GOP Hawks Sow Fear to Defend Military Spending

In comments which will one day be the centerpiece of a dictionary definition of “false dichotomy,” a number of Republican lawmakers are trying to kill off all talk of serious military spending cuts by insisting that the only alternative to this would be a military draft. As usual the rhetoric seems to be working and there appears to be little stomach left in the “supercommittee” for touching a military budget which is simultaneously the largest in the history of all mankind and, to hear lobbyists talk, “already cut to the bone.”

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Author: Jason Ditz

Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.