Yes you are, Mr. Taxpayer. Both Obama's budget request and the numbers that the GOP congress is throwing around are using the Overseas Contingency Operations money as a way to get around the sequester on defense spending in the FY 2016 budget.
Give it up. Make a mountain out of DoD expenditures while completely neglecting the unceasing and escalating costs of retirements, entitlements, and social programs why don’t you?
Further, to infuse the argument of the author with some perceived acceptance by those big three with NeoConservatism is ludicrous in my opinion.
The author isn’t a liberal who has been mugged by reality (my definition of a NeoCon). The use of the term falsely equates that movement with conservatism. To further delve back into reinterpreted history (arguments commonly used by liberals) about Iran of yesterday, the CIA et al and associate it with nearly every Mideast problem today is obfuscation, frankly. These peoples’ own bibles written centuries before the OSS and CIA’s inception tell the real influences.
He pondered how America forgot that it is ‘America’. Not how Necon influence is such a big thing at the “papers of note.”