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Trippling the "SOF" budget would give the SEALs the extra Virginia Class Subs and latest generation SDVs they've been politicing for. After all - didn't they just prove they're worth it? Even if true - it isn't going to do a damn thing for SF. Too many platforms to maintain/purchase (what did the helo they just lost cost?) and every "Black" program costs astronomically more than an equivalent "White" program. Be a lot of happy congresscritters though as NAVSOC, AFSOC, and ARSOF Aviation spend money like water on jobs programs in their districts.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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