Why Not Gut Our Military and Let China Take Over as a Military Superpower

It is so easy to attack the military as the scape goat. It is apparent that Obama dislikes the military. Making apologies to the world of our military strength, repealing "Don't ask, Don't tell," and continuing to gut the military budget are strong reasons for Obama's contempt toward American exceptionalism. Obama rather allow China to be the military superpower over the USA. As Obama pressured Defense Secretary Gates to trim their budget, Gates had successfully found $100 billion in savings over the next five years by culling low-priority programs, thinning command structures and reducing overhead at the Pentagon. Only if the government could do the same thing.

(Washington Post) Under direction from the White House, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday announced that the Pentagon will cut projected spending by $78 billion over the next five years and shrink the size of the Army and Marine Corps. The changes mean that the military would see annual budget increases that barely exceed inflation in coming years and that its budget will effectively remain frozen in 2015 and 2016.

Gates said the cuts are a result of the "extreme fiscal duress" facing the country. But they are also an acknowledgment of a rapidly shifting political sentiment on Capitol Hill, where senior Democrats and Republicans alike have suggested in recent weeks that defense spending -- which accounts for a fifth of the federal budget -- is no longer a sacred cow.

Members of Congress have traditionally protected the defense budget with zeal, mindful of the economic benefits that the military brings to their districts. The new Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon of California, said he was "not happy" with the proposed cuts. "I will not stand idly by and watch the White House gut defense when Americans are deployed in harm's way," McKeon said.

Gates said the armed services had successfully carried out a directive in May to find $100 billion in savings over the next five years by culling low-priority programs, thinning command structures and reducing overhead at the Pentagon.

But in recent weeks, the White House privately told Gates to come up with the additional $78 billion in budget cuts over the next five years.