U.S. Army To Shrink Another 40,000 Troops

by JASmius



Evidently, cutting troop levels to pre-World War II levels wasn't sufficient, so now the Obarmy is bent on whacking them down to pre-World War I levels instead:

The U.S. Army plans to cut forty thousand [more] troops over the next two years, affecting all its domestic and foreign posts, USA Today reported on Tuesday, saying the Army also planned to cut seventeen thousand civilian employees.

The cuts would reduce the active-duty Army from its current size of about 490,000 soldiers to about 450,000, its smallest number since before the United States entered World War Two....

The excuse?  "We were going to do this anyway" as part of the nearly $1 trillion in reductions to planned defense spending over a decade.

Here's a question I'd have for Barack Obama if I, as a distinguished member of the mainstream (i.e. conservative) media, ever made it into the White House press corps (Hey, they let Fox News stay, why not admit Political Pistachio?): Why string out this process?  Why do it in below-the-radar dribs and drabs?  Why not just stride triumphantly into the Rose Garden or the East Room or wherever a colossus decides to stride on that particular day and announce that you're disbanding the armed forces altogether, effective immediately?  No more Army, no more Navy, no more Air Force, no more Marines, no more Coast Guard, no more Border Patrol, no more anything.  A clean, pacifist slate.  The Defense Commissariat to be renamed the Commissariat of Peace.  All remaining tanks and APCs and combat aircraft and warships to be sliced up and converted into those butt-ugly "modern art" sculptures that lefties are so fond of.



All remaining ammunition to be melted down for pencil lead to be distributed to all Common Core public indoctrination centers "schools".  All remaining nuclear weapons reduced to radiological parts to be distributed throughout "red" States and enclaves to cull the patriotic conservative population.

Yes, it would be a trick question.  One, that would discriminate against O's homosexualization of the military, something the "first gay president" would never do.  And two, he's going to need armed and equipped "soldiers" to carry out his martial law crackdown.

Apparently he's concluded that his coup de tat requires forty thousand fewer troops than he originally calculated.  Which might be a grave miscalculation.