As I indicated in CounterPunch on 3 February 2010, the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) just released by the Obama Pentagon is a bad joke. That bad joke is about to be given the good housekeeping seal of approval by a special panel appointed jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the defense barons of the Armed Services committees in Congress. When this happens, rest assured, any desire to get control of the out-of-control defense budget will plunge far below its already low level. Chalk up another victory in the Military - Industrial - Congressional Complex’s (MICC’s) war on the Constitution, the American taxpayer, and programs like Social Security and Medicare, which are hallmarks of civilized society.
"Conservatives" who think the United States should be "strong" on defense need to re-evaluate their premises and learn about the sort of conflicts we are engaged in now and will be in the future. Even if they believe we need a military that can occupy territory and capture natural resources, expensive toys will not help it accomplish those goals.
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