If our government cant put there foot up someones ass at BP what do you think there going to do for out troops. They know that the 556 is an inadequate man stopper, they have the ability to fix the problem but there heads are up there asses. The red tape and in fighting is the problem.
The problem is threefold.
1 Donald Rumsfeld style "cheapness". Millions for sattelite guided gizmos, nothing for grunts.
2 A lack of vision. Why are we cabable of putting a man on the moon, a cruise missile into someone's bedroom window from one thousand miles away, (literally) and get you to and from the battlefield at twice the speed of sound, and we can't come up with a decent $1000 per unit gun? Bullshit!
3 If we wanted to fix it quick (though it woud be non ideal) we could use emminent domain to ramp up AK carbines and M14s by the end of the month. We don't, probably for good reason. Still, it seems obvious that a new caliber and hopefully a new platform is required. I could live with an AR-10 or a 6.8, but I'd like to think we can do better. Hell, come up with something that wil be around for the next fifty years.
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