I’m not gone yet.[0] 
Since retirement (from my day-job) I’ve largely ignored defense issues like the actual reason America, the UK, Canada, … are trying to occupy southern Afghanistan, but Monday’s post [1] by Russ Winter caught my eye. Russ’s assertions about increasing tensions in the Upper Persian Gulf theatre of the war for Western energy security seemed a bit random, but at least they had me awake for the news [2] later in the day that the new US budget included significant defense increases for the next couple of years.
Then something clicked when I read Fleckenstein’s judgment [3] that "Withdrawing equity from one’s home was the economy, from essentially 2001 through sometime last year." (emphasis in original) Here was MSM support for a position I’d been trying to sell since at least late 2002.
