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Sachs' reference to our current state of "peacetime" is a slap in the face of every brave serviceman and -woman deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the story's illustration, a man doesn't want to hear that military spending is up. Why should it be? It's not like there...
...certain amount of trust in government is necessary to try to solve difficult problems--and difficult problems are pretty much what we'll be looking at for the foreseeable future: the national debt; the rising costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ability to solve these problems means asking people to make a sacrifice, which requires a spirit of compromise and bipartisanship. Only then will trust in government begin to rise, and only then will voters begin to respond. What I can't agree with is the notion, expressed by the Tea Partyers...
...equal pay for women, launched innovative education reforms, expanded health-care to four million children, begun the decommissioning of Guantanamo Bay and ending of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and put the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. Iraq is stable, and the troops will be on their way home, and additionally, Afghanistan has become the rightful focus of the U.S. military. I could...
...Gates also criticized NATO for buying the wrong weapons for the wrong war - a criticism he has consistently directed at the U.S. military as well during his three-year tenure, chiding it for buying wonder weapons for hypothetical wars while soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq lack armor and spy drones. "Despite the need to spend more on vital equipment for ongoing missions, the alliance has been unwilling to fundamentally change how it sets priorities and allocates resources," Gates said. He praised Denmark for giving up its submarine fleet - who knew? - in order to double the size of its expeditionary...
...That is classic Jody Freeman,” Lazarus said. “While the economy was cratering, while there’s a war in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Freeman was able to make the biggest push in higher emissions standards this country has ever seen...