DOD Buzz Dumbs Down Defense Debate
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Colin Clark misses the mark in his latest piece for DOD Buzz. Even the title, “GOP To Tea Party: Don’t Cut Defense,” is wrong.
The opening sentence is no better. Indeed, it makes two mistakes. “With one wary eye on the Tea Party movement and its potentially isolationist policies,” Clark writes, “representatives of GOP think tanks sent a simple message today: don’t cut Pentagon weapons systems in the belief that the American homeland can be protected without a military that can fight and project power around the globe.”
Clark was covering a briefing on the Hill by The Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and The Foreign Policy Initiative. All three institutions embrace conservative values, but they are determinedly nonpartisan. None of the three is affiliated with the Republican Party. (more…)