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Oh they were ballsy in Fallujah alright. And many don't hesitate to face death in close quarters combat. They can't fight worth a spit on the battlefield though and that's why we ran through them like a dose of salts in the Iraq War. Personally, standing off and blasting the area they're in to dust is how I think it should be done.

One of the greatest travesties of all time is the way GI's are treated once they get home. No telling what body parts have blown off, and government help is sadly lacking. Meanwhile, bureaucrats would see this nation in ruins before they would deny the do-less their food, housing, free utilities, free phones, and free health care.

BTW, for the sake of conversation. Last year's version of the sequester only involved 85 billion dollars. This year's version is over 100 billion. And we're going to light up the skyline for Assad, being ever so careful so as not to actually hit anything, for a cost of something north of 200 million for starters? You know, if it's time to go to war then we should definitely let it roar. But, we don't even know what the heck we're doing this for outside of a "shot across the bow."

We definitely agree on all you said TRT. That is something I have thought a lot about as well, the cost. But, I don't look at it as bad as I think I would if I had never been in the machine myself. Since I've seen so much waste firsthand, ad have read about the costs it takes to send our ships all over the world, especially this area of the world where we always bring forces ready to fight which gives us the capability to defend US interests literally anywhere on earth, I am a bit softer when it comes to the cost of our ordnance, which is insanely expensive but also insanely effective.

Man it's a messed up situation. I truly hope that this latest proposal works. It would achieve the purpose of getting rid of a stockpile of CW we have worried about for years, and it keeps us from having to spend the extra cash to replace that ordnance, launch it, the innocent civilian lives we could disrupt or end, ect.


But my confidence isn't high. I will always have more confidence in our government over ANYONE in Russia, but honestly it's not by much.