I have to say, that much ordinance discharged should have a much better outcome than the current status quo.

Either we can't hit the broadside of a barn with our targeting or we simply are throwing bombs blindly all over the deserts in a vain attempt to kill everything in sight.

Neither of those make me feel "safer"

I am also a little disgusted how he says "the Contract is signed". See, 40 years ago, we had our own Depots and we had federal employees building munitions for our military. We dialed up stuff as quickly as we needed. Now, thanks to Reagan and his cronies, we have "Contracts". It takes a year just to get a Contract in place, plus now we get to pay the Contracts Manager, the Program Manager, and on and on....oh, and all of them bill out at at least $120/hr.


Does this make America safer? Stronger? NO! However, it helps Rethuglicans get elected and gives the dual benefit of screwing the federal employee (all the Depots are closed now) and pads the pockets of Boeing and Martin Marietta who in turn, pad their pockets. It is a ruse.

"he says "the Contract is signed"" She, not he.

with this tough-talk John Wayne bullshit? Who fucking talks like this? We'll give you more money, just shut up.

that had we dropped the same tonnage in bowling balls we could have covered the entire country -- five times over! (Can't find the source for this -- just one of those factoids that takes up space in my head.)

Because of Iraq War II we ran through so much ammunition that by 2013 we had to buy it from the Israelis. source

It would probably be cheaper to give every member of ISIS $100,000 not to attack us.

If we keep hitting goat herder tents with bombs worth half a million. At least drop it on a target worth half a million. Do the math.

my tax dollars at work!

Congratulations all of you greedy people who make bombs. You're rich. On the surface.

Sigh.

War's a racket, so I'm told
Fought by sons for sins of old
It's good for business, that is all
Fine men go - and there they fall
Gone for some old geezer's gold

Leaden bullets, bought and sold
Big boats and all those guns they hold
Need a reload? You just call
War's a racket

Now the dead are not yet cold
But still we must be brave and bold
Though ghastly toll and bloody gall
Latest takings seem too small
To those dudes and the shares they hold
War's a racket

-nearbeer

Sad words -

I remember a story my mother told me about sitting on a bus crowded with women coming home from the factories during WWII. A woman was telling her friend how she hoped the war would never end because she was making a lot of money in overtime. Another woman got up and slapped her and with tears streaming done her face sobbed at her that her husband was killed in action that week.

Yah, business is good.

"They ran out of bullets." I'll post a link in a few hours.

And there's ALWAYS money for bombs, isn't there?

then the waste on luxury villas in Afghanistan:


https://theintercept.com/2015/12/03/pentagon-task-force-spent-nearly-150m-on-villas-and-3-star-meals-in-afghanistan/

And on and on.

As I've said before, our model for a "country" isn't sustainable through mid-century and beyond.

Not when climate change effects begin kicking in in earnest....