Oh....sorry...they used to allow reading of the opinion page
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* Timothy D. Naegele wrote:
Of course, Mark Helprin is correct. It is demonstrably and dangerously wrong to reduce our military might one iota.
Some of the military leaders who support reductions are the same ones who lacked cojones when it came to the “surge” in Iraq,
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We have a professional politician as president, who never served in the U.S. military.
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Helprin is right and Obama is wrong: the military must never wait for the economy. As I have written: “America’s economic and military strength go hand in hand. Both are indispensable ingredients of our great nation’s future strength.
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Lastly, Helprin’s words are prophetic: “a nation that has lost the unapologetic drive to defend itself cannot escape the consequences no matter how deft its self-deceptions or the extent to which, in contradiction of history and fact, error is ratified by common belief.”