What's happening is very familiar to anyone who's played a strategy game like Starcraft. One team has lots of cheap units and equipment - we'll call them the Terrorists (or the Chinese, looking to future wars here). Another team has very expensive yet powerful units - that's us. Which team wins depends on the leaders and by controlling resources. Sure, we can kind of win against a backwater country like Iraq but look at the cost to us - over $100 billion. What would happen if we went up against China? We'd be bankrupt within a year. Going against something as nebulous as terrorism may not be much better.

With his tax cuts, Bush is taking money from somewhere in order to boost up Defense. Let's see: Education, Infrastructure, Social Security - it'll all have to make sacrifices for Defense. Simple math.

Our military is falling into a trap of producing expensive and inexpendable units. Umpteen millions for next generation fighter plane that gets dropped by a cheap missile or a malfunction. That's a major loss. That's a lot of taxpayer dollars just gone, not to mention the human loss. We need a cheaper way.

Suggestions: expand the unmanned military, which will reduce the need for supplies. Use simple, cheap, armed drones instead of multi-million dollar uberJets. Make Allies instead of going it alone. (This is where Bush fails - Ol' Bubba gotta do it himself).

Or, better still, how about we focus on our own country for a bit. By cooling the rampant Americanism removes what the Terrorists screech about. Because what Bush is doing now is exactly what fuels the Terrorists, which means he's aiding them and hurting us. Tone it down, Bubba, and you might make us safer for real.