Special Operations to Fuel Pentagon Growth Going Forward
Deputy Defense Secretary Insists Special Operations Will Continue to Grow
In a recent speech at Duke University, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter praised President Obama for ensuring that the budget problems didn’t hinder the Pentagon’s continued spending.
“Obama made sure that we didn’t eat our seed corn,” Carter insisted, adding that the special operations forces budget would continue to grow even if the wars end at some point in the future.
Carter railed against proposed military cuts, insisting that it was “idiotic” and that the whole point of sequestration was to force Congress to never allow it to happen, because of course military spending cuts are unthinkable.
Of course that’s just one of the many avenues of growth the Pentagon has staked out, with officials only a week ago announcing a plan to totally revamp the DIA as a massive intelligence agency capable of rivaling the CIA worldwide.
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Rich
December 10th, 2012 at 5:04 am
So much for the "fiscal cliff"!
Randolph
December 10th, 2012 at 11:25 am
Wow, $639 billion worth of 'seed corn'.
"Idiotic" is spending more than the rest of the world combined on 'defense'. These are the people who once famously said that they 'had to destroy the village in order to save it'. Now, through their insatiable demands for money, they apparently are going to destroy America in order to defend it.
davidgrayling
December 10th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
An excellent comment, Randolph. People who think 'war' are not rational. Their tiny minds can only see bombs dropping and millions of deaths and oceans of blood.
Their insanity is catching. It pulls in the greedy and the gullible.
But when the nukes begin to fall, war will come to an end. And so will our world.
wthePoster
December 10th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Well, if the Pres and VP I'd sworn to serve ran around browbeating the CIA to come up with bogus grounds for getting me sent to war, I'd want my own intelligence agency, too. But then, I'd also want lots of nice things too, and a sure way to avoid getting hurt.
The Pentagon is our frankenstein monster.