Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Conservatives flock to bomb this comment block based on the same ridiculously shameful philosophy they use to justify rewriting Wikipedia pages and burying positive liberal articles on Digg. You guys are so manic about what you believe you run around trolling the Internet laughably thinking that the more plentiful your position is the truer it is. It isn't. Literally, that makes it more cancerous. By the way, Google, it's an obvious mistake to allow people to post reviews if they haven't purchased the product from you.

From the book's preview (page 23 or so) : "We were a country that could afford to be generous to our returning veterans, and more than sixty years later we're still reaping the benefits of that generosity". RM then goes on to extol the virtues of all the governmental handouts (college, home loans etc) to people/vets after WWII (GI Bill stuff). Of course she thinks it's OK to spend other people's money (OPM) on the vets (it's akin to kissing babies) but there were a lot of downsides to this spending. Once the gov't got involved in subsidizing housing and college tuitions, the costs couldn't help but rise. We are still paying for this today. But RM thinks we got nothing but "benefits" from it.

Very informative book filled with insight and wit. At the very least, you will learn something, whether you agree or disagree with the author's perspective. Read this book in order to become a more aware citizen. The ratings and reviews for this book also aptly shows the polarization in American politics. 1 star ratings saying "liberal nonsense" that do nothing to contradict the facts and evidence in this book speak volumes.