“We have already cut defense … about 30 percent over the last 10 years, and we’re still at war. We’re actively involved on multiple continents in real combat operations. We should not be drastically reducing our troop levels.”
That, as Bradford Richardson of The Hill reports, is the position taken by retired Admiral and former NATO Supreme Commander James Stavridis who:
… also disagreed with the president’s recent decision to pull the sole remaining aircraft carrier patrolling the Middle East out of the Arabian Gulf.
Saying that:
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