Excerpt from Can we afford a Obama SURRENDER doctrine/dividend?

ObamaBinBiden doctrine will be the “Surrender First” policy.

But more so to my point over the long haul. Remember when Donald Rumsfeld said ‘you have to go to war with the army you have?’ What he should have said was “We had to go to War with the diminished Armed Forces that the Democrats and the Clinton Administration left us!” Down 200,000 Troop level, that extra amount for that “over-whelming” force we could have had. Remember all those calls about not having enough ARMOR? Again, what administration cut back on Defense preparedness spending?

Bill Clinton harmed this country, and we are paying the price ever since, for his supposed “Peace Dividend.” …

The Obama plan will similarly cut Defense and weaken America, I coin it the “Surrender Dividend,” which will hurt our country far beyond what Clinton did during a “relative” time of Peace (if you define it as absence of all-out-war, while we were under attack left and right during Clinton and he just lobbed an occasional Cruise Missile). The Clinton “Ignore Terrorism and maybe it will go away” doctrine escalated to the apex of the 9/11 attacks.

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Although I agree that the kind of cuts the Democrats want would be excessive and dangerous. We will probably have to have some cuts in defense spending as we wind down the war in Iraq.

Look, here is the thing that no one on the left or right wants to face: We are broke.

let me repeat,

We are broke.

We have a looming social security crises,
Deficit spending, a huge debt, 700 billion to the financial markets, the states have their own unfunded liabilities.

We are broke. I see major austerity or major inflation, or both in the future.

So whether we like it or not, we will have to cut in all areas, and the military is one area that is ripe with cost overruns,
redundancy, and out right fraud.

Even conservatives have to admit that. Those things always multiply during a war when you need something right away and don’t have time to look closely at the cost.

wait until the Beltway Bandits stop getting contracts, and start releasing people in droves.

Remember, folks—contracters generally work on a series of one-year contracts. I.e., a five-year contract normally has only one or two base years, and the rest of the years are “option years.”

That means that, every year, the government has the option to modify the contract or drop it altogether.

Job security under an Obama-Frank administration will be per se in jeopardy for that reason alone.

Now, add onto it a stated desire by one of the two leading Congressional Democrats on financial issues (Dodd being the other) to cut defense by one quarter!

You don’t want to fire the government DOD employees. So…who has to go?

That’s right…

Good point about all the businesses in Chantilly, Sterling, Tysons Corner, Centreville, Ashburn, Leesburg and other places that will see revenue drop sharply if those contracting companies evacuate large numbers of those office complexes along Routes 7 and 28 near Dulles Airport.

Good thing I live in Arizona!

As Kyle points out above, we are broke. Paying down the debt and starting to live within our means ought to be way near the top of priorities. I am not comfortable borrowing more from the Chinese or future generations to maintain the same level of government waste which brings me to my next point…

Northern Virginia is covered with piglets each reaching for a government teat. Back when the government was a more reasonable size, that whole area didn’t exist. We should be pushing to return to that time, not encouraging the status quo.