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We Need to Strengthen Our Military. Thoughts?

We need a new military to meet the new threats of the 21st Century. Today's American military is the best in the world, but tomorrow's military must be even better. It must be stronger, faster, better armed.

Expand America's active duty forces.

Add 40,000 new soldiers to sustain our overseas deployments and prevent and prepare for other possible conflicts.

We need to create a "New Total Force," a military prepared to defeat any enemy, at any time, in any place.

We also need more military police, because public order is critical to establishing the conditions that allow peace to take hold.

We need the best possible equipment. We can't have a 21st century military unless we're using 21st century technology and preparing our forces for 21st century threats. That means educating, training, and arming every soldier with state-of-the-art equipment, whether body armor or weapons. It also means employing the most sophisticated communications to help our troops prevail and protect themselves in battle. Every soldier in every unit should have access to technology that can mean the difference between life and death.

Build and train new forces equipped with the most-sophisticated technology to specialize in finding, securing, and destroying weapons of mass destruction and the facilities that build them.

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Thoughts?

EDIT: See my post below on who really wrote what I posted above.
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lorne13 · 61-69, M
how are trump's buddies in the weapons industry gonna make huge profits if nobody is killing anybody?
AnneHoney · 41-45, F
Haha, love these clueless responses. @lorne13
lorne13 · 61-69, M
@AnneHoney all you have to do is check, you'll see that the last time the missiles were fired in Syria, the weapons companies stock value gained well over 4 billion dollars
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@lorne13 the cost of each tomahawk was estimated at between $500k and a million. That means over $100 million just in the cost of the ordinance. By all reports, the delay and telegraphing intent led to.the Syrian government's moving personnel and equipment out of harms way. Isn't it amazing that, if these were such vital institutional facilities, that there was not a report of a single loss of life? So what did we gain from that expense and risk?
AnneHoney · 41-45, F
@lorne13 just think how much FDRs buddies made because we entered WW2. What a waste. Learning to speak German would have been good for the British.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@AnneHoney that is one of the most reprehensible things I have ever read on SW or anywhere else! Do you think the US should have stayed out of WWII? We sure tried. Millions were killed by the axis powers. Civilians and combatants.