50 Billion dollars.....

That's what we can save over the next 20 years by closing a bunch of military bases here in the U.S. but as Peggy Noonan says here what if we need them some day? I remember when the wall came down, and the peace lobby was saying we don't really need a military anymore, at least not one as big as we had at the time. Well we could use more troops to stabilize Iraq, and i wouldn't mind putting some boots on the ground in Iran either, but our military isn't big enough. We didn't foresee any of this trouble. On a side note, all of the branches of the service have far exceeded their reenlistment goals for the year. In other words, despite what we hear every day from the mainstream media, the soldiers in Iraq, and Afghanistan must think they're doing something noble, and worthwhile. I for one appreciate all of them.