Obama's Peace Dividend

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Listening to President Obama unveil his new defense strategy yesterday, I thought, here we go again. Having basically written off the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Obama is falling prey to a temptation several of his predecessors found irresistible:  Cut defense expenditures. Shrink the military. And hope the rest of the world will neither notice nor take advantage of our weakness. We shouldn’t kid ourselves.  We can walk away from conflicts, but that doesn’t mean they are over.  We can hollow out our military but that doesn’t mean that others won’t see it as an invitation to pursue their interests -- at our expense. In the past, our so-called “peace dividends” have proven illusory.  And we paid not just in national treasure but lives.  We can’t afford to do that again.

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