Clinton opposes budget cuts - Reuters Clinton erects Chinese bogeyman for the MIC

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein

http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-opposes-budget-cuts-175808902.html

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Tuesday against budget cuts that could force an abrupt pullout of the US security presence in the Pacific at a time when China's power is rising.

The debate over reducing the US debt "does cast a pall over our ability to project the kind of security interests that are in America's interests," Clinton told officers at the National Defense University. "We need to have a responsible conversation about how we are going to prepare ourselves for the future and there are a lot of issues that are not in the headlines but are in the trendlines," she said.

"We are asserting our presence in the Pacific. We are a Pacific power. That means all elements of our national security team have to be present," the chief US diplomat said in a conversation with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

"And we can't be abruptly pulling back or pulling out when we know we face some long-term challenges about how we are going to cope with what the rise of China means," she said in the conversation moderated by CNN televisio

[Lasher]

1. We do need to have a responsible conversation about military spending.

But this ain't it. This 'Dough for the MIC' campaign has been going on all year.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. "reasonabel conversation" trans: Pay up or you'll be learning Mandarin and eating chow-mein.

[Lasher]

5. China has one refurbished Soviet carrier, not net operational.

They won't have even one nuclear powered carrier until a decade from now, if then.

We have eleven nuclear powered supercarriers. We are building two more and construction of a third is planned.

But the Asian menace is going to get us! More bucks to the Pentagon or we're all going to die!

[NightWatcher]

2. Whoa, bad move to pick them. I thought we were going after Aliens (I was pulling for zombies)

the faltering economy, but Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has come up with what has to be the oddest suggestion yet: Fake a looming invasion from outer space. In an interview with CNN, Krugman cited "a Twilight Zone episode in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time... we'd need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus." According to Krugman's tossed-off theory, we'd need a massive buildup to counter the apparently looming invasion. " inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months.
http://theweek.com/article/index/218349/could-an-alien-invasion-really-save-the-us-economy

Ronnie Reagan even talked in front of the UN how an alien attack would unify us all.


But I wanted to prep for the Zombie Apocalypse.

[indepat]

4. Read as eviscerate social security, Medicare, and Medicaid all you want, wish, or need, but cut nary...

a dime from the MIC 'cause we got a whole world on which to exert hegemony. :patriot: