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In fact, deficit cutting is secondary. Key is protecting corporate handouts and Bush era tax cuts, as well as expanding them for business and upper-bracket earners.
Obama supports making ordinary Americans and seniors bear the burden so corporations and rich folks are spared. As usual, he talks tough, then caves, no matter the harm and injustice caused.
America's Permanent War Agenda
In inflation adjusted dollars, annual defense spending more than doubled under George Bush. They've kept rising under Obama despite growing budget cutting pressures, at a time America's national debt burden is much higher than acknowledged.
It hardly matters, given the military/industrial complex's power to demand what it wants with Obama in tow to provide it. He also advanced America's imperium destructively across North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia to Russia's borders.
After a decade, Afghanistan is now America's longest war. No end of conflict is in sight. Withdrawing US forces from Iraq concealed their regional repositioning and continued presence on major bases America will keep operating.
In fact, increased force levels are planned on one or more Libyan bases, larger contingents in Kuwait, expanded ties with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman, and a greater overall regional footprint to establish an enhanced "security architecture" to integrate air, ground, and naval units for future combat missions.
Throughout 2011, Obama bears direct responsibility for committing one of history's greatest crimes against Libya. NATO's killing machine under US direction dispatched truth by calling naked aggression against a nonbelligerent country the responsibility to protect.
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