Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Just protecting his turf
The Obama candidate for Chairman of the JCS was giving testimony to Congress the other day and, in the grand tradition of his predecessors, issued a stern warning about cutting the Pentagon budget.
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, President Obama’s nominee to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned on Tuesday that proposed cuts in the military budget of up to $1 trillion would be “extraordinarily difficult and very high risk.” ...Perhaps in the next round of base realignment he can include for closure a large percentage of our Imperial overseas outposts.
General Dempsey, who is expected to be easily confirmed, tangled briefly at the hearing with Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who demanded to know what $800 billion to $1 trillion in military cuts would do to the readiness of the armed services over the next decade. General Dempsey replied that Mr. Obama had asked the Pentagon to cut only $400 billion, but “based on the difficulty of achieving the $400 billion cut, I believe 800 would be extraordinarily difficult and very high risk.”
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