Dick Cheney is all concerned that President Barack Obama is going to hurt the military and not support our troops by supporting food stamps for hungry people, including said troops. No doubt in Cheney-land, a president who wanted to strengthen the military wouldn't be planning to withdraw from Afghanistan, he'd be starting
new wars, because you really know you have a strong military when everyone in it has been deployed a minimum of a half dozen times. But when it comes to the terrible, awful damage likely to be done by shrinking the military down from two-wars-at-once size,
there's Cheney going to Sean Hannity to mutter about "enormous long-term damage to our military." It's a typical Cheney-Bush "be afraid" moment. But the truth is, our military is ... large.
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Really, a few cuts are not going to imperil our national security. And Dick Cheney saying that we've always been at war with Eastasia doesn't actually mean we should be so scared that we start sending pallets of cash over to defense contractors. By contrast, food banks actually
are running out of food.