GOP voted to cut millions from embassy security funds

UncleBuck said:

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/250237-gop-embassy-security-cuts-draw-democrats-scrutiny

and then they cry about it. so typical.
Republicans have sought to cut hundreds of millions of dollars slated for security at U.S. embassies and consulates since gaining control of the House in 2011.


Democrats are scrutinizing the GOP proposals in the wake of attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East, one of which saw Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans murdered.


“In these tight budget times, the committee has had to make some tough choices to prioritize funding.”

chilling.

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Doer said:

Well, is it funding or it is waste? They say one man's worse problems are another man's highest hopes.

Do we need all these State Dept efforts where giant amounts are wasted on International Programs for Arts, Indigenous Cultures, and other soft Kum-by-Ya stuff? And yet the DEMS say the world hates us.

So we waste money because it is the Dems in charge for the most part, and then when, the ones that don't count, the PUBS, try to shift spending into some other harder, more purposeful causes they are excoriated as penny pinchers.

And the next day they are excoriated for some other trumped up, BS. That's why the PUBS don't count and never have, since Lincoln. The Press is against them.

The DEMS run this show and they have for at least a century. Very handy politicians but foreign policy no-nothings, generally.

The guy that nuked Japan was a DEM and now we know that was totally un-necessary and began the Cold War.

The DEMS say the PUBS fuck up, but it is just not so. The PUBS take the blame and are so useless, that is all they seem to be for...the blame.

Take the high road? OK. Take the blame.

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cannabineer said:

I do not at all agree with the bolded. The simple existence of the Bomb meant the Cold War was coming. Klaus Fuchs would have seen to that in the alternative case.
As for totally unnecessary, 500 thousand to a million US casualties avoided is excellent cause imo. cn

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UncleBuck said:

lo and behold, the benghazi hounds quit their howling and promptly defend a massive defunding and underfunding for embassy security.

gee, no transparent at all.

hillary at 69% has them shitting their tighty whiteys.

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Doer said:

Yes, I know, that's how I was raised to think. It is complicated, but the military history is becoming declassified....these various time/year windows are moving forward.

I don't think that really, any more. It seems the Russians had a noose building on Japan. IAC, China was in a struggle with the Maoist and Chang civil war breaking out.

We could have starved them and nuked a north island. But, the Russians....IAC, I agree, the Cold War began very coldy, indeed, brought to us by the DEMS.

I think it is good to look at the other side of this.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/opinions/view/was-the-dropping-of-the-atomic-bombs-necessary
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...Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not major strategic cities that could have made a significant impact on Japanese military power. At the time of the atomic bombing, U.S. troops had not landed on the Japanese mainland yet. Bombing these two cities would not have brought the U.S. any significant military advantage for its troops. Instead, contrary to bringing an abrupt end to the war, the atomic bombings could have been exploited by the Japanese military to exalt the Japanese population to yield even more stubborn armed resistance, no doubt ending in the loss of more human lives for both sides.
Maybe this bought time, but it was to punish the Japanese and warn the Soviet.

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Harrekin said:

Is that Obama??

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