TRILLIONS FOR EXPANSION AND INTERVENTION, NOT A DIME FOR DEFENSE

6/19/09

In the wake of reports that Dear Leader Kim Jong Il is preparing us an Independence Day surprise, in the form of a missile launch in the direction and vicinity of Hawaii, and that we are moving ground to air missile defenses and floating radar into position just in case the pudgy little dictator defies all odds, and history, and somehow succeeds in lighting this candle, Major General Robert G.F. Lee, adjutant general in charge of Hawaii’s Army and Air National Guard, felt compelled to state that the U.S. military “certainly has enough assets to protect the state of Hawaii.”

I certainly hope so. With all the money our wise overlords in Washington spend on “defense” that we have “enough assets to protect the state of Hawaii.”

This reminds me of the morning of 9/11/01, when, after the first plane was flown into the World Trade Center, the Air Force had a hard time scrambling F-16s and getting them into position to defend New York and Washington. But can you blame our public servants and their defense wunderkind hangers-on? After all, we are only talking about our nation’s capital, the financial center of the universe and our largest city, and our 50th, and perhaps most beautiful, state. These aren’t really important places, like Kuwait City, Baghdad, or Kabul.