influence around the world and maybe this space thing was icing on the cake here. it doesn t make americans feel good. power flows from the barrel of a gun. we disarmed ourselves. we let ourselves become weak all over the world. we only have a smattering of troops in all of europe. it s a pathetic situation. our navy has been cut to virtually nil our air force is cut. we did not elect mr. obama to be a unilateral disarmer, but that is what he is doing. except that is not true. mr. putin does not work on the base of morally superior to me. it s interesting what ben says and the metaphor which i agree with, it isn t true. he didn t use the metaphor. gary did. ben went away from the metaphor. i understand. we have 60,000 troops in europe,
account for 3/4 of the budget of nato. we are still a superpower and have chosen for budget reasons not to pursue space the way we used to. we were relatively friendly with russia. while i think the metaphor is right, i agree with everything gary said. we do have these structural problems. fox news alert. we can t lose sight of the fact we still are the world s military superpower, far more powerful than russia. where does this go? bottom line is the world doesn t follow or lead the president s poll numbers continue to get worse. americans perception about where they stand doesn t seem to get much better. that s why i was never in favor of doing away with the space shuttle program then having this gap, which we ve known about for years. president bush signed off on getting rid of the space shuttle program. we would have this gap when we