Friday, January 27, 2012

Video: Military budget suffers cutbacks



>> a couple of weeks ago the size of the army would be brought down to 500,000. he said i would like to get it down to 490. that's where he is proposing it will go. i'm not convinced that he still doesn't want it to go further smaller.

>> when we cut 100,000 troops out of the army, how do you get the experience back overnight. john mccane said this is the greate greate greatest peril since the carter administration .

>> it's before the overreliance on the guard and reserve. we have to go there to get the people because we don't have enough on active duty. now we are making it absolutely guaranteed that if we go to war, we'll have to call on the guard.

>> the number of drones will increase. we know people believe that's a more controversial way of going to war using droe ining drones as oppose d to boots on the ground .

>> you're absolutely right. we had this conversation earlier. if you have lots of aircraft carriers and special operation forces , that means you can fight an enormous war and fight individual soldiers and terrorists which can't do a whole lot.

>> we know the drones have been effective, especially when looking at the territory in afghanistan that's no-man's land. it's key to where the taliban and other al qaeda have been hiding.

>> this administration has done a masterful job of eliminating large swaths of terrorists from pakistan and afghanistan and now in africa as well. if we're going to fight a smaller war, if we're going to be threatened in some other way by terrorists, we're not going to have the resources.

>> is this the natural way, when looking at budgets and wars that have not been paid for, the list goes on and on, isn't this the natural way, the progression as we look at the country in where we are?

>> yes. it's also the way to save money. i think that's the thing that's really driving in in the end, if you cancel programs, you're going to save money in the out years. you want to save money today, cancel the number of people.

>> it's jeopardizing the nation's security?

>> i believe it does. i'm like to see the marine corps larger than it is. it's much too low.

>> thank you very much.

Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/newsnation/46151541/

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