Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte brought their “Preserving America’s Strength” roadshow to Fayetteville on July 30. They sounded the alarm that congressional cuts to the defense dept. mandated to begin in January by the 2011 Budget Control Act, would weaken our defenses, cost North Carolina 12,000 jobs, and break faith with our military service members and their families. “A terrible, terrible calamity!” to quote John McCain.