To play the devils advocate, if China had spy planes flying in our claimed terriortial waters off our mainland, we would've launched interceptors as well. Should the Chinese "use their brass" and stand up to America in this situation? Both the hypothetical Chinese move, and our own mentioned above, are antagonizing moves. The interceptors are just a reasonable reaction to the event, with no need to escalate things further with an unreasonable reaction.

As the incident a few days ago in Lancaster shows, it is more dangerous for untrained citizens to go play army outside a recruitment center. Leave the games to children, and let our military personnel and police forces deal with any threats. Even if we actually required people to get proper training on how to handle their weapons like most other countries that allow citizens to own guns, it shouldn't be allowed due to cultural differences and a big difference in mental mindsets that many (though not all) of the volunteers seem to have so far, which is being a redneck.

Nasa is the brave Indian warrior that asks for a few arrows and an animal skin for water, with a mission to explore the rim of the environment of the tribe. When they return with information of new and vast resources, the entire tribe benefits, not just the warrior. When you stop letting that warrior explore the world, you limit the entire universe for that tribe.

The budget of NASA should be greatly increased. (I'm glad to see most agree) The "we can't afford it" talking points is one of the biggest lies told by any anti-science politician. The entire history of NASA has been paid for with under 4/10th of a penny of America's tax dollar, and almost everything people use today can be traced back to NASA and the research they've done. We can easily afford to invest in our future, and have an incredible return on that investment, we just choose not too. Look up any speech or NASA budget committee meeting by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and find out the facts about America's budgeting, and what it is we're robbing ourselves, our children, and our childrens children from having by not investing in science.

Unfortunately, the only real way the budgeting will increase without replacing stone age politicians in Congress, is if Russia/China starts sending people to space in a manner during the cold war, and if that happens the current America will hand over billions to corporations like Boeing to deliver behind schedule, over budget, and underperforming platforms...

And before someone ask what NASA has given us, here is a "small" list of what NASA has contributed to society... The mouse, communications satellites and weather monitoring (hurricanes, wildfires, volcanoes, etc), Healthcare workers being able to monitor multiple patients at once, cochlear implants, cataract detection techniques, lifesears, breast cancer screening, insulin pumps, water filters, attention getters, UV coatings, scratch resistant glass, memory foam, safer more efficient planes, cars, and roads.... all of these and THOUSANDS of other things, can all be traced back to NASA and the work they've done for decades. Not to mention their current mission to send humans to Mars, and student climate of Earth, Venus and Mars to help people understand the effects of climate change.

...you still won't be able to see Russia from your kitchen window!

He meant what he said, but he didn't mean real functioning ships. The navy will instead have eight MODEL sized ships in their hands by the end of next year.

But in reality, it'll be in about 4 years, triple the price, and only half the size it was originally suppose to be, with many patch jobs needed to finish and fix what they delivered at a premium price!

Most in Gitmo have been cleared of any and all crimes, just no country wants to take them back. Only a very small percentage are suspected of being linked to something, and even then they haven't been brought to a court to face trial due to sketchy evidence, and the evidence they do have was obtained under illegal methods that no court, military or civilian, will accept.

Having a sovereign country pay it's own bills like a sovereign state isn't hating. It doesn't matter if it's Israel, Iraq, or Canada. America and it's $17 TRILLION + debt just can't afford it.

Over-grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty -George Washington

Waste of money. Over Budget, behind schedule, underperforming, and a platform without a mission or any use in the near, or far future that'll be worth the price. The only ones benefiting from this is the military industrial complex.

#CancelTheF35

You misread what I typed.. "The oppression for temporary safety has failed, and will continue to fail outside a genocide worse than that of WW2"

"Continue to fail outside a genocide worse than that of WW2" I never said there was a genocide, only that if Israel wants to take the route of oppression to achieve security, the only way it'll work is through a massive genocide campaign that'll make WW2 look like a boy scout party. History has shown time and time again that is the only way oppression brings peace, without it public opinion shifts (as already has been happening for years) and the oppressor suffers politically, even sometimes leading the repressive regime to fall apart from the pressure.

The problem with the peace negotiations is there tends to always be one side that makes absurd demands of the other. One year its the Palestinians, the next it's the Israelis. Neither side seems to elect the party that wants peace at the sametime. The latest rounds ended prematurely once Israel pulled out of the talks after the Palestinians ended their years long political feud and united under a single government again, basically a prerequisite to a worthwhile peace agreement. (You can't agree to peace with only half of Palestine). Then there was Israel demanding to be recognized as a Jewish state, a requirement they haven't had any other country agree to in any of the other peace negotiations between their neighbors. Of course the Palestinians had some demands that weren't so reasonable either, but the majority of the blame on this latest fallout falls into Israel's lap this time.