Dear CCI Friends,
After a long vacation, I am back at my desk and computer. I have greatly appreciated your personal notes and articles regarding Cold War III.
We have entered into a blizzard of insults, incriminations, threats and lies during this pre-election run-off culminating next month. In my 84 years, I have never experienced such a display of hysteria and misinformation across both parties. Having been a Democrat all of my life, I can’t vote for either party, so I chose to write in the candidate I feel most qualified for the office.
Friends, this is an extremely dangerous time to be alive, and most Americans are not even aware of the possibility of Nuclear War. Nuclear weapons are in bombers and submarines throughout the world’s air and oceans. Why are our U.S. bombers flying war-training missions over Russia’s borders? How would we feel if Russians were doing the same over San Francisco and New York City? Why do Pentagon and other high-level officials risk accidents which could result in an all-out Nuclear War?
Now, comes this article below where Hillary Clinton presents the strange admission that our military policy is wrongly directed … after she pushed Cold War tactics against Russia for decades. Who can explain this? Pandemonium reigns!
Please forward this article to as many friends and colleagues as possible.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Hillary Clinton calls on Pentagon to slash spending on F-35 stealth fighters, tanks, aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons and says they WON’T help in a war with China as she warns ‘deep savings’ in the military budget must be found
- Clinton penned a lengthy column on defense policy for Foreign Affairs magazine
- In it, she argues much defense spending should be shifted to ‘domestic renewal’
- Clinton argues that military spending is out of line with current world threats
- Notes that China has ‘asymmetric’ capabilities that could take out carriers
- Believes that large land wars are no longer a possibility in the modern world
- Says domestic supply chains, climate change and pandemics are bigger threats
- In a separate essay, she argues Joe Biden is the best candidate to ‘right the ship’
October 9, 2020
By Keith Griffith
Hillary Clinton has called on Congress to slash the Pentagon’s budget and shift funding to ‘domestic renewal’ and foreign diplomacy, arguing that expensive weapons systems from the Cold War and war on terror are no longer needed.
In a lengthy essay published in Foreign Affairs magazine on Friday, the former secretary of state laid out her vision for restructuring U.S. defense spending, while accusing the Trump administration of mismanagement.
‘Today’s competition is not a traditional global military contest of force and firepower,’ Clinton wrote.
‘Dusting off the Cold War playbook will do little to prepare the United States for adversaries that use new tools to fight in the gray zone between war and peace, exploit its open Internet and economy to undermine American democracy, and expose the vulnerability of many of its legacy weapons systems,’ she continued.