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Subject: Obama Defense Plan Would End The Ability To Fight Two Conventional Wars At Once
CJH    1/7/2012 9:00:54 PM
Obama Defense Plan Would End The Ability To Fight Two Conventional Wars At Once Obama quoted Eisenhower - "Each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs"

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Wish Obama would take his own advice. That especially concerning unrealistic programs to cure every ill in the economy.

Entire Eisenhower paragraph following the preceding one - "Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research -- these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.

But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs -- balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage -- balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration. "

This seems to be a case of Obama reversing what Eisenhower intended.

 
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