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low blow. A second salvo is making


its way through Washing- ton’s “think tanks” and elite soirees. For more than a month, while Gates has been begging Congress to act on this year’s $33 bil- lion war supplemental, the Sustainable Defense Task Force quietly has been circulating a report, titled “Debt, Deficits, & Defense: A Way Forward,” to the same congressional offices. The 56-page document lays the groundwork for drastic cuts in U.S. military spend- ing -- starting next year. The 14-member, alleg-


edly nonpartisan task force was convened last year at the direction of Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass., Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., and Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D- Ore. Its mandate was to “explore possible defense budget contributions to deficit reduction efforts that would not compromise the essential security of the United States.” No one from the so-called


“mainstream media” has in- quired about which, if any, members of the Obama administration have read the report. They should. The document not only proffers an entirely new definition of the word “con- tribution” but also provides a blueprint for unilateral disarmament in the midst of a war and a global spike in the development and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction. Though few would ar-


gue with the task force’s conclusions that better acquisition, contracting and auditing at the Penta- gon are essential to saving billions, the authors’ base line budget urges the U.S. to reduce military spending by nearly a trillion dollars over the course of the next decade by making dras- tic cuts in ships, aircraft, weapons systems and mili- tary personnel. The prem- ise for making such major strategic and conventional force structure cuts is na- ive and dangerous. For example, in Section


3 of the report, labeled “Realistic Goals, Sustain- able Strategy,” the authors preface their proposed cuts by baldly claiming, “In the


conventional realm, the United States today faces no global threat remotely comparable to that once posed by the Soviet Union and its allies.” Somehow they seem to have missed a salient fact: More Ameri- cans have been killed by radical Islamists than by the entire Soviet nuclear arsenal. Section 7, “A Strategy


of Restraint Would Allow Even Greater Savings,” posits that billions more can be saved by our adopt- ing a “strategy of restraint -- one that reacts to danger rather than going out in search of it.” For those of us who once learned what happened at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, or who vividly recall planes flying into buildings on Sept. 11, 2001, those words are highly offensive. But at the Obama White House -- where it’s blame America first and apologize globally -- they undoubtedly will get a high-five.


Oliver North is the host of


“War Stories” on Fox News Channel, the founder and honorary chairman of Free- dom Alliance, and the au- thor of “American Heroes.”


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