{"id":25555,"date":"2012-01-13T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25555"},"modified":"2012-01-13T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T13:01:08","slug":"question-for-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25555","title":{"rendered":"Question For President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/newsone.com\/nation\/associatedpress8\/obama-military\/\">slash the size of the regular military<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which isn&#8217;t, in and of itself, a bad thing, provided that there&#8217;s been a rational assessment of this nation&#8217;s strategy, and the military will be sufficient to cover the real needs that we see occurring.<\/p>\n<p>Which is not a trivial process, and furthermore not something this nation has excelled at by habit.<\/p>\n<p>If that rational reassessment has taken place &#8211; as opposed to Obama seeking an illegitimate &#8220;peace dividend&#8221; &#8211; then fine.<\/p>\n<p>But one symptom that that assessment has <em>not <\/em>taken place is that while the Administration wants to slash the regular military, it wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=obama%20increase%20special%20forces&amp;source=web&amp;cd=10&amp;ved=0CF0QFjAJ&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsecurity.blogs.cnn.com%2F2012%2F01%2F05%2Fpentagons-new-strategy-is-about-much-more-than-cuts%2F&amp;ei=ZykQT_n2BcmhiQLfy43bDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFvV2mXqjsAPkDxSZscRf6_Dh0OJA&amp;sig2=I8ws5zR1691ElASaYFGcuw\">create more Special Forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where, precisely, does President Obama think Special Forces come from? \u00a0Does he think you just go out and grab some underemployed Georgetown graduates, give them berets and teach them how to fast-rope?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President wants to slash the size of the regular military&#8230; &#8230;which isn&#8217;t, in and of itself, a bad thing, provided that there&#8217;s been a rational assessment of this nation&#8217;s strategy, and the military will be sufficient to cover the real needs that we see occurring. Which is not a trivial process, and furthermore not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25557,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25555\/revisions\/25557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}