The country's endless wars, foreign occupations and targeted drone killings have stretched our military thin, robbed us of resources needed to shore up our infrastructure, and left us vulnerable to blowback, and yet the U.S. government has committed close to $6 trillion to advance wars in the Middle East and prop up the military industrial complex.
"It's stretched our resources to the brink, to breaking points in some respects, and we've got through it.
This has stretched government resources thin, as the traditional winter lull in fighting has so far failed to take place in the warmer, southern provinces.
The implementation of the EU 'hotspot' system, which forces all migrants to be fingerprinted on arrival in Italy, and the failure of the EU's relocation scheme, which has meant more refugees are housed in Italy and Greece than most EU members, has stretched Italian resources and created a dynamic that encourages abuse, Amnesty said.
"These days at the agency, bin Laden and Al Qaeda appear to be treated merely as first among equals". In recent years, the war in Iraq has stretched the resources of the intelligence agencies and the Pentagon, generating new priorities for American officials.
Meeting the needs of rapidly growing numbers of poor individuals and families has stretched the resources of suburban jurisdictions.
This spike in activity has stretched firefighting resources thin and brought increased health and safety risks to an inherently dangerous job.
The fall of Ramadi earlier this year and the subsequent bid to reclaim it has stretched resources and pushed Mosul to the bottom of the agenda for the Iraqi army and its US allies.
The vast majority of identity crimes go unsolved, because the number of cases has stretched law enforcement resources thin.
Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, says immigration courts are "dramatically underfunded" and the focus on cases of recent crossers has stretched resources thin.
The rush to buy up as many homes as possible has stretched resources to the point of breaking, these people said.
