Somewhat OT: ultimate IFV

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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull

Yeah, well someone has to put Americans to work. It been one of those things that has amazed me during the last 8 years how many factories that we allowed to closed. Instead of keeping people in work to build up the military. We have in many cases reduced the military even though they can barely keep up with the current missions they are tasked with, let alone other conflicts that we could be dragged into. We sit here and wonder why nations such as Iran, North Korea and to extent Russia have out right ignore us.

JMHO.

They ignore us due to a combination of our lack of being able to project an real military power outside of Iraq and Afghanistan, our ineffective educational system, our neglect of the sciences and the space program, and the fact that most of the rest of the world owns us through our national debt. We're no threat anymore.