The mental image of Liz Cheney in cammies digging a foxhole made my morning….

Been to Boulder Dam lately?

They’ve been building a massive highway overpass above the gorge just downstream of Boulder Dam, which will allow the diversion of traffic from across the dam, significantly simplifying the job of defending against your doomsday scenario.

Often infrastructure and planning is a much better long-term strategy than going overseas to blow up stuff.

But those “bodies” need to be elite counter-insurgency specialists–the Special Forces of all branches of the service. We need to double the size of the Special Forces. Kerry was right about that.

An attack on America is more likely to be terrorist than ICBM these days. A suitcase nuke that was just big enough to blow a hole in Boulder Dam would send a torrential flood downstream where 100,000 Americans have built their homes. It would be comparable to the 2005 tsunami in devastation.

Having said that —- the highest priority should be given to protecting our forces, especially boots on the ground. We have to send them in harms way. I get that, but there is no reason to send them without the best equipment and systems, such as armor vehicles. And it goes without saying that we should be judicious about why and where we send them.

I have confidence that Gates and his staff are balancing the needs of our armed forces to meet those objectives – now and in the future.

Also, maybe you could encourage some the 20-something conservative pundits to go put on a frakking uniform for a few years like I did instead of sitting on the sidelines cheerleading our wonderful wars.

I know that the typical GOP concept of helping the war effort is making piles of cash on Wall Street and grinding out conservative screeds against Obama, but you’re mostly just a bunch of REMF’s to the men and women over there in the sand.

Education initiative, health care, infrastructure, and civilian technologies, yes.

We will be spending plenty on the military as it is.

Are we failing in either war due to a lack of weaponry? What sophisticated weaponry do our opponents have? Pretty low tech assault rifles and homemade explosives.

Why is spending tax money on stuff that no American uses (bombs and surveillance stuff) better than if the government just spent this stuff on, say, rail lines and highways. Stuff that might actually help the economy in some way, not stuff that gets blown up.

I am not advocating a new stimulus; just that spending on durable goods like infrastructure is much more helpful than pumping money into the economy for nothing that is useful to the consumers.