Ma'am; ...What you have to realize is that when those people say army, it is like Hitler in the bunker talking about his army... The thing is non existent, and they need to build it up if they expect to take up space the way they have... Armies should be about beating armies, and not be about occupying territory... When we no longer had organized resistence we should have departed the scene, gathered up our junk and come home...Our people are getting murdered by our own stupidity, and another great plane in the sky dealing death where no one is living is out of the question...If I were a general of the army I would fire all the yahoos that followed orders into Iraq and Afghanistan... I'll say: It is an intelligence test, and you lose...You cannot use an army built for defense which is the only essential of a democratic force, and toss it away on offense against people in their own homeland fighting for their lives and livelyhoods...Let me repeat: the army exists to defend against armies... There are other ways to deal with enemy populations, even if that means letting them form up to whip them again...We may not be able to get the world to like us, but we have found the perfect way to get them to hate our guts...Just go there, and break their houses and humiliate all you do not kill... If stupidity where God, this nation would bow... And it is because we put so much faith in ideologues and inserthecrats, and not enough in our own common sense and what we can learn with a book...Thanks...Sweeney