Posted on 02/25/2014 11:17:31 AM PST by jazusamo
Full title: Col. Oliver North: 'There is no strategy' to the defense budget that reduces military to pre-WWII levels
VIDEO at link: Ollie North up to the 4:45 minute mark.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Colonel Oliver North joins us. Nice to see you, Colonel.
LT. COL. OLIVER NORTH, HOST, 'WAR STORIES' & FORMERLY U.S. MARINE CORPS: Good to be with you but not on a day like this.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. I was going to ask you two things. Two-part question. First, do we have to make cuts in the military? Is that smart and wise? And secondly, what do you think the proposed budget?
NORTH: I think the budget is terrible because it doesn't do the thing that defense budgets are supposed it to do and that is to support a national strategy. There is no strategy to this. Instead of deciding who our enemies and adversaries are and building a force capable of dealing with both, what they have done is they picked a number and then they backed into a budget. In other words, they backed into fore-structure based on the number instead of the other way around. Totally the opposite of what Ronald Reagan did.
President Reagan came to town, came to office promising to build a 600-ship Navy based on years and years of analysis that we needed a Navy that big to protect this country. He created millions of jobs, Greta. People forget that. It wasn't just a matter of putting more people in the military and paying us all better. It was a matter of building the capital equipment, ships, planes, trains, all this stuff that you need to make a military work. Reagan did it. They didn't. They are backing away from it.
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I beg to differ with the esteemed Col.Oliver North!There is a”Strategy”and that is to make The United States of America into another”Third World Nation”!!!Obongo(and his gang)are succeeding beyond their WILDEST DREAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other than supporting wars for the international corporations in the Middle east, the Bush administration followed the same strategy.
My holding is that the standing “administration” is irrelevant. The Big Money gets what it wants, regardless of the color of the face in the White House.
This has always been the way of things.
No argument here.
But the Constitution has long been disregarded by those profiting from government...perhaps even from the very beginning.
Then why not cut some parasites?
How is a militia going to defend against nuclear-tipped ICBMs?
“Other than supporting wars for the international corporations in the Middle east, the Bush administration followed the same strategy.
My holding is that the standing “administration” is irrelevant. The Big Money gets what it wants, regardless of the color of the face in the White House.
This has always been the way of things.”
Yeah man — it’s all about corporate greed, big oil, haliburton, fat cats and conspiracies involving the military industrial complex. Follow the money. Yeah - whatever
Bread and circuses: government checks and sports
these keep the peasants quiescent
The first lesson in Real Life after high school: money rules everything.
Nice answer.
Too bad it doesn’t answer the question I asked.
parasites = peace in society
thought that was an answer
If the Guard wasn't used, why is there a monument to them at Omaha Beach?
Never mind.
Thought you were responding to #26, not #25.
no ‘blem
“How is a militia going to defend against nuclear-tipped ICBMs?”
How are the police? How is the army? how is the navy going to defend against a nuclear-tipped ICBM?
Either the Constitutio9n is the supreme law of the land or it is not.
It’s an extremely dangerous World out there. Obama, and the Leftist’s currently holding our leash are doing their best to make it even more so.
Bringing down this country is their #1 goal. They might as well broadcast it across the World now as this action does.
A half-century of deterrence by a standing military force, funded one year at a time in keeping with constitutional limitations, has done the job so far.
Though The Won is doing his best to end that era.
Thanks for the ping, Jaz.
Obama is playing a big game of pick up sticks....we need to be ready when the stack collapses.
Most of us are too young to remember pre-WW2 USA, but us historians remember our military was in such shambles that they drilled back then with broom sticks rather than rifles.
Being attacked by enemies on our soil will be far more traumatic today than Pearl Harbor was then. It is a different world.
We need more Ukranian and Venezuelan refugees ......telling the fing truth.
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