SENATE AVOIDING ISSUE OF PENTAGON SPENDING

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FRED KAPLAN, SLATE - The Senate is debating the defense bill now, and
the central fact about the proceedings is that nobody's talking about
money. Certainly this is strange. The military budget in question-not
including any money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan-totals $500
billion. This is roughly equal to the military budgets of all the rest
of the world's nations combined. Adjusting for inflation, it is larger
than the U.S. military budget at the peak of the Cold War-in fact,
larger than any budget since the Korean War. Again, this is true, apart
from the money allocated for the current wars.

Shouldn't some legislators be asking about the ways the Pentagon is
spending so much money and whether all those ways are necessary?. . .

http://www.slate.com/id/2174398/

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