Edmonton Sun | 24May2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/letters/2010/05/21/14042246.html
Cut and run
There will necessarily be deep cuts in Britain’s military spending,
Eric Margolis says, given how Prime Minister David Cameron’s new
government must quickly slash $240 billion in spending or risk a
Greek-style financial crisis. With western economies crushed by debt
loads, it’s obvious the profligate Bush-era War on Terror will undergo
a cost-benefit analysis and in the end be pared back. A cadre of
realists waving balance sheets heavily scored with red ink will tell us
the ultimate victory we sought is unaffordable, that a swath of tax
revenue will henceforth be gobbled up by the servicing of onerous debt
carried by western nations. “Cut and run” will acquire a whole new
meaning, while low overhead gives the jihadis their staying power.
Orest Slepokura
(That’s blind faith.
Cheap to maintain, tough to challenge.)