Jesus christ, you really aren't that dumb are you? Come on man, stop playing around, sometimes you kid too much. No one can be that stupid, right?
Rumsfeld is an idiot, are you telling me right now the Crusader wouldn't be a key tool as far as hitting key targets without having to wait for air cover to hit a target? The Crusader has its purpose and taking a useful tool out of the box is just not the way to run your shop, metaphorically.
It is obvious to me you have never served military time. If you had served and been involved in the process you would not even have tried to make this argument and be getting owned in rebuttal.
You make the argument that the GENERALS shouldn't decide what they need? What the hell? Civilians can fucking oversee shit sure but as far as anyone knowing what they need at the point of impact THERE SHOULD NEVER BE A CIVILIAN IN THAT ROLE. See, I really don't think you thought about what the fuck you just said, or if you did you are running on about a 32 IQ becaus 'jack' that was plain fucking stupid. Here is how the heirarchy should work:
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Congressional Committee <------------Non Committal Entity
|------------Head of Military (NON CIVILIAN)---------------|
.......... Airforce Head | Navy Head | Army Head...........
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Now, how in the fuck would that constitute one commander or branch soaking up all the resources? Simple, IT WOULDN'T because if the overall head padded his agenda THE WHOLE FUCKING MILITARY WOULD GET PADDED.
Having lots of money for equipment, training the proper personel for usage, and making sure the system runs efficiently = superior military. With a civilian head to the military structure things aren't efficient because that person has no fucking idea of the reasoning behind the requests. All the civilian side needs to know is why money was spent for this purpose, not have the pen that writes the checks. Your argument on this point was pure bullshit and my argument lends absolutely no validity to your own.
Does that refute the god damn argument well enough or do you need me to draw you a picture?
Class dismissed!
