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Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Owen Graham and Jackson Marsteller-On October 27, 2011:
“In his straightforward and scathing piece for today’s New York Post, Heritage senior fellow Peter Brookes discussed the devastating impact a sequestration of the defense budget would have on America’s military.
If the congressional “super committee” cannot find $1.5 trillion in budget savings over the next 10 years by November 23, the law would trigger automatic spending “sequestration” cuts of $1.2 trillion—of which roughly half a trillion or more would be from the defense budget. This spells major trouble for U.S. national security.
Since President Obama has been in office, Brookes points out, there have already been some $850 billion in Defense Department spending cuts (past, present, and future) over a 10-year period. These cuts eliminate 50 major weapons programs, and any more cuts would, in the words of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, “be shooting ourselves in the head.”
These are scary words coming from (in Brookes’s words) “previously a green eye-shade ‘budgeteer’” like Panetta, but they are backed up by a recent House Armed Services Committee report that spells doom and gloom for our military and our economy if more cuts are made.
According to the report, the cuts would effectively “hollow out” America’s military. They would deeply undermine the Marine Corps and the expeditionary fighting force, leading to the smallest force in 50 years and compromising their ability to deploy to hot spots quickly in the event of a crisis—a hard-learned lesson from the Korean War. The cuts would take the Army below pre-9/11 troop levels and lead to an Air Force with two-thirds fewer fighters and strategic bombers than in 1990.
And last but not least, the Navy would have to mothball over 60 ships, including two carrier battle groups, shrinking it below pre–World War I levels.
America’s nuclear deterrent force—the foundation of U.S. national security—would be undermined as we would likely lose one of the legs of the U.S. nuclear triad. As the U.S. nuclear deterrent shrinks and loses credibility, some of the 31 countries that enjoy protection under the U.S. nuclear umbrella may consider going nuclear out of growing fears about their vulnerability. This would be extremely destabilizing and could lead to costly conflicts.
These cuts, Brookes warns, would “harm our ability to deter, dissuade or deal with adversarial activities and shape world events in our favor.” This is particularly the case with Iran and North Korea as well as with China, which has increased its yearly defense budget by double digits for the past two decades and has shown itself to be increasingly assertive in Asia Pacific. With rising threats to America’s interests at home and abroad, now is not the time to reduce America’s military deterrence.
Finally, America needs to reform the real drivers of the debt crisis—the big three entitlements—instead of trying to balance the budget on the backs of the U.S. military and compromising U.S. national security.”
Source:
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/10/27/gutting-the-military/
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and video relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
I. Service chiefs warn $1T cut would be ‘catastrophic!’-Posted on The Washington Times-By Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times-On November 2, 2011:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/2/service-chiefs-warn-1t-cut-would-be-catastrophic/
II. Video: Obama's Private Army!-Posted on YouTube.com-By lawjared-On Mar 28, 2011:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPltiIJzz-Y&feature=player_embedded
III. Armed Services chairman: Obama is anti-military!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Shaun Waterman, The Washington Times-On September 12, 2011:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/12/armed-services-buck-mckeon-criticizes-obama/
IV. Obama Strategy Guts U.S. Armed Services!-Posted on WND.com-On July 23, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=324925
V. Push for Pentagon cuts tops Panetta’s agenda!-Posted on Idaho Stateswman-By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press-On April 27, 2011:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/04/27/v-print/1625708/push-for-pentagon-cuts-tops-panettas.html
VI. The Plot to Destroy the US Military!-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Daniel Greenfield-On March 21, 2011:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/34646
VII. Obama’s War Against the U.S. Military!-Posted on Human Events-By Buzz Patterson-On September 10, 2010:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38943
VIII. Revealed: How Obama was playing golf until 20 minutes before Navy SEALs began mission to take out Bin Laden!-Posted on Mail Online-By DANIEL BATES-On November 7, 2011:
IX. Congressman: Science ‘czar’ giving China U.S. technology!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On November 5, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=364197
X. Obama Administration Opposes FDR’s Prayer At WWII Memorial!-Posted on The Blaze-By Tiffany Gabbay-On November 4, 2011:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-administration-opposes-fdrs-prayer-at-wwii-memorial/
XI. WH Minimizing Beijing's Military Threat, Denying its Expansionist Intentions!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On July 23, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=324577
Note: The following eye opening article and/or blog post reveals a George Soros funded unincorporated association by the name of “Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)”, which was established in 1999 and consists of more than 50 private and public foundations that give a portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways: (a) by characterizing the United States as an evil, militaristic, oppressive nation that exploits vulverable populations all over the globe; (b) by accusing the U.S. of having provoked, through its unjust policies and actions, the terror attacks against it, and consequently casting those attacks as self-defensive measures taken in response to American transgressions; (c) by depicting America's military and legislative actions against terror as unjustified, extreme, and immoral-You Decide:
Funding the War Against the War on Terror!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By: John Perazzo –On October 6, 2006:
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2309
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts reveal that the president is an Alinskyite, so steeped in the ideology of the seminal community organizer that he became a top instructor in Alinskyite tactics for other up-and-coming fifth-column radicals, whose single, animating ambition is to overthrow the capitalist social order, which they claim to see as racist, corrupt, exploitative, imperialist, etc. He also frames national security as a distraction from his more important work socializing our economy and thus knows that as long as he is tepidly supportive of a military mission, even one that neither aims to achieve nor can possibly achieve victory over America’s enemies, conservatives will not only overlook the slights, but will anxiously commend him and help the New York Times take the lash to those who won’t-You Decide:
Alinsky Does Afghanistan! (Part I)-Posted on National Review Online- By Andrew C. McCarthy-On December 4, 2010:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228741/alinsky-does-afghanistan/andrew-c-mccarthy
Alinksy Does Afghanistan! (Part II)-Posted on National Review Online-By Andrew C. McCarthy-On June 23, 2011:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270378/alinksi-does-afghanistan-part-ii-andrew-c-mccarthy
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Veterans and members of our Armed Forces under attack!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/veterans-and-members-of-our-armed-forces-under-attack/
The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-military-pays-the-price-for-obama’s-agenda/
Will The New START Undermine Our Nuclear Security?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/will-the-new-start-undermine-our-nuclear-security/
Nuclear Summit Part of Obama Administration’s ‘Fantasy Foreign Policy!’
China Nuclear Deal With Pakistan!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/china-nuclear-deal-with-pakistan/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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Veteran Defenders of America’s Declaration To Restore The Constitutional Republic!
http://www.veterandefenders.org/
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Semper Fi!
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