This week's missile launch 35 miles off the coast of California makes me wondering how much bang for the buck we are getting with that $80 billion. It also makes me wonder who the federal government is spying on? Our foreign enemies or the citizens of the United States that the federal government seems intent on labeling as domestic terrorists.
We are left to ask these questions after a missile and trail of smoke was seen flying off the California coast on Monday, and the Pentagon seems ignorant of what it could be. Norad doesn't have a clue either, nor does the federal air traffic controllers.Everyone seems to be playing stupid with the American people. Theories from the federal government have gone from "no clue" to it was probably an airplane.
An airplane? And the air traffic controllers knew nothing of it? What were their actions with the plane didn't identify itself?
This reminds me of aChinese submarine that surfaced in the middle of a US Navy exercise. I am very curious to know what exactly are we getting with our $80 billion in intelligence spending? Here's the story of the Chinese submarine suddenly surfacing where US ships were training in the Pacific.
American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.
By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.
According to senior Nato officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy.
The Americans had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a threat.
One Nato figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik" - a reference to the Soviet Union's first orbiting satellite in 1957 which marked the start of the space age.
The incident, which took place in the ocean between southern Japan and Taiwan, is a major embarrassment for the Pentagon.
The lone Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other American warships which were supposed to protect the carrier from hostile aircraft or submarines.
And the rest of the costly defensive screen, which usually includes at least two U.S. submarines, was also apparently unable to detect it.
According to the Nato source, the encounter has forced a serious re-think of American and Nato naval strategy as commanders reconsider the level of threat from potentially hostile Chinese submarines.
Is it possible that a Chinese submarine like the one that embarrassed the United States Navy a couple of years ago came within 35 miles of the coast of California and launched a missile to show there military mite? Could it be the United States Department of Defense knows exactly what happened but doesn't want to be embarrassed by how unprepared they were for the incident? These are questions we may never know because our government doesn't promote freedom and honesty like we all want to believe. It's quite possible that we may be far less prepared despite an astonishing $740 billion in defense and intelligence spending than we want to believe. I wonder if this incident will be used to justify more defense spending, which the Republicans have already promised as they declare this great Republic "broke."
