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A Bigger Army?
Glenn Reynolds on whether America needs a bigger army, part 2 (and, of course, thanks for the link to Shaun’s post of today, Glenn).
4 Responses to “A Bigger Army?”
“Our Army size was entirely adequate for crushing Saddam’s forces in short order. It’s probably adequate to doing the same to Iran’s forces. It’s not up to fully policing a big country once we’ve done that. Do we want a military that is?”
Hmm, somehow this opinion looks familiar to me. Is Reynolds reading TMV comments???
He did link to Shaun’s article…
I’m glad to see that even Kevin Drum thinks Reynolds has a point with this statement:
“We like to treat this [i.e., the broad war on terror] as a military problem because (1) we’re good at those; and (2) that seems to produce simple questions, like “more troops, or not?” Trouble is, those probably aren’t the right questions.”
Yeah, really, if your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Damn, agreeing with the Instapuntz makes me feeling dizzy. I hope this a simply a sole exception from the general rule that Reynolds is always wrong…
A Bigger Pecker?
We already spend WAY WAY to much on defense. To big is just wasted.