In an op-ed in last week's Washington Examiner, Tom Coburn, a Senator from Oklahoma, wrote that Congress should take "common sense steps like freezing defense spending until the Pentagon can pass an audit and remove all nondefense spending from the Pentagon's budget".As Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, "Our national debt is our biggest national security threat".
Those thresholds happen to be the same conditions that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen (C/CJS) had already set no impact on readiness, recruitment, effectiveness, retention, and unit cohesiveness.Mr Gates supports the compromise.
Anyway, he continues, undoing the economic dislocation created by decades of corporate welfare for the likes of ADM and Cargill will create economic dislocation.
Once captured, dehydrated and then liquefied, the CO2 is injected 7,000 feet underground near ADM's plant into the Mount Simon sandstone in the Illinois Basin, which spans Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.
That said, in this morning's obsessive read of pirate-shooting coverage, one attributed quote caught my eye:"We pay a lot for their training and... we earned, got a good return on their investment tonight," Vice Adm. William E. Gortney, commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East, said after the rescue.Yup.Yup
In 1947, in answer to interrogatories by the German Adm. Karl Dönitz, on trial for war crimes, Nimitz gave his justification for the unrestricted nature of U.S. submarine warfare in the Pacific during World War II.
