Quote Originally Posted by kit View Post
The sad fact is that the current war isn't a higher priority to this administration than is social spending. Consequently, DOD suffers and so does the war. It can't help but make one wonder just how commited this administration is to victory. If it's not enough to even curtail domestic spending to see to it that DOD has what it needs to win, then what's the point of fighting?
I like Tom Friedman's argument. *IF* this war (and GWOT) is a struggle of as great importance to the nation as WWII, and defeat will mean terrible things for our nation, then why on earth has the administration refused to treat it as such in anything but rhetoric over the last six years? We're not organizing the government to wage this kind of conflict, we're not willing to raise taxes (but willing to run debt and cut the DoD budget), we're not significantly expanding the military/USAID/state, and we're not even asking people to serve at a national level. And this is a WWII level conflict?

Our budgeting and bureaucratic priorities speak much louder as to the importance of this war than the words coming from DC.