Thursday, May 24, 2012

Conflict Between Military Professionals and Conservative Republicans?

In case you missed it, there's a good report in today's PostPartisan (Washington Post on line) calling attention to a number of issues where Republican positions cause problems for the military. Here is a link to the Post article. The article itself has a link to to an article by Heather Hurlburt in Democracy Arsenal. Hurlburt lists five issue: 1. Law of the Sea (I worked on this treaty thirty years ago - the Navy has always supported it); 2. Alternative energy; 3. Who jails terror suspects (professional military officers don't want to be jailers); 4. Iran (not a war the military wants); 5. Pentagon Budget (GOP wants some weapons the pentagon doesn't want).

I can think of other issues - GOP cares nothing for the troops, but a lot for contractors, for example.

As Memorial Day approaches, we should focus on the troops.

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