One of Ned's perennial favorite blowhards, extreme right-wing former UN "Ambassador" John Bolton, has opined to Fox "News"(h/t TPM) that now is NO time to cut "defense" spending. Too many threats that we don't know about and lots that we do, according to this sage. So, $800 billion isn't enough for these people, even though we "defeated" the Russians on a war, er, "defense" budget of $270 billion. Ned wonders how much WOULD be enough to these bloodthirsty reactionaries, and how many of other people's kids they would be happy to see blown to hell in the name of "freedom." A couple hundred thousand in Iraq, tens of thousands in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and even a few hundred in Granada. A million in Vietnam. The clock is still counting in Afghanistan.
Ned only wishes that Mr Bolton, and all such like him, would get the reward that Ned would give them.
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