If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.
Most of the men who complain about lower numbers of push-ups and chin-ups for women - they're the fat guys at the desks who can't do 'em themselves!
Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
The FBI is a fabulous crime-fighter, the best in the world, but they need to get out of the terrorism business. We need something to fight terrorism domestically that's not fighting banks. Maybe like the British MI-5.
The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.
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