Imagine a Campaign that Called for Slashing Military Spending by 75%

[unhappycamper]

Imagine a Campaign that Called for Slashing Military Spending by 75%
by Dave Lindorff
Saturday, December 15, 2007

While the Democratic and Republican candidates for president blather on about non-issues like who will be meaner to immigrants, who will use the most water on torture victims, who wanted to be president at the youngest age, who’s the best Christian and other such nonsense, and while Congress and the president dance their meaningless dance of pretend conflict, let’s for a moment ponder something more momentous.

What if the US just packed up and left Iraq and Afghanistan, and brought the troops all home, shut down the 750-odd overseas bases we operate around the globe, and slashed our military budget by 75 percent?

That would be an instant savings of roughly $365 billion per year.

Now, the first thing we need to do is address the criticism that such an action would be abandoning the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, whose countries we have been systematically destroying for the last four to six years.

Okay. I agree we have an obligation here. So let’s allocate say $50 billion in annual aid to those two countries, to be funneled through international aid organizations, from the U.N. to CARE and the Red Cross/Red Crescent.


Rest of article at: http://wakeupcall-vfp.blogspot.com/2007/12/imagine-campaign-that-called-for.html

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. I would love that! Use our hard-earned tax dollars for us! Stop the corporate feeding trough! nt

[RC]

2. All of those that tried to implement this would have life spans measured in months.

And the drive to do this would have an even shorter life span.