US Endless-War Budget Rolls On

US Endless-War Budget Rolls On

from Consortiumnews.com

While cutting domestic spending, President Obama has spared the military budget from significant cuts, writes Sherwood Ross. February 23, 2011

 

Editor’s Note: Another part of Ronald Reagan’s insidious legacy is that any politician or pundit who dares to question excessive U.S. military spending can expect to be denounced as “soft” on whomever the enemy du jour is.

To protect themselves from such attacks, Democrats have typically lined up behind the Pentagon’s budget almost as slavishly as Republicans have, a pattern that is continuing in the Obama administration, as Sherwood Ross notes in this guest essay:

Under President Barack Obama's new budget for fiscal year 2012, the Great American War Machine just rolls on and on.