According To Liberal Groups In Washington, Now Is The Time To Gut The U.S. Military

Liberals See Opportunity For Big Cuts In Defense -- Washington Times

Push for troop, arms levels after Cold War.

The political left is pressing the White House and Congress to inflict a wave of Pentagon budget cuts not seen since the post-Cold War 1990s.

Liberals are citing the debt crisis and troop drawdowns from Iraq and Afghanistan to argue that now is the time for the Defense Department to shed people, missions and weapons after a decade of doubling arms spending after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The proposals, including one from the Center for America Progress, go well beyond President Obama’s call in April for $400 billion in defense cuts over 12 years. The center — run by John Podesta, who served as chief of staff to President Clinton — wants that much in reductions over the next three years and $1 trillion from what had been projected increases over the next decade.

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My Comment: For one of the few institutions that most Americans trust and respect .... calls for the U.S. military's quick demise ..... which $1 trillion in cuts over 3 years will do .... will not be heeded. What I do expect is a death by a thousand cuts, and that organizations like Center for America Progress and their recommendations will be used as a reference point by the White House to prove to independents that they are actually not cutting the budget that much .... while in reality they are.