Aloha Mr Di Rocco.  The Republicans were not a loyal opposition to Obama, by your definition.  What was loyal about stealing a Supreme Court seat – to cite just one example? They would not even do their constitutional duty and hold hearings on Obama’s nominee.   On the military.  We need to shrink our armed forces.  We have troops in 150 countries.  The engagement in wars in the Middle East has fostered the rise of Al Qaeda and Daesh and made us less secure not more.  The more than $4 trillion spent on Iraq and Afghanistan could have been spent not just to make America better at home, but if just a fraction had been invested in improving the lives of people in the Arab world, maybe they would hate us less.  We should invest more in foreign aid instead of the military.  Besides, the nature of war is changing , we need more robots and drones, not more planes and ships. (more...)