You should be used to this by now... In the bait and switch world that is DC, the hocus pocus game of budget cuts has begun. Rather than take the paring knife to programs that waste money or do nothing, the Obama Administration has counted the money that they SHOULD NOT spend if we withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan as deficit savings....
No, it's not necessarily false. If we aren't there, the defense budget - which has gotten pretty hefty in the past decade - will drop. But, WILL we be out totally? How about Pakistan? Somewhere else? What if we finally invade Canada? It could happen, but there are plenty of other cuts available that are spinning out of control. It's time Washington stopped taking the easy way out, and make the tough decisions we paid them to do... Yeah, I just laughed too.
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