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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Iran Does Not Justify Current Levels Of U.S. Defense Spending
Mark Thiessen argues that we can’t afford to cut military spending because “We face potential conflicts with Iran, North Korea, Yemen and Somalia.” This seems like a reasonable benchmarking exercise, but consider the actual gap in US and Iranian defense expenditures: Israel’s defense budget is about 50 percent larger than Iran’s, as is the UAE’s. [...]
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