As loathe as I am to keep raising the same issue over and over, the one of China over-claiming the South China Sea keeps appearing on the different news sites I check. This time, Radio Free Asia has an article which contains quotes from the likes of D-VA, Jim Webb and R-AZ, John McCain who want the government to take a firm, open position which acknowledges regional alliances. In addition to their quotes which encourage engagement, the article provide a counter-point from Arizona County Sheriff Paul Babeu who questions why America has 30,000 troops sitting on their hands in South Korea while the AZ-Mexico border is understaffed with 1,200 National Guard.
What is the balance which we're comfortable with? Babeu claims 6,000 troops are needed to safeguard that border. According to GlobalResearch.ca, we have around 250,000 troops stations between 700 overseas bases. That implies we do have room to scale back overseas duties to fill domestic border ones, but the site also suggests we have 1,400,000 total military personnel, meaning we already have 1,000,000 sitting around inside our borders. What are their duties? Can they be shifted?
It feels like there's a large number of little details which will be very hard to find in order to make a strong decision to forward to our representatives. In that case, it may be best to define a framework of preferences so they can properly sort the choices in a way that reflects the desires of the people. This requires getting people to stake out a position on if they prefer using domestic troops for domestic duties first, of if they want to draw down foreign duties, even if that means idle troops. Are there regions which could be preferentially drawn down from first?
Engage your fellow netizens using the trolling rules in the eBook. Have them ask questions to clarify the parameters of revising or military expenses and allocations to have less waste and more impact. Report your results in the comments!
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
Friday, 24 June 2011
General Updates
Today's post is some brief fiction which was contributed to the Become a Supervillain blog. As well, I've started a Zazzle Store (http://www.zazzle.com/jotunn) with a short list of items, to be expanded as more posts are made and more artwork is created.
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