As Thinking_exUSAF said, these are hardly going to be used to put down street demonstrations and they will not be delivered for about 4 years. Byron just had his automatic "reply" function set to ON and has not yet thought about the idea at all.

You reply to a conversation that is 31 WEEKS old and you call someone else a Tool?? Why not go back and debate the Boer War??? Are you connected by a 1200 baud modem, and located in the Australian outback??

Fortunately this threat is totally unrealistic and so your proposed spending is unneeded. Iran is gonna sail PT boats up and down the Atlantic coast??

First, we should define just what "Iraq" is! Certainly the non-Sunni (the system will not allow their sect's name) Iraqis have a very close relationship with the similar sect in Iran - but let us not forget that Iranians are Persians and the non-Sunni Iraqis are not. When we have pulled out, expect a very close relationship but cracks will appear in it soon. How we react will be decisive. The Kurdish Iraqis are not gonna have a close relationship with Iran, in spite of the fact that both are non-Sunni. Iran fears that the Kurds will try to pry the Iranian Kurds out of that country. And the Sunni Iraqis are not ever gonna like the Iranians at all.
So - let's pull out and then continue to work with the Kurds and Sunnis. We might keep the Iranians very busy, enough to distract them from some other troublemaking. Where I say "non-Sunni" here, insert the proper name of the sect (S----e, the system here will not display it).

If STemplar had knowledge of the booster industry, he would know that the Atlas engines are made by a Russian company (partly in) the Ukraine. What is the most expensive part of a booster?
The Delta uses a version of the Space Shuttle Main Engine, made in the USA. For that reason it is a bit more expensive than the Russian engine.

To expand on what Champ and Mio are saying...

The number of executives is far higher than 2100 - since AF Wing Commanders are O-6s in many cases. To the numbers of Flag officers and SESes, add Colonels, GS-15s, etc. And does that include the Reserves and Guard?
But that does not tell the whole story - many of those executives run organizations which have dubious reasons to exist. I must mention the National Guard for one, it is NOT the organization called for by the Constitution and all of it's defense work is done under Federal orders.
In the civilian world, people start ten companies selling computers - and nine of them fail. We cannot allow ten divisions to attack and have nine of them fail. So the military is different from the civilian world.
Still, the military has a higher proportion of Flag officers today, and the "tooth to tail" ratio is less favorable, than a few earlier times. We could easily find reliable studies that say exactly that.
So, there are cuts that could be made that would actually improve the effectiveness of the force.

If you look at the challenges of going to a destination that would be something like 1.3 million miles away, and the risks involved, it is clear (I don't know if they would allow me to link to an analysis, might have to submit it here) that we will not be technologically able to go (with people) for many decades. This purported 2025 mission is pure fantasy, unfortunately. Robotic missions are still very tough and sending people adds many layers of difficulty.

Did the Cubans or North Koreans do that?? I thought it was our allies, the Saudis. Hmmm. Bin Laden was a what, a Saudi??

The recent NK tests have shown very unreliable rockets, and the reports I have seen say that their nukes are of dubious value. They can torpedo SK ships but do you think that they threaten the US territory????

We do NOT need an Air Force One at all, we could put a cabin in a C-17 and be done with it.