{"id":57562,"date":"2015-01-09T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57562"},"modified":"2015-01-09T09:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:18:55","slug":"pentagon-requests-20-reduction-in-war-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57562","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon requests 20% reduction in war funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bloomberg News<\/a> says that the Department of Defense is asking for 20% less in funding for our adventures worldwide, ostensibly because our presence in Afghanistan will be reduced;<\/p>\n

While the decline in war funding largely reflects the continued withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan \u2014 from the 10,600 now there to half that planned by year-end \u2014 it remains enough to draw questions about why the Defense Department shouldn’t pay to fight wars as part of its basic mission.<\/p>\n

“The continuing drawdown in Afghanistan is not having a proportionate effect on” the war budget because it’s “being used for a lot of things other than Afghanistan,” said Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst with the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington.<\/p>\n

“It’s a budgetary shell game for getting around” the caps imposed by the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration, Harrison said in an email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know what would really reduce our funding for wars around the world? If we fought our wars to a successful conclusion, well, that would help immensely. It would probably cost less if we went to war with an eye on killing the enemy and breaking his stuff rather than fighting a conflict within the parameters of some ideal about being the nicest army on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

We should probably get over the thing that by unilaterally declaring victory before the war is won, the war has ended. Iraq should be a glaring example of that fallacy, but apparently, it’s not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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