" --- - The
United States has had a standing presence in the skies
around the world since the Cold War began. The division
of the Air Force that has that responsibility was
Strategic Air Command – that was the case until the
Berlin Wall went down. Since that time it is unclear who
is in charge of this vast nuclear fleet of global
bombers that always kept a full third of their forces in
the air, around the world, at all times prior to the end
of the Cold War. (1)
Those B-52’s were armed
with nuclear weapons, because they were part of our
forward defense shield to deter the communist regime of
the USSR from a pre-emptive attack upon the USA or on
any of our military bases scattered all over the planet.
We also had Trident submarines that also encircled the
seas – and they too carried nuclear weapons, theirs were
in the form of ICBM’s. What remains unclear today is who
now controls our nuclear bomber fleet – and what will
happen to them on September 14, when the US Air Force
grounds all its planes because of this “incident.’ (2)
Today there are 190 nations
in the world and we have 130 military bases on this
planet in other nations: If we do not have a WAR
department, why do we need so many bases? We call the
military—the Department of Defense—yet how can this be
considered a Defensive department - when so many of our
bases are still located in 130 other countries?
During the Cold War we
needed these satellite bases to rearm and refuel the
bombers and the submarines – but after the collapse of
the USSR –that ‘continuing treat’ was largely
neutralized—until of course we conveniently acquired the
“new” War on Terra.
All of this has cost the
taxpayers one hell of a lot of money—just to maintain
those bases; never-mind what it costs to provide
armaments for the planes, the ships and the troops that
are stationed there. All of this is in addition to what
we’re currently spending in Iraq and Afghanistan ($3
billion a week).
This does explain why this
government has chosen to fail to fund so many social
programs here at home. They need the money to feed the
US Military’s world-wide budget: a fixture that is
strangling every other need that Americans might
encounter, from Hurricanes to Health-care –the needs of
the American Military obviously trump all other
concerns.
The Congress is the branch
of government that has absolute control over the power
of the purse—and yet this colossal waste has only
continued to expand: apparently with no oversight at
all.
“Anyone who spends 10
minutes to Google and read Articles 1 and 2 of the U.S.
Constitution cannot mistake where the real power lies in
the federal government. In the system the Founders
designed for us, Congress not the President is the real
power. Congress makes all laws, raises and designs all
taxes, funds or refuses to fund all and any actions of
government, and their decision to fund anything that
government does, or not, is final.
Congress declares war, not
the President; and they can undeclare it or terminate it
or limit its scope at will by declaration. The
President has no say in the matter. He is the Commander
in Chief only of our operational military, not of the
entire country, and he commands operational military
forces only within the sphere allowed to him by Congress
and the Constitution.
With respect to the rest of the government, the
President merely presides, i.e.
he is a figurehead with some but not much influence over
the process of day to day governance;
and he labors even then
under the Constitutional mandate to "Take care that" the
laws are complied with.
The last time that the U.S.
Air Force was absent from the front lines in defense of
the United States, was on the morning of September 11,
2001.
The world saw what happened
on that day, and if the Air Force had not remained on
the ground, or away from their targets – then everyone
and almost everything after that first tower was hit,
could easily have been saved: because that was all part
of why the North American Air Defense System (NORAD) had
been created. (3)
The question now is “What
will happen on September 14, 2007 – when no US Military
aircraft will be allowed to fly on that day? (4)
