{"id":23688,"date":"2011-06-02T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23688"},"modified":"2011-06-02T12:57:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:57:51","slug":"gates-finally-finds-his-nads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23688","title":{"rendered":"Gates finally finds his ‘nads"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Frank Gaffney at Big Peace<\/a>, outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates has finally found his testicles to stand up to the draconian cuts that the Obama Administration has in store for the Pentagon;<\/p>\n

Secretary Gates has particularly warned against a \u201chollowing out\u201d of the military, a not-so-implicit criticism of the $400 billion Mr. Obama has announced that he intends to cut from Pentagon accounts. This reduction would come on top of the roughly $178 billion already being excised by the Gates team.<\/p>\n

In so doing, Mr. Gates recalls the mistake made twice during my decades in this town \u2013 first by Presidents Ford and Carter, then by Presidents Bush \u201841 and Clinton: Yielding to the ever-present-temptation to meet contemporary budgetary exigencies by cutting the nation\u2019s investment in its armed forces, leaving them without the modern equipment, realistic training, adequately sized forces, up-to-date facilities and development of the future technologies needed to deter and, if deterrence fails, to prevail in tomorrow\u2019s wars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being a liberal means never learning from your mistakes mostly because they can blame conservatives saddled with fixing their mistakes with a complicit media.<\/p>\n

Gaffney closes out his piece with;<\/p>\n

Mr. Gates\u2019 warnings about the Obama agenda are indeed welcome. One can only wish he had done less to enable it to date, and pray that he does not make matters worse still before leaving office four weeks from now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s my main complaint about Gates. He knows that once he green lighted defense cuts, the Left would take that as permission to slash and burn DoD like the Clintons did for eight years to fund their jackassery. There certainly is waste that can be cut from defense but it requires a scalpel, not a hatchet and machete. <\/p>\n

And I don’t see anyone calling for $400 billion cuts to EPA or the Commerce Department. Or even $400 billion in cuts to whole rest of the government. Any other agency slowing down on their recruiting efforts or their R&D plans? Why is Defense saddled with balancing the entire budget…well, until the next time we’re inevitably attacked.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Flopping Aces<\/a> for pointing me in the direction to Gaffney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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