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If those are your criteria, you know how many wars you're going to have to fight? The countries on Earth that wouldn't mind taking us down a peg or three are quite numerous. You going to go to war against all of them? At what point? The nuclear genie is out of the bottle. If North Korea...

Why? Here's one reason. There are lots of people in the country who think nothing of finding a young man with his whole life ahead of him, grabbing him by the collar, telling him, "Let's you and that guy over there fight." Then they ship him off to Outer Elbonia for him to die over NOTHING...

Ok, Bob, let's have a little exercise here. Let's say you convince America that we need to go kick some North Korean @$$ over this. The Chinese get involved, or heck, maybe they don't, but regardless, American soldiers and marines start coming home in body bags, or maimed. So you are...

Again, looking at it backwards. This phrase: says it all. As I pointed out, young Americans don't (at least to this point) care enough about the world's geopolitical situation to join in greater numbers. Unless/until they do, we could triple our armory and it would make no difference...

Completely different. In WWII, we were attacked by the Japanese. In Europe, Hitler had made his expansionist ideas known, and it was clear that we would have been on his list in a few years. Not to mention, the human rights atrocities that were going on. North Korea can never be said to...

It's not so much that as the fact that we have an all-volunteer force. Volunteers are inspired by several factors, one of them being the worthiness of the causes in play at the time. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, and the Japanese and Nazis were terrorizing the globe, lines formed at the...

You're looking at it backwards. When you send American boys to fight, die, get maimed, PTSD, etc, it had better be for the defense of this country. If you want to free some other country, take volunteers for THAT CONFLICT ONLY. "Ok, everybody, who wants to fund the fight for the freedom of...

Not only that, but the USMC is a little busy right now.

How much American blood, in gallons, is South Korea worth? Say it in simple words.

But dude, that wasn't even close. Makes it hard to read. P.S. "Perfect" is an absolute. It's incorrect to modify an absolute to indicate a degree, as in "not as perfect."

I got ill while in TN once, while enroute to the Carolinas. My codriver took over there. When we got to the Carolinas, I was participating in the olympic cookie toss competition. Asked the boss for a day of sitting to get better, but it wasn't on his list of things to do, apparently. We...

How many sentences is that? Punctuation isn't one of those things that can be said to be over-rated. That's very hard to read.

Unfortunately, similar stories could be told by us men using truck stop toilets.

...as was the last guy, and the guy before him...

Your buddies on the other side of the aisle are no better, LOS. One side wipes their backsides with some of the Bill of Rights, then the other side gets in and wipes with the others.

One more reason not to run for the big guys...

You know, if others wouldn't post things like this, only a half-dozen people would have heard of it, being that it was on PMSNBC.

A microwave opens up all sorts of power and storage issues. Don't have a generator. Plan on getting one before next summer, but not until then. Despite having what seems like all this room, it pretty much goes out the window when 2-3 skids are loaded. If I were even a half-assed carpenter...

Somebody sure is doing the cheap freight. One of my companies is known to low-ball, and even we got undercut several times yesterday.

Had a lunchpail heater in the past, before a codriver broke it and wouldn't even admit it. Got a little tired of the limited repertoire, though. I mean, there's beef stew, and ravioli, corned beef hash...and beef stew, and ravioli, and corned beef hash... If I was adventurous, I'd swap the...