Pentagon Plans Steps to Reduce Budget and Jobs
Gates continues to impress me as a leader who can balance Republican and Democratic concerns, like David Brooks in journalism. In dealing with issues of the military budget, he faces one of the fiercest topics in the nation. Not that it gets the headlines, but behind the scenes there are obviously powerful interests ready to defend themselves. Our economy is supported significantly by military spending, but I would argue that we need to slowly but surely change that. The world is almost completely different now than it was during the Cold War when the whole military-industrial complex grew (technically, started during WWII). But now the U.S. faces much different challenges and we've got to address those (energy/environment, education, infrastructure, etc.). How about also putting a good portion of the money saved into the state department? I think everyone would prefer to prevent the death and destruction caused by the use of our multi-billion-dollar weapons that would result from a conflict with another major power.
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