Posted on 03/29/2017 11:56:32 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Academics are upset that they don’t get as many chances as they would like to contribute to U. S. foreign policy. Maybe that's a good thing.
On the one hand, most of them opposed the Iraq War, at least after the fact, Benjamin H. Friedman and Justin Logan show in an essay which appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Strategic Studies Quarterly.
On the other, "A 2004-2005 survey of international relations scholars asked, 'Do you think that the United States should increase its spending on national defense, keep it about the same, or cut it back?' Just short of half--49 percent--answered, 'Cut,' while 41 percent chose, 'Keep same.' Only 10 percent answered, 'Increase.'"
"When the researchers asked the question again in 2008-2009, 64 percent said, 'Cut' and 30 percent chose, 'Keep the same'; this time, only 6 percent called for an increase."
Logan is the former director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. Friedman, a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at Cato, also serves as an adjunct lecturer at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.
He also takes a rather jaundiced view of U. S. military alliances. At a panel discussion at Cato on March 21, 2017, Friedman questioned whether the European Union would be more popular if NATO did not exist.
The question seems to presume that the EU has some merit in and of itself. Last year, Great Britain decided that it didn’t.
JMHo
There is plenty of fat ... and waste that could be cut.
Not to mention idiotic missions that never end.
We could have a strong and effective military and spend far less money by spending it more wisely.
Better idea to cut funding of Marxist Indoctrination Centers called Universities.
I’m sure President Trump has just been waiting for academia to weigh in on the new military budget.
Sigh.
Maybe we should just get rid of the Dept. of Ed. and Sallie Mae.
Then, they could squeal that much louder.
This is why these so called “perfesers” are working so hard to overthrow the current administration. After all, everybody knows dat it’s “da enviomen” and not ISIS that is “the greatest threat to our national security”.
Well, those impotent, powerless, applied idiot professors can “want” in one hand and blow their nose into the other and see which fills the fastest.
Slash the Welfare State. Gut the Regulatory State. The Constitution authorizes neither of these.
THEN, come back and talk about the Constitutionally mandated military.
Speaking of slashing bloatation....
Leftist professors need to have their pensions slashed.
All these lazy asshats do is sit on their butts and let their grad students do all of the work on silly projects that also need slashing.
Spoiled* not applied!! Autocorrect is such a joke!
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