Logic of Osama

Send more troops overseas, and cut their funds. Yeah, that'll work!
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Obama Deploys Troops and Cuts Their Funding

By John R. Guardiano on 10.18.11 @ 9:32AM

Last week, at FrumForum, I wrote that ground forces must remain a defense priority. And, as if to prove my point, President Obama has announced that he is dispatching 100 American soldiers to Uganda, south Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is to help government forces there combat the Lord's Resistance Army.

Now, 100 soldiers constitute a small contingent, indeed; and their mission is narrowly tailored to "providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces... They will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense," wrote Obama in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

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Our ground forces, moreover, have suffered some of the worst cuts, including elimination of all eight combat vehicle types in the Army's Future Combat Systems modernization. The Army, consequently, hasn't built a new combat vehicle type since the Cold War. But as the former commandant of the Army War College, retired General Maj. Robert H. Scales, Jr., observes:

A soldier fighting from a vehicle of any sort increases his chance of survival by about an order of magnitude... Unfortunately Cold War armored materiel is optimized for wars on a European, not an irregular battlefield.

In short, we have a president who is creating new overseas deployments for our soldiers, even as he cuts the very funding needed to equip and empower our forward deployed troops. This, in a word, is incongruent and incoherent. America deserves better and so, too, do our troops.

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Osama cares about the American serviceman the way a bad chess player cares about his pawns.

If  he allows the military to vote, he's a lame duck. I'll bet lots of military ballots get "lost" next year.