[quote=craptcha][quote=Allan from Fallbrook] His Interstate Highway program was one of the largest military/defense program in US history. It contemplated an all-out war with the USSR and the need to move men and materiel quickly throughout the US.[/quote]
That’s why you need big and powerful enemy – it forces you to develop interstate highway, TCP/IP and race to the moon.
You don’t need to go to Mars in order to fight drugs and terror, you just need low radiation body scanners.[/quote]
Craptcha: We’ve got China and Russia now. Plus, Obama has been beating the war with Iran drum for quite some time now, along with waging a quiet war (think Stuxnet and assassination of Iranian physicists) there.
Oh, and don’t forget North Korea. While Kim Jong-Dumpling has been off banging his new bride, I’m sure he’ll lose interest shortly and come back to rattling his saber at the US and Japan.
