Do you belive that the USA has a bad military?

leef

If your military is so great, why are they loosing in Iraq, and why are they making every attempt to get the Taliban support from the population again, by bombing civilians?
As far as I know they left what you call the "commie hippies" at home.
As soon as you can't use your superior technology, it shows that the actual people fighting aren't that great at all, at least not significantly/sufficiently better than their enemies.

All the past glory of WW2 is just that - past.

Art S

No I think we hav a great military. I think we have a weak cowardly Liberal population.

booman17

Not at all. We have the finest best trained military in the world. Left unfettered and given the proper rules of engagement, they would wipe the field with any opposition out there.

SouthernGrits

Our all volunteer military is the BEST in the world. Politics is what screws up military efforts nowdays.

Let the U.S. military and it's commanders run the war!

tom c

NO BAD LEADERS

Mark A

well, you answered your own question. The US's military is the BEST IN THE WORLD, but whether or not we have the will to use it correctly from a political standpoint is something else.

yeah_but_we_all_are

No it just has a bad Commander in Chief, a realllly bad one.

andrew5544

Our military power is a joke.... we could destroy the entire world in less than 24 hours... i Mean, Literally make the world uninhabitable... how is that weak

Michael P in NJ

We have the world's greatest military. But we also have possibly the worst commander-in-chief.

mary

OUR MILITARY IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD.

NOT ONLY WELL TRAINED FOR COMBAT, BUT THEY ARE BRAVE, LOYAL, SACRIFICIAL AND HONORABLE.

WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE BLOGS YOU CAN HEAR ANYTHING IF YOU WAIT LONG ENOUGH.

DON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE MILITARY IN MY PRESENCE OR YOU WILL GET AN EARFUL!!!

GOD BLESS EM!! THEY ARE GREAT!

rz1971

I'd ignore it, considering that France lost the Vietnam first. I guess they don't know their history as much as well.

edb_us

We have a very good military. We have very poor political leadership.

The military needs very clear direction, and it also needs to know that they are defending us from direct attack. When you send the military into an area for "nation building", police work, or other peripheral activities you are detracting from their mission.

And when you send them halfway around the planet on the basis of incompetent intelligence or outright lies, you diminish the resources available should we ever come under direct attack. Not to mention the adverse effect on their morale.

irma c

we have a great military, we just have a screwed up president. who cares what those people say. they are just haters of the united states, they know they can't scare us.

RAY N

Did you see them running in their underwear crying like little girls You say the euro and Brits said "we will dis troy the U.S." War is not throwing things at each other at a football game You haven't been around them when it's one on one and they get out of line just lean in and tell them to shut up or you going to split their face open they shut up !

eyesinthedrk

We have the best military in the world, we also have the most intrusive and corrupt media in the world, we stomped the nation of Iraq at the time the 4th largest military in the world in less than 3 months, (understand what that means, china Russia USA Iraq) 12 years later we stomped the country itself in less than one month, Europe and our own media wanna say how we need to pull out and that now we are an occupation force, but notice that they don't mention that there are still french troops under u.n. control occupying kosivo, or how the allies occupied post ww2 Germany for over seven years,

james w

we have a great military and anyone who says different is either stupid or jealous, however no army or fighting force can be effective if they have their hands tied, and our politicians have pulled this same **** since Korea, but as Gen, MacArthur and Gen Patton said after WW11 they both said America would never win another war, Have we??
this is just another P.C, idea that don't work, it seems our politicians would wake up and see this and make the necessary changes, or are they paid off to be this way if so who profits from it???it sure as hell is not the poor slob who is getting shot at, But it must be some one big,

ventriq

SouthernGrits' comment is so accurate that I'll repeat it:

"Our all-volunteer military is the BEST in the world. Politics is what screws up military efforts nowdays."

If only we didn't have 535 Congresspeople debating the issue IN PUBLIC, and taking positions with an eye to the polls and trying to win the next election by making their opponents look bad. The net effect is that EVERYONE looks bad (all the politicians, that is) and our nation appears to have no unified direction and no resolve.

Add to that the news agencies trying to report everything and predict what all the politicians and military are going to do and what the public is going to think of it, and you really have a very difficult situation. One can only wish that the enemy were blessed with a democratic system of government and a free press. Sure, we love democracy and freedom of the press, but if it increases the amount of terrorism in the world (and I think it does right now), then you have to wish that the politicians and the press would THINK about what they're doing and how they could avoid hurting our national interests.

Final note about France:
When the U.S. was asking members of the UN to send forces to go into Iraq and remove Saddam from power, Jay Leno made the following comment:

"France announced today that they will not help the U.S. throw Saddam Hussein out of Iraq.
Well, that's no surprise. In World War II France wouldn't help the U.S. throw Hitler out of France."

Perry M

Our military is the Greatest strength this side of the sun, no one can and or ever will beat us. the reason we were defeated in those police conflicts is not due to bad leadership or a bad commander and chief, but due to the American way of life, no matter who is in charge you always have to add our 10 cents in and blame the person you don't like.. and that my friend is called politics and the president is nothing more than a scape goat for congress, and the American public. We have never lost a war, we have retreated for police actions.
And as for the French and or all Europeans for that matter they are like a small children wanting to have what the big brother has, whining and crying about everything as they grow. The EU is a new land of old countries and they are now realizing that together they are strong but they still want to be individuals. Give them time they will grow up.

Pretsler

If the United States doesn't have the best army who does?...Because were not facing an enemy in Iraq, were being faced by people who look like they have a baby in their arms but its really a bomb- Terrorists lack all courage (Kinda like france!)

Our military could take out the whole freaking country of iraq within a couple days if the president would just let them do their job. Our military is the best of the best

rabbitinthamoon

best in the world, are troops are equal to english i beleave : )

jonn449

We have a great military! The problem lies with each member of Congress and the Senate each think they have a say in how the military is to run once we are in combat.
No where in the military chain of command is there a single congressman or senator.
We can have only one Commander-in Chief!

bradxschuman

No...just misguided.
Hey, we could have just stayed out of Europe all together last century, and left it to either the Nazis or the Soviets!

Norskeyenta

The Giant will never go down. We have one of the best Military full of Dedicated men/women. Europe should be ashamed of themselves , because look what America did to help them. Evidently the people who say negative against America, are too young to remember how the USA, defended them and fed them when they were starving. The European women and children would run to meet the troops of American Soldiers. They were happy to see them , because they knew that help was there and on it's way. So whatever you do, is not to listen and believe the European Propaganda. Please don't degrade the Soldiers who served in Vietnam. All three of my brothers served and it was awful what they had to endure. So unless you know the entire truth, do not listen to Propaganda. Just from the way you write, I can tell your very young. Many Europeans are simply jealous of America. It is a true example of the saying: Bite the hand that helped them.

Mark H

Our military is the best in the world today. Even after Iraq. We really have the most best trained and healthiest and equipped in our history. It is just too small. It is too selective of a representation of our national population. We need a draft again for two reason's. First is number's. We need more. Second is to share the pain. I hate to say it but overall this war has never been so unequal in that way. I am waiting for Jame's Webb to eventually run for president. He has been both (R) and (D), was a Vietnam marine. And has a son a current Jarhead. In spite of my joke's about marine's, no one I would like to have more next to me in a fight or leading me at the national level. I think when Webb has the pull to run he will reverse our trend in downhill at the presidential level if he win's. It won't happen in the next election, but eventually I think it will. I have this feeling he will be the first Vietnam veteran to be president and also one of our greatest overall.

SeÃ±or Spok

US decline is irreversible,its not only bestial force what is needed to conquer a country, Iraq is an example.

aaron

no but ask yur president about this.

jmminnc

The men and women are the best. The problem come from high on not just the president but the Generals that are more into politics than fighting a war. We need generals that will state the truth and do what is right to win They should not care if it hurts them in the rush for the next star. Bush is in no way the best commander but he is by far better then Kerry or Gore would have been.

I need to add this it is hard to fight a war if a knife is in your back. The Dems put it there and love to twist it.

Europe? Who the Hell cares what happens in Europe or what they say, Britain would be the only country over there I really give a sh!t about. Without the US, theyd all be speaking German or dead.

Were not loosing to little countries, we kicked their @sses militarial wise, but as you said its the Hippy Liberals and Commies that are making this occupation what it is. We went in, took out their leader, took out their military, took control of the entire country, created a new government w/ its own fighting force...Wait, wasnt that the objective of this whole operation in the first place?

Just because Europes, again excluded Britain, have been sitting on their @sses since before WWI doing nothing doesnt mean they can critisize those doing something. The US could defeat all of Europe in conventional War hands down, and w/ Britain at their side they dont really need anyone else.

ed c

You have some fine men and women serving in your military, being guided by unsound tactics and operating procedures.

If your military could learn to adapt quicker to its surroundings,l then they would have a lot more success.

You only need to look to Iraq's second largest city Basra. The military there is UK lead, and things are much quieter there.

And its sad to see, but if this website is anything to go by, American troops do not get the support they deserve from the population back home.

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