Problem: We're focusing too much attention on the wrong threats to our security.

We now know that there was no imminent threat from the regime of Saddam Hussein. That's why I've broken out Iraq as a topic separate from this brief discussion about our national security. The thousands of lives and the billions of dollars that that have been consumed in Iraq have crippled our abilities to effectively fight the war on terror where it is most urgently needed - in Afghanistan, the Peshawar region of Pakistan, and a thousand other places whose names will never be known. We have failed to implement the most basic recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Report.   We're wasting billions of dollars on a Maginot Line missile defense system when we should be focusing more resources on the containment of weapons-grade nuclear material. I've visited some of the Maginot forts in France - In the sprawling passageways there are signs that read, "ils ne passeront pas" - "They shall not pass." Well guess what, folks. They did.

Solution: Elect a Congress that will take charge of the defense process and re-focus our resources on the right threats.

We should implement every single one of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations. It is unconscionable that we have not. We should cancel white-elephant, cold war relic projects like missile defense, the V-22 Osprey, and yes, even the F22 Raptor. The missile defense system won't work. Neither will the Osprey, and its projected cost is more than $100,000,000 per aircraft - We could buy an awful lot of helicopters for that price. And the F22? How does $388,888,888 per plane grab you? The B-2 bomber, at over a billion dollars a copy, is far too expensive to maintain. Let's focus more resources on remotely piloted vehicles, the Joint Strike Fighter, basic military readiness, better armor for our troops, and infrastructure to support operations around the globe aimed at containing all real and emerging threats. I spent thirteen years of my career working inside the defense industry - I know a little bit about what goes on there. Give me a chance to take the politics out of defense appropriations and I'll show you what I can do.
 

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