You may retire from the Pentagon, but you never retire from shilling for its budget.
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen joined together today to angrily condemn Congress for not having yet exempted the military from the ongoing budget dispute.
This has been an ongoing Congressional battle, with the most hawkish demanding that the “sequestration” scheme, which might put the continued growth of the military’s budget, already a record in the history of all mankind, at risk of slowing or even stalling.
Though the Pentagon has explicitly avoided planning for sequestration, hawks have put together a “worst case” scenario that would put military spending at 2007 levels, which were enormous but are insufficient by their estimation. Even this was based on the assumption of savings from not occupying Afghanistan, something which is not seriously being considered by either party.
Gates and Mullen urged the “adults” in Congress to come together and save military spending growth by any means necessary. As an advance look at what this will mean, Sens. John McCain (R – AZ) and Lindsay Graham (R – SC) openly talked about hiking taxes as an “alternative” to allowing sequestration to effect the Pentagon.
How about we bring all the troops home and station them here navy included. Lay off half of them and mothball half the navy. If you haven't noticed there is something called oceans on our east and west coasts.Point to me just one country with a navy big enough to attack us from the sea. The air force today is what the navy used to be before the wright brothers got off the ground so let them fly air cover out to our territorial limits to defend the country and just buy instead of steal what we need from foreign countries. Take the savings and fill in these damn potholes and repair the falling down bridges and about to rupture dams. Then refund public education to where we are again a strong, well educated country.
What you say makes too much sense to ever be adopted as policy by any USA government — that would require a revolution. But such a revolution would be far more preferable to allowing the globalist agenda to fully play out — USA economic collapse, World War 3, and the rise of the New World Order government. The globalists, through many years of undue influence over our Congress and Presidents have turned this country into a Police State on the very brink of martial law, no doubt in anticipation of such a counter-revolution. In politics and economics, there is no such thing as mere coincidence.
Can't wait to see how the deficit hawks position themselves on this one.
The warlords doing what they do best.
I propose that both Mullen and Gates donate their entire salaries (including kickbacks) to the Pentagon project.
Ike was right about the Military Industrial Complex.