| "are you so sure of our military that we'll survive the consequences of our actions? Will we kill more of them than us? Who survive to write the next batch of history books?" We need to rebuild the military. We need to add 1 million men. That will cost approximately 120 billion dollars per year. We can still deal with Iran, although we face risks to our ships at sea unlike Iraq, which is one reason we need a ground invasion. A ground invasion component might cost 200 to 2000 killed. But the loss of a few large ships could be much higher than this. Thus the ground phase, by securing their missiles, sub bases, etc. actually reduces the risk of large losses to us. It also contains ongoing risk. As to Pakistan, the time is now to get them to denuke, not down the road. North Korea is something we have to make a decision on now to strike. That would delay an Iran invasion. If we built up our military by 1 million more, we would find it easier to negotiate arms control. We should try to split Russia off from China. Pay Russia to invade North Korea. Japan could pay them. North Korea's leader may have already decided to use nuclear weapons once he can take down Japan, South Korea, China, Russia and some US sites. He wants to be famous in history as someone who defeated all the great nuclear powers and Japan and SoKo all at once. Others think like him as well, e.g. Iran. As V pointed out, we see distrust build before our eyes. This could be the Year of Distrust. |