And as Sh1fty points out down-thread, wew’ve been living off our momentum from the Cold War. We’re like the powerless final stage of an ICBM headed down-range with a new target re-programmed but no propellant to boost us further down range to reach it. We are on the backside/downside of the parabola in an irreversible free-fall.
All our enemies have to do is wait us out, as we will eventually grind to a halt as we wear out every system we have. We need more of EVERYTHING. I once told someone that it was an absolute miracle that we were able to fund, improve and maintain the force for as long as we did post-Vietnam. This was largely due not only to Regan, but paradoxically enough, a still “blue-dog” democratically controlled South that was full of pro-military conservative types whose Congressional delegations served as a break on left-wing anti-military/war sentiment when the Democrats controlled Congress. Now that this state of affairs no longer holds, there is ABSOLUTELY NO BREAK on the left-wing pacifist crazies in Congress–especially with Obama in the Presidency. And even with Regan the anti-war, anti-military tide was still running so strong that the Wall came down only moments (figuratively speaking) before the majority in the US (led by Ted Kennedy, btw) and the West were preparing to cede victory to the Soviets by an unwillingness to fund further force modernization.

It was the US, not the thousands of WP/SU missiles pointed at the UK that the British housewives were protesting against when they chained themselves to the chain-link perimeter fence at Greenham-Commons when Regan installed cruise missiles there. AMERICA was considered the aggressor and an Imperialist threat to world peace by a huge segment of public opinion in the West–thanks to 40 yrs of KGB inspired propaganda echoed by all-too gullible useful idiots in the West. Had the SU only hung on for a few more years it would have all fallen into their hands. Obama is but the inevitable result of those deep extreme left cultural and political tidal forces that were strongly at play even then. Given the nature of the sociocultural trends that are at play, I’m amazed that we have lasted as long as we have. The Soviet Union collapsed ten minutes before we were ready to surrender to it–Islam and the PRC won’t be so accommodating.

Actually no, it was Port Stanley they attacked, the airfield in the Falklands, with a Vulcan: (scroll down to ‘Black Buck Raids’)

AVRO VULCAN HISTORY

What also is bad is if you check out War News Updates. Apparently the Asian and European newspapers are reporting this story but not the American ones, save Drudgereport, which I remember visiting for “fun” about a decade ago and has now almost sadly become one of the only medias I actually trust.

Another whopper: Madeline Albright told an audience in Russia that the US no longer seeks to be the premier nation in the world. These are the type of people we now have RUNNING THE COUNTRY!!!

And now ladies and gentlemen, after unilaterally disarming the world of nukes and restraining the evil Israelis from the peace-loving Iranians Obama’s next trick will be to revive the ancient and extinct race of vegan unicorns that once brought untold prosperity to the land through extravagant taxes . . . that is right after he gets to lowering the oceans and providing better and more health care to all of us for less.

Where’s the sterno, I don’t think normal alcohol will solve my problems tonight