Samuelson: ‘We Shouldn’t Gut Defense’

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Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson says today that “We shouldn’t gut defense. A central question of our budget debates is how much we allow growing social spending to crowd out the military and, in effect, force the United States into a dangerous, slow-motion disarmament.”

Indeed, defending America is the government’s primary responsibility: 

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