Gates Shifts Military Spending: 'Not Every Defense Dollar is Sacred'

[Crabtownboy]

Gates is right on this one.

A draining war and record-high defense spending financed by borrowing are driving yet another effort to control the military budget.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, citing a "grim financial outlook'' but also the "growing peril of the future,'' Thursday announced minor shifts within the defense budget of about $178 billion over five years.
"Not every defense dollar is sacred,'' he told reporters at the Pentagon.
But, he warned, "We shrink from our global responsibilities at our peril,'' and he said under the current Obama administration plan, the defense budget will continue to rise modestly over the next five years.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/0...-fiscal-outlook-but-makes-minor-defense-cuts/

 

[targus]

Gates is right on this one.

And he is right about this... "We shrink from our global responsibilities at our peril..."

 

[billwald]

By putting our trust in "horses and chariots?"

 

[carpro]

For every dollar they ask our service personnel to sacrifice, an entitlement program should be cut 2 dollars.

 

[Salty]

For every dollar they ask our service personnel to sacrifice, an entitlement program should be cut 2 dollars.

Sounds good, and thats probably why they wouldn't do it

 

[rbell]

For every dollar they ask our service personnel to sacrifice, an entitlement program should be cut 2 dollars.

Sounds good, and thats probably why they wouldn't do it

Right on. Less votes would be bought that way. Sad, but true.

 

[carpro]

"By and large the world today is a pretty safe place,'' said Gordon Adams, professor of foreign relations at American University.

Gordon Adams is an idiot.

 

[Don]

Quote:

"By and large the world today is a pretty safe place,'' said Gordon Adams, professor of foreign relations at American University.

Gordon Adams is an idiot.

Wonder how Mr. Adams would respond to this?

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/12/28/next_years_wars?page=full

Across the globe today, you'll find almost three dozen raging conflicts, from the valleys of Afghanistan to the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the streets of Kashmir.

The rest of the article identifies 16 potential new conflicts in 2011.