Obama invokes change. Yet never has the dead hand of the past had a "reform" candidate so firmly by the windpipe. Is it possible to confront America's problems without talking about the arms budget? The Pentagon is spending more in inflation-adjusted terms than at any time since WW II. Obama wants to enlarge the army by 90,000, escalate the war in Afghanistan, prosecute a bigger, smarter war on terror. |
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