsize somewhat and be ready when a real Crisis happens.... like the first Gulf War, for example. Iraq invaded a sovereign country and we responded.

Libya... NATO drafted a Resolution and we did our part... nothing more.

We can't afford a "war on terror". We can however, work on preventing terrorism on our soil.

 

[Unkotare]

We can't fight the world's battles. We need to downsize somewhat and be ready when a real Crisis happens.... like the first Gulf War, for example. Iraq invaded a sovereign country and we responded.

Libya... NATO drafted a Resolution and we did our part... nothing more.

We can't afford a "war on terror". We can however, work on preventing terrorism on our soil.

Do you even read what the **** you write?

 

[GoneBezerk]

Uh idiot, the Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was closure on the first Gulf War....we never left.

I guess you didn't want us going into Afghanistan.....yeah right.

Libya is a joke and probably a bigger mess down the road thanks to what we did there by not taking out Qaddafi earlier and allowing more terrorists to flow into Libya.

Oh, if you downsize the military too much, it will have a hard time takinbg care of that so-called crisis..

What crisis does your peon mind see on the horizon??? Please tell steelplateinhead.

We can't fight the world's battles. We need to downsize somewhat and be ready when a real Crisis happens.... like the first Gulf War, for example. Iraq invaded a sovereign country and we responded.

Libya... NATO drafted a Resolution and we did our part... nothing more.

We can't afford a "war on terror". We can however, work on preventing terrorism on our soil.

 

[GoneBezerk]

No, he confused himself while the voices in his head argue.

We can't fight the world's battles. We need to downsize somewhat and be ready when a real Crisis happens.... like the first Gulf War, for example. Iraq invaded a sovereign country and we responded.

Libya... NATO drafted a Resolution and we did our part... nothing more.

We can't afford a "war on terror". We can however, work on preventing terrorism on our soil.

Do you even read what the **** you write?

 

[rightwinger]

We have a stronger military than the next ten countries combined and eight of those ten are our allies

Time to allow other countries to play policeman

We're not "playing policeman" for others you fool, we are securing our own interests. Are you ******* clowns even capable of thinking beyond liberal bumper stickers?

Like in operation Iraqi freedom?

 

[Steelplate]

Go **** yourselves. There is rational and there is irrational. Apparently you feel that damn near a trillion dollars a year is a "Rational Military budget"....

 

[Unkotare]

We have a stronger military than the next ten countries combined and eight of those ten are our allies

Time to allow other countries to play policeman

We're not "playing policeman" for others you fool, we are securing our own interests. Are you ******* clowns even capable of thinking beyond liberal bumper stickers?

Like in operation Iraqi freedom?

Yes, for example.

 

[GoneBezerk]

You're just a dumbfuck.

I bet you complain about your city spending money on police until you realize there are bad people out there.

"Yeah, we need to downsize the military....but I want them to protect me too."

Go **** yourselves. There is rational and there is irrational. Apparently you feel that damn near a trillion dollars a year is a "Rational Military budget"....

 

[mudwhistle]

We have a stronger military than the next ten countries combined and eight of those ten are our allies

Time to allow other countries to play policeman

We're not "playing policeman" for others you fool, we are securing our own interests. Are you ******* clowns even capable of thinking beyond liberal bumper stickers?

Like in operation Iraqi freedom?

Iraq is over with.

The only wars we're in now are the ones Obama supported or started.

 

[uscitizen]

I don't think the budget is the problem, it's where he wants to cut.

For instance, he wants to cut the size of the Army and Marines, but still wants to maintain 11 Carrier Battle Groups. We have three new Carriers under construction that will replace 3 older but probably still serviceable ones.

Do we need 11 Carrier Battle Groups? Well, let's see how other countries stack up in their number of carriers.

Italy has 2, but they are an ally
the UK Has 1, but they are an ally.
Spain has 2, but they are a joke. Also an ally.
France has 1. But it keeps surrendering.

India has 1. But we are on good terms with India.

Russia has one. China has one under contruction. Neither are anywhere near ours in terms of range, capability, etc.

So we don't need them, but we are keeping them.

Meanwhile, we are cutting the number of active divisions- again. To the point where we can't fight two land wars at once. It's an invitation to someone to say, "Well, America's Busy in Goofistan, we can launch an invasion of our neighbor."

Part of it is the thinking that the Air FOrce and Navy have to get as much as the Army gets, when the Army is the key force.

We took over from the USSR as being the military bully of the world.

 

[imbalance]

Seems to me that we're planning on selling some of our older carriers. Possibly to Saudi Arabia and/or Israel or India or Australia or Japan or Brazil. But most definitely to an ally in the Middle East as well as the Asia Pacific region.

Link?

No link, just pure speculation and conjecture.

 

[Middleoftheroad]

We have a stronger military than the next ten countries combined and eight of those ten are our allies

Time to allow other countries to play policeman

Fucken dumb-ass.

Nobody else can afford to.

This will only result in war after war.

Aggressive nations will pray on the weak.

And we will be one of the weak.

Your conclusion is totally wrong.
Our Navy has 8X the tonnage in the sea as any other country, and as much as the next 10 combined, 8 of which are our allies. It is also the most advanced. If you cut it in half, we would still be the most advanced and still have 4X the tonnage in the sea.
You say weak? So by weak you mean by far the strongest. So strong that no one could hope to beat us. Not just no one, but no four.
So I guess your definition of weak is, by far the strongest, in a way, this it still isn't even close.

 

[WillowTree]

Bring the troops home, put them on the Southern Border and start drilling our own ******* oil. Leave the arabs to their own devices.. bring us that damn pipeline too.

 

[WillowTree]

You're just a dumbfuck.

I bet you complain about your city spending money on police until you realize there are bad people out there.

"Yeah, we need to downsize the military....but I want them to protect me too."

Go **** yourselves. There is rational and there is irrational. Apparently you feel that damn near a trillion dollars a year is a "Rational Military budget"....

libtards don't like police either. just so ya know.

 

[Middleoftheroad]

Bring the troops home, put them on the Southern Border and start drilling our own ******* oil. Leave the arabs to their own devices.. bring us that damn pipeline too.

I think this is the first time I have ever agreed with you.