>"I wonder how many schools, libraries and clinics could be built, stocked and manned with the $1.3 billion each B-2 bomber costs."

I agree with you. If there IS a higher intelligence (other than those of us who can see past the bloodlust), you would hope it would stop this senseless cyle of being born only to kill your fellow man for some petty notion of theft or territory. Or power. I guess it's inbred, but it doesn't make sense. Maybe we are born to annhilate ourselves, a cruel joke on humanity.
We area nation of followers, not thinkers.

Obama inherited a war that should never have been. He has so much on his plate. Dismantling the excesses of the military and their commanders, along with the mega banks and corporations and their commanders....is no easy task. We need to keep speaking out and we need to be patient.