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Originally posted by Cletus Miller
Current political reality means that the left cannot support cutting defense spending. It also requires ridiculous balancing of spending among the 3 branches and between operating and capital (i.e. new weapon systems) expenditures--which leads to wasteful spending on unneeded new weapons systems and ill-advised allocations to the Navy and Air Force during a war being fought by the Army (leading to the Navy and AF getting huge $$ that could be better spent right now supporting the troops on the ground in Iraq). If you want the defense budget cut, ask a republican congressman.
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Those kind of issues are the sorts of things we need to see vetted in the Journal and NYTimes oped pages instead of debates between shrill idiots which gloss over the holes in ther respective positions and push silly polarizing ideologies.
The simple rational consideration that govt should be made more nimble isn't a partisan thing. Move the money where it needs to be, like a business.
Rumsfeld had a good idea in remaking the military along those lines. And then he went nuts. Selah.
