However, when trillions of dollars are spent preparing to fight World War II where warfare no longer bears any resemblance to the way it used to be conducted, is it really unreasonable to review how we are spending all this money and find a few bucks that can be cut?
Spot gold prices were confined to a trading range that was the tightest in circa 100 days as the summer doldrums and the tug-o-war actions between the bulls and the bears made their presence felt in the trading patterns for the precious metal.
Despite the inspiration of Farouk and the bravery of Jasmina, our correspondent discovered that the Sarajevo he returned to still bears the scars of its years of war.
But, it is nonsense that Don Rumsfeld bears exclusive responsibility for our problems or that changing this horse in war's midstream will do other than complicate the military's role at a critical juncture.
As one of the five top commanders of the FMLN guerrillas in the 1980s, Handal bears personal responsibility for having plunged his country into a terrible internal war that cost tens of thousands of lives.