by:
Barry Eisler, Truthout |
News Analysis
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants you to be scared.
In a letter to Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain,
Panetta warned that after possible cuts in the military budget, "we
would have the smallest ground force since 1940, the smallest number of
ships since 1915, and the smallest Air Force in its history."
Which would be pretty damn bad ... if we wound up having to go to war
with America's 1940 Army, 1915 Navy, or some historical version of
America's Air Force.
If we're lucky, though, and don't have to go to war
with past incarnations of our military,
Panetta's comparison is
logically nearly irrelevant. In fact, even the most massive cuts
currently under consideration would return American military spending only to 2007 levels.
So, as long as we don't have to go to war with our 2007 military, we should be O.K.
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