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From the Centers for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (http://armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/US_vs_Global/ - broken link). . .
In a recent speech to the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space Exposition, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pointed to just a few of the many extreme cases in which U.S. defense outweighs that of other countries:
The U.S. operates 11 large carriers, all nuclear powered. In terms of size and striking power, no other country has even one comparable ship.
The U.S. Navy has 10 large-deck amphibious ships that can operate as sea bases for helicopters and vertical-takeoff jets. No other navy has more than three, and all of those navies belong to pure allies or friends. Our Navy can carry twice as many aircraft at sea as all the rest of the world combined.
The U.S. has 57 nuclear-powered attack and cruise missile submarines – again, more than the rest of the world combined.
Seventy-nine Aegis-equipped combatants carry roughly 8,000 vertical-launch missile cells. In terms of total missile firepower, the U.S. arguably outmatches the next 20 largest navies.
All told, the displacement of the U.S. battle fleet – a proxy for overall fleet capabilities – exceeds, by one recent estimate, at least the next 13 navies combined, of which 11 are our allies or partners.
Those numbers focus only on the Navy, but extreme examples like these span every branch of the Department of Defense.
Listening to the three war mongers, a war with Iran is more important than the tanking economy and destruction of our civil liberties.
Ignorance defined.
So on the topic of war since these guys seem so adament about going to war with Iran, the followup question should be how will it be paid for? Will they readily sign off on going to war with Iran if it's going to cost X billion dollars and we have no way to pay for it? Great fiscal conservatives.
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COURAGE....the cowardly dog. He should have said "Tigerblood"
