Comments on: Study: U.S. Unprepared For Homeland Attack

Equipment Shortages Stateside, Insufficient Training Mark "An Appalling Gap" For Military

[bm6005]

The article failed to mention that most of the Guard and Reservists are ex- military.
Posted by bb19631

Proof please. I don''t buy this for one minute. Perhaps some are, no doubt, but most? BS

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. We would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[bb19631]

The government would have to spend millions to update the weapons that the National Guard uses ,this is true. 70% cost efficient to use these troops instead of active duty troops is bogus bulllshit. The article failed to mention that most of the Guard and Reservists are ex- military. When these troops get deployed they get paid the same as active duty troops so where is the cost efficientcy? 90 % of the Guard and Reservists have been deployed over seas more than once to Iraq and Afganistan. They do an awesome job and do their jobs well. So the only parts in this study I agree with is for the government to buy them better equiptment to use.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. We would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[nyckate]

and yet another serious bush failure -- his failures are harming this nation badly.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[frif1981]

The bottom line is that we are not making headway in the war against terror. We went into Afghanistan after Bin Laden, didn''t get him there but stayed there. I don''t even know why we went into Iraq (not after Al Qaeda they weren''t active there before we went in) and we are still there. The war on terror is a different type of war. We will never beat a VERY mobile enemy when we go in like a bull and have to lumber behind and fix our messes. We require more precision like what went on in Pakistan reported today. Ron Paul is the only candidate that seems to understand this. He voted to go after Bin Laden in Afghanistan but not to "build democracy" there. That is not our job. Not to mention that we would have all the trained personnel we need here if we had listened to him in the first place and not gone into Iraq when they did not aggress against us.

[bm6005]

I would really hate to have people who share your kind of weak minded vision of this country to run it..
Posted by libsluvsuvs

Ya know many of the posters here are vets and many of us served in combat. Perhaps that''s why we see things differently. What''s your service record like?