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To: hmaly who wrote (166927)	4/8/2003 4:00:33 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1580227

Frankly, I don't think we need near as many troops as we once did. I agree, but a lot of cuts in size where made before Clinton. And then some of Clinton's cuts where ok to. I just think he went a bit far a bit to fast. Not way to far but far enough to cause some minor problems. Its not as much that we can't handle one medium to large situation like Iraq and one small like Afghanistan, but two medium large problems (like Iraq and Korea) would make things difficult. So if Bill cut down on troop size, but kept up the training and technological side, then we have been well served A lot of the technology side was momentum from earlier spending but Bill did nothing to harm it so no problem there. I think some of the training suffered but not badly and it already was largely turned around before Clinton left office so no killer problem there either. Some of the worst fears about the cuts where that more cuts would happen or that specific deficiencies would not be resolved by a bit more spending but most of what was feared didn't happen, even if at some point they might have come close to happening. Tim

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