Pro-war but anti-soldier? Can this get any worse?

Wow.  Michele McGinty posted a news story that makes me want to scream.  I seem to have understated the problem with Obama as an antiwar candidate.

Just to be clear, I think our nation is broke and we need to massively cut back on spending.  Given the cycle that we have seen in history between depression and world wars, we can’t afford to let a new FDR drag a bubble crash into a major years-long depression (note there are already signs of Europe responding as before).  This can arguably seen as a necessity of national defense.

So we should be cutting spending!  If only for the economics of it we should be pulling troops from not only Iraq and Afghanistan but also South Korea, Germany, and all other foreign locations.  We can’t afford our national defense strategy any more.  We need to shrink the military and settle for border protection.

But the Commander-in-Chief is increasing spending and stepping up our presence in a major hot zone: Afghanistan.

So where does he cut spending?  He cuts medical care for troops after they have been damaged by our foreign wars.  I don’t even know how to express how perverse this is.

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