The Pentagon plans to retire one of the U.S. Navy’s 12 aircraft carriers and buy fewer amphibious landing ships for the Marine Corps as part of $60 billion in proposed cuts over the next six years, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing Congressional and military officials.
The proposed reductions, the details of which are still being fine-tuned and would require Congressional approval, result from White House orders to all federal agencies to cut their spending requests for the 2006 fiscal year budgets, which will be submitted to lawmakers early next year.
Imagine all the howls if Senator Kerry had propsed such cuts three months ago.
We’re at war!
Terror, terror, terror!
Yada, yada, yada.
Only Nixon could go to China, only Clinton could reform Welfare and only Bush could do anything remotely looking like reducing military spending.