Didn’t take long for Obama’s Generals to lower standards. Question is when will Dempsey inform Americas mothers and fathers that their daughters have to register for a potential draft.
I've been listening to PBS's Vago Muradian on This Week in Defense talking to various players from the Pentagon and the Congress (he interviewed, among others, a Texas GOP ranker on House Armed Services this weekend). I think Muradian himself is a "defense Democrat" of the old school, liberal on social issues but understands why we need a DoD.
(If that's the case, then his show may represent an attempt by PBS's Communists to "capture" defense issues.)
After listening to these guys frame up the issues, my suspicion is not at all allayed, that Obama wants to use the "cliff" to crush DoD's budget, create a new, low baseline, eliminate much of the arsenal through failure to maintain, and thoroughly wreck the U.S. military, out of his splenetic, Turd-World-postcolonialist rage-and-hate, basically leaving the U.S. with a military that will be challenged by numbers of other players and therefore constantly at war somewhere, without the resources to prevail, in a kind of anti-American "long revenge".