HuffPost – To Save The Republic, Republicans Must Slash Defense Spending

For those who believe we can still recover from our fiscal and economic death spiral, the time for hard choices has come. I’m talking to you, staunch Republican defenders of the military-industrial complex. I am begging you to rethink your priorities. What good will it do to preserve a military second to none if there is nothing left worth defending?

Through a century of wars, both cold and hot, America’s brave men and women in uniform successfully protected us from the external threats of fascism and communism. But the greatest threats facing America today don’t come from foreign enemies. They come from within.

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