Socialists with typewriters: "You shouldn't be *scared* by plan to downsize the army."

I know you really shouldn't hate people who advocate things that will destroy the U.S.  I know it's not a positive or constructive thing.  But it's getting harder not to succumb to that emotion when you read articles like the crap written by the authors of "Think Progress."

This particular piece was about Hagel's plan (i.e. Obama's order) to cut the size of the Army down to what's been described as "1940 levels."  Now, history will be the ultimate judge of whether this is a good or bad idea.  I think it's bad, but that's not the point.  Rather, I'd like you to carefully consider the *arguments* used by the TP kiddies to support the cuts:

Moreover, the kind of war you really worry about if you’re an American war planner — wars with another state, like China or Iran — are practically extinct. “Since the end of the Second World War, the number of ongoing interstate conflicts involving...battle casualties has ranged from zero to six,” war scholars Christian Davenport and Scott Gates write. “Moreover, the trend has been one of decline:” from 2003-2008, there wasn’t a single interstate war.  In short: we live in the safest time in human history.

How fascinating, then, that at the top of the Think "Progress" web page--under "Trending," no less--were the words "Russia" and "Ukraine."  (They may not be there when you click the link, of course.)

Tell us--my Kumbayah-singing, soft-handed socialists--what do these two words "Russia" and "Ukraine" mean, in the context of "trending"? 

Here's a hint:  At this moment armed Russian *army* troops are surrounding garrisons of Ukrainian troops--in a part of Ukraine--and demanding the latter surrender.

I'm sure the Ukrainians are thrilled by your assurance that "interstate wars" are so f'ing rare.  In fact, since you tell us "we live in the safest time in history," this probably isn't even really happening.  Yeh, dat's it--it's all a fiction created by Faux News.

How did you charming socialists put it?  Oh yeah:  The kind of war one would "really worry about"--but only if you were "an American war planner"--no others need worry, see--is "practically extinct."

I'm sure your rock-solid conclusions are great comfort to the men, women and young people of Ukraine, who now face an interesting choice:  Surrender, or fight even though outnumbered and out-gunned.

Would that we could exchange these people for you and yours.  Then you'd have a chance to see the folly of your "assurances" and your lofty pontifications on war--a subject about which you clearly know absolutely nothing.

Oh, and about the "Hagel plan:"  It'll happen, because no one but congress has the authority to stop Obama from doing anything he wants, and congress has abdicated its duties.  And with that, a tiny bit more of the "design margin"--the margin that protects against stupidity or miscalculation by a foe--is given away.

Meanwhile America's little army of so-called "progressives"--believing there's nothing worse than income inequality or carbon or fossil fuels or religious bakers who resist baking wedding cakes for gay weddings--will keep chipping away at the armed forces for the rest of their lives.