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From: LindyBill4/7/2008 8:54:59 AM
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God I miss the Sovs!
By Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: GAO Blasts Weapons Budget, By Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, April 1, 2008; Page A01 washingtonpost.com

The Leviathan is in trouble: cost overruns, pressure to do better by the worn-out SysAdmin force, and impending loss of big war scenarios. Whenever advocates cite a percentage of GDP as a spending goal, they're shit out of scenarios--and luck. New Taiwanese leader looking to cut all sorts of deals with the mainland--including on security ("Look Ma! No hands on that trigger!). Iran's bomb looking like fait accompli Bush leaves to next prez because his own national security establishment is in near open revolt against him on the subject of additional war on his watch. And Kim looking more and more like a goner thanks to China's quiet but unmistakable tough love policies (Bush does get some credit there). In five years, the Leviathan could be bereft of all it's big war scenarios! Don't worry. The professional fear-mongers and fantasizing academics are hard at work getting ready to sell you on future "resource wars!" and "climate change wars!" But guess what? Not a lot of Joint Strike Fighters or Future Combat Systems or Seawolf subs found there, just more peacekeeping and infrastructural development and humanitarian ops.
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