Interesting factoid illustrating national priorities at work. Stephen Flynn, author of America the Vulnerable:
We are spending more every three to four days in the war in Iraq than we’ve spent for the last three years in federal grant monies to our 361 commercial seaports and that kind of asymmetry between about three cents on the dollar for defense versus offense I argue doesn’t make much sense when our enemies are not going to take us on, on the traditional force to force.
They’re coming after the non-military elements of our power, the things that underpin our power, our economy and our civil society. That is something that we’re still struggling post 9/11 to come to grips with.
But hey, if Al Qaeda forms an armored column and stages an assault on our Baghdad schools, we’ll be ready.