Sartre Batr: Defense Cuts and the Global Empire!

The fundamental distinction between a legitimate national defense, and an aggressive global garrison Imperium, escapes the political elites. The War Party's entrenched power and control of their egocentric internationalist foreign policy, endangers the country. Military expenditures have increased substantially this century with little regard to The Real Threat to National Security. The "War on Terror" is a tired excuse that keeps precision smart weapon dominance deployed, which shells suspect bombers with impunity. The technologists that develop and refine methods for more killing machinery, hardly earn the honor of defenders of the nation. The mere suggestion that armed services cutbacks are unpatriotic, or places the homeland in peril, is an invented euphemism to disguise the true nature of the coercive global empire, that has replaced our Constitutional Republic. The Economics of Sequestration points out that, "while many auditors would agree that the bloated expenditures within the military industrial complex has much to do with an adventurist foreign policy, the architects of sequestration refused to do a straight across the board reductions in all budgets." For a detailed report on sequestration, download the GovWin analysis. Defense hit hard, but small elements of major accounts have been shielded. Agencies working capital funds are largely protected. Fund accounts with economic implications are largely exempted. Senate and House member compensation is exempt. Contractors and government will take hits, but how hard? States, and other grant holders will be impacted. John Barnett presents the political difficulty of actually cutting the military budget in the Brookings Institution video, How Will Military Spending Cuts Affect Us Down the Road? You can always depend upon establishment mouthpieces to exculpate, and argue for the military money machine. However, when pressed, an alternative approach comes from Lawrence J Korb, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, served as an assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration, who proposes a small down payment on How to cut $100B from the defense budget.