Alexis @ 88 said:

General Groves built the Pentagon ahead of schedule and under budget. That’s why his next assignment was the Manhattan Project. …. Leadership does make a difference.

Precisely my point. That was almost 70 years ago. Two generations. We have bred the leadership out of the military by choice. Stupidly, but we have. We do not have them kinds anymore in place. For proof – see the reaction to Ft. Hood.

So, your point was? I think you have proved mine for me.

michaelhoskins @ 90:

Skilled engineering and construction personnel … and industrial capacity for long lead items, particularly the reactor vessel. We have allowed the second two items to languish.

Precisely. Because of the tree huggers we have allowed our industrial capacity to die. Not slow down, not decay, DIE! We cannot make steel effectively. We have let the skills of building big sh-t go away or offshore. Here is the thing, should we find ourselves facing a determined foreign set of enemies who want us defeated, conquered and occupied, what could we do with our access to good steel, aluminum and other things cut off? And can you see the gathering storm clouds yet? Hmm?

The current crop of wimps in the WH would fold like a sorority house during a pant raid. We are in deep sh-t and most ignore it.

spindok:

Perhaps he cannot rally the nation to war because he is less shallow than I thought. Maybe he cannot rally the nation because he tastes the bile as he says it. That tells me he believes in something, however wrong it may be. Yet I always thought he believed in only himself.

Much too complex. Apply Occam’s Famous Razor. “…he believed in only himself.” Pathological narcissist who is played by the PLAYAH’s. HE thinks he shall be king of the world. They only want Freedom to die and they will be the Tyrants, not HRH BH0bama. That he would be vaporized in the flash of the nuke that takes out DC gives them their martyr to parade to the world.

0bama is only the precursor, the 1st wave, of what is to come.