Revive the Republican Way of War

Financial Times ^ | 05/09/07 | Michael Lind

[Paul Ross]

I can list a number of things wrong with how both Eisenhower and Nixon dealt with the enemy

Yeah, the analogies don't quite hold...particularly with Kissinger who is pretty similar in many ways to Bush.

But certain defects in the Bush policies...collectively...are undermining even our capacity to pursue the more Reaganesque approach. He has been systemmatically underfunding R&D. Even less than Xlinton. He has been systematically defunding the Navy and Air Force...pretty much only band-aiding what Xlinton did to the services. We will wind up with a token F-22 force...and 35 year old F-15s. And NO F-14s at all. And a drastically overstretched Navy with a real gap in the ability to take a hit.

And especially frightening is the unrealistic smugness manifested about sending high technology abroad....and expecting it to not wind up in the Chicioms hands. As the ITT case shows...where they gave the Chicoms the crown jewels of American combat advantage...our night vision technology...

This was done on W's watch. ITT made the "outsourcing" deal with China in March 2001...and finished transferring the tech by August of that year...

CFIUS...under Bush...had to have approved the outsourcing to the phony manufacturing site in Singapore...and done so with essentially NO INVESTIGATION.

[rmlew]

Eisenhower was an idiot.
Not only did he fail to roll back Communism ANYWHERE, but his continuation of FDR Third Wroldist policies hurt us.
In his zeal to destroy the British and French Empires, he helped birth new communist regimes. He also helped empower the Arab Nationalist and later Islamist movements by stabbing England, France and Israel in the Back in the Suez Crisis.

[MinnesotaLibertarian]

That candidate is Chuck Hagel, if he ever get into the race.