{"id":277882,"date":"2010-02-04T17:31:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/nyt-talk-softly-ditch-anachronistic-unproven-cold-war-era-stick-39065\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:31:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:31:40","slug":"the-nyt-talk-softly-and-ditch-that-anachronistic-unproven-cold-war-era-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277882","title":{"rendered":"The NYT: Talk Softly and Ditch that Anachronistic, Unproven, Cold War-Era Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 02.04.10 11:45 AM posted by Mackenzie Eaglen<\/p>\n

\n<imgsrc="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pentagon_081204.jpg" alt="Pentagon (Photo by Newscom)" \/><\/p>The Pentagon\u0092s major strategy known as the Quadrennial Defense Review was released this week.*It immediately drew praise from the New York Times<\/i>\u0092 editorial titled <atitle="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/opinion\/04thur1.html?th&emc=th" href="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/opinion\/04thur1.html?th&emc=th">\u0093The Defense Budget\u0094 for cutting weapons programs\u0097although not nearly enough\u0097and for acknowledging a decline by choice regarding the role of the United States in the world.<\/p>\n

The editorial singles out the cancellation of the C-17 transport plane, the Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine, and the F-22 fifth-generation fighter for applause, and dismisses them as \u0093anachronistic and unnecessary.\u0094 *The article\u0092s stock-in-trade is a litany of recycled sound bites about \u0093still unproven\u0094 missile defense, \u0093cold war relic\u0094 weapons, how the Pentagon must make \u0093tough choices,\u0094 and how America cannot afford to write the Pentagon \u0093a blank check.\u0094<spanid="more-25667"><\/span><\/p>\n

Worse, still, the NYT celebrates the Pentagon\u0092s acknowledgment that \u0093while the United States remains the world\u0092s leading military power, it is much more dependent on allies to help maintain international stability.\u0094<\/p>\n

Of course, the U.S. carries a disproportionate share of the military burden of its alliances and international missions because it is singularly committed to defending liberty and responding to humanitarian need abroad. *The recent response to the earthquake in Haiti, which was predominantly funded and manned by the U.S., is one example.* Indeed, over 20,000 U.S. troops and 41 C-17s (among other platforms) are being used in Haiti relief operations.* But you wouldn\u0092t know it listening to President Obama dismissing these essential, unique airplanes as \u0093pure waste\u0094 on Monday.<\/p>\n

This is true even beyond our geographic neighborhood, as with our efforts to protect Muslims from genocide in the Balkans during the 1990s. *As House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member, Rep. Howard \u0093Buck\u0094 McKeon (R-CA), said at Heritage earlier toady, no fewer than 30 countries around the world rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella for their core security.<\/p>\n

The Obama Administration\u0092s policy of engagement and negotiations has so far failed to curtail Iranian or North Korean nuclear programs, or to strengthen the protection of human rights in China or Iran. If the U.S. has indeed decided to become \u0093more dependent\u0094 on the international system and less dependent on our military might to underpin global stability, it is trading in a robust instrument of global liberty for a weaker one.* *Just as <atitle="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/NationalSecurity\/sr0052.cfm" href="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/NationalSecurity\/sr0052.cfm">no country can be expected to provide security and pursue its interests solely through the use of military power, no country can expect to be taken seriously during high-stakes negotiations without the potential threat of military force to back up its word. *Not only do most of our allies lack the military resources to defend nations from aggression or to respond effectively to crises, but many international alliances and institutions are further constrained because they are dominated by the hostile powers they are intended to restrain.<\/p>\n

In this international environment, the U.S. should do all it can to maintain a broad spectrum of core defense capabilities that can be called upon at any time to respond to any threat or challenge. For example, the U.S. should invest in more modern, fifth-generation stealth fighters\u0097which cannot by any reasonable accounting be called anachronistic relics\u0097and begin developing a sixth-generation aircraft to maintain our military advantage and deterrent. *Russia just unveiled its stealth fighter jet, the Sukhoi T-50, late last month, and numerous other countries are challenging our dominance of the skies.<\/p>\n

As the Heritage Foundation has pointed out this week, it is not a cause for celebration, but a cause for consternation, that <atitle="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/NationalSecurity\/wm2792.cfm" href="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/NationalSecurity\/wm2792.cfm">the military has been handed an insufficient budget that will force it to make \u0093tough choices\u0094 that reduce our capabilities and make America increasingly vulnerable. *Theodore Roosevelt understood that a wiser approach was to talk softly and carry a big stick. *The NYT naively believes the Administration should take the stick off the table and dismantle it entirely, even before the talking yields any tangible results.<\/p>\n

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On 02.04.10 11:45 AM posted by Mackenzie Eaglen <imgsrc="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pentagon_081204.jpg" alt="Pentagon (Photo by Newscom)" \/><\/p>The Pentagon\u0092s major strategy known as the Quadrennial Defense Review was released this week.*It immediately drew praise from the New York Times\u0092 editorial titled <atitle="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/opinion\/04thur1.html?th&emc=th" href="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/opinion\/04thur1.html?th&emc=th">\u0093The Defense Budget\u0094 for cutting weapons programs\u0097although not nearly enough\u0097and for acknowledging a decline by choice regarding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}