But as soon as we went in, then we realized—I think there was a sort of flagship signal—that we'd sent them in with those Iltis jeeps, and then we figured out that we were at war and we started spending. In fact, we were unprepared for that—that is true—but everybody was unprepared for 9/11 and what ensued.
What I've been trying to say is that there are conditions under which you cannot claim that we should spend more money. In the 1990s there was euphoria and everybody said the Cold War was over. So that was the time to cut. You can't call it the dark ages.
If you had made cuts during Afghanistan, that would have been the dark ages. We went in unprepared and we fully agreed, because we were just coming out of the cuts, and in a rush we started buying the air force equipment and the V-shape-bottom carriers against the explosive devices, and the bomb disposal equipment.
But you're right in a sense that at first we were unprepared, and then we started spending money.