<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Kris and all:<br><br>To put it another way, these days you don't even get to be a SERIOUS CONTENDER for the White House unless you've broken bread (thrown back a few?) with the corporate heavyweights--the ones who don't ever want the limelight.<br><br>I guess if my choice is the disappointing vs. the deplorable, I'll choose the disappointing. In doing so, I'm maintaining the fiction that the exercise even matters.<br><br>--GY<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 9/29/10, Ron and Kris Graham <i><graham2639@mindspring.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ron and Kris Graham <graham2639@mindspring.com><br>Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] Gorbachav of the Pentagon? read this second. Lee<br>To: "'Lee Loe'" <leeloe@igc.org>, discuss@paa-tx.org, "'Deb Shafto '"
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<p class="yiv1048350404MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: black; font-weight: bold;">Ron and I believe Obama would never have been put in the position of President
and Commander in Chief of the U.S.
military if he was not part and parcel of the problem. If on the offbeat chance
Obama garners support within his administration and possibly with some members
of the CIA, Pentagon and FBI to get rid of the rogue forces within those agencies,
then an attempted coup will most likely be in the works. </span></font></b></p>
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[mailto:leeloe@igc.org] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, September 28, 2010
3:21 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ' Ron
and Kris Graham '<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Gorbachav of the
Pentagon? read this second. Lee</span></font></p>
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<p class="yiv1048350404MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.25in;"><font color="#0082c8" face="Georgia" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 130, 200);">Gorbachev
of the Pentagon?</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">When
he took over the top job in the Soviet Union
in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev wasn't tasked with - nor did he envision -
dismantling the Soviet system. Yet after six years of economic and political
reforms, the unintended consequence of Gorbachev's restructuring was the
74-year-old empire's collapse. In his prescient <em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1ZreSajZa%2Bmb%2BxO%2FfS7r%2FTNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1ZreSajZa%2Bmb%2BxO%2FfS7r%2FTNtpqNkvV%2BU">Granta
essay</a></span></font></i></em> on Gorbachev in 1990, the German writer Hans
Magnus Enzensberger described the Soviet leader's chief talent as precisely
this demolition" of "the second to the last remaining monolithic
empire of the twentieth century without the use of force, without panic, in
peace." In assessing the state of Europe ,
and the world that winter, Enzensberger concluded that more of these new
demolition experts were needed since "renunciation, reduction and
dismantling" would be the new touchstones of a more modest epoch. <br>
<br>
Enzensberger's words still hold true two decades later. The
United States
desperately needs that kind of demolition expert. Consider the Pentagon, an immense
edifice with a near-trillion-dollar budget that's <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=m9VY5Z4d44P%2B%2Bwxxmu5U9zNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=m9VY5Z4d44P%2B%2Bwxxmu5U9zNtpqNkvV%2BU">half
or more</a> of the entire Soviet GDP circa 1990. Consider our
Afghanistan
misadventure, which requires a Gorbachev-type figure to strategically frame an
orderly withdrawal. Consider the empire of bases we maintain overseas, and our
reluctance to close even one despite massive local opposition.<br>
<br>
Alas, it doesn't appear President Obama will be the Gorbachev this country
needs. For instance, when the president was looking for an
Afghanistan
exit plan last November, the Pentagon gave him only one: an additional surge of
30-40,000 troops, according to 'Bob Woodward's <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bD8%2FEKsXeuOdCNJqWbnNDTNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bD8%2FEKsXeuOdCNJqWbnNDTNtpqNkvV%2BU">latest
book</a>. Given war powers by the constitution, Obama watched the Pentagon take
this authority away from him. "Bluntly put," <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8Jg6HZic%2FXaB5h7tLg6T0jNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8Jg6HZic%2FXaB5h7tLg6T0jNtpqNkvV%2BU">writes</a>
Andrew Bacevich in TomDispatch, "the Pentagon gamed the process to exclude
any possibility of Obama rendering a decision not to its liking."<br>
<br>
What about the gamer-in-chief Robert Gates? The Pentagon chief is, like
Gorbachev, the consummate insider. He has the ear of Democrats and Republicans
alike. '""Unlike his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld, Gates has already
cleaned house at the Pentagon. "Gates has dismissed two service
secretaries, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the air force chief of
staff, the commanding admiral of Central Command, two commanding generals in
Afghanistan ,
and the surgeon general of the army," <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1MPGRP8It8cw4RTvkUnwOzNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1MPGRP8It8cw4RTvkUnwOzNtpqNkvV%2BU">writes</a>
Matthew Moten in <em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Foreign
Affairs</span></font></i></em>. <br>
<br>
"Gates has even bigger plans. He <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YlJN7XjT0dfIC%2B2S1wYlWTNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YlJN7XjT0dfIC%2B2S1wYlWTNtpqNkvV%2BU">wants
to close</a> an entire command, eliminate 50 generals and admirals, and reduce
private contractors. He plans to end some big-ticket items like the F-22
fighter plane and the C-17 transport plane. In all, he's proposing <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sedUvyAHX3tcnk2AUb%2FDhDNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sedUvyAHX3tcnk2AUb%2FDhDNtpqNkvV%2BU">$100
billion in savings</a> over the next five years, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=q0zBGLGRstEteGASt%2B5c0DNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=q0zBGLGRstEteGASt%2B5c0DNtpqNkvV%2BU">explicitly
channeling Eisenhower</a> in his frontal assault on the military-industrial
complex.<br>
<br>
This take-charge attitude, particularly in contrast with Obama's apparent
deference toward the generals, has generated glowing tributes to the Pentagon
head in <em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Newsweek</span></font></i></em>,
<em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Foreign Affairs</span></font></i></em>,
<em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The New York Times</span></font></i></em>.
"A self-described protector of institutions," Fred Kaplan <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ytiZ1Phn5mNLvTG75tH0mDNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ytiZ1Phn5mNLvTG75tH0mDNtpqNkvV%2BU">writes</a>
in <em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Foreign Policy</span></font></i></em>,
Gates "has also, in less than four years on the job, changed the way the
Pentagon does business and the military fights wars more than any defense
secretary since Robert McNamara."<br>
<br>
Like Gorbachev, Robert Gates has no intention of bringing down the Pentagon.
His reforms are designed to make the institution stronger. His attack on Pentagon
bureaucracy and overhead is meant to free up money that can be spent on
prosecuting America 's
wars. Gates wants a larger Pentagon budget, has no intention of dismantling our
empire of bases, and pushed hard for the surge in
Afghanistan . <br>
<br>
But the issue here isn't intended but unintended consequences. Are Obama and
Gates unwittingly teaming up to launch a restructuring that will dismantle what
they hold so dear?<br>
<br>
The first test of this Gorbachev hypothesis will be the Deficit Commission that
the president set up to look at ways to cut the $1.3 trillion gap between what
the government spends each year and what it receives in revenue. There are
rumors that the commission, which meets in secret, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CUj6w9UDU%2FhxtbtOVhDOazNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CUj6w9UDU%2FhxtbtOVhDOazNtpqNkvV%2BU">will
propose a cut</a> in Social Security for everyone except the very poor. Other rumors
suggest that the military budget will be on the cutting block as well. Senator
and commission member Dick Durbin (D-IL) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aUQ4%2FFe2sVXpM%2BELsGbdSzNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aUQ4%2FFe2sVXpM%2BELsGbdSzNtpqNkvV%2BU">says</a>
that "cutting the military is on the table, which would mean fewer bases,
less personnel and less brass." The commission's report comes out in
December. Calling for belt-tightening at the Pentagon would set an important
precedent.<br>
<br>
The second test will be Afghanistan .
If it's true Obama seeks a viable exit strategy, then we might witness a battle
of wills between the president and the Pentagon leading up to the much-touted July
2011 deadline. Obama has argued that U.S. troops will begin to leave
Afghanistan on this date; General Petraeus, on the other hand, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OTEaw%2Fcd%2BIe2Gl9Nv66ziDNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OTEaw%2Fcd%2BIe2Gl9Nv66ziDNtpqNkvV%2BU">argues</a>
that July 2011 "is the start of talking about transition" (which
Foreign Policy In Focus contributor Gareth Porter calls a dangerous
bait-and-switch maneuver in his <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RsAII8TmOudRQC0fxL3AdDNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RsAII8TmOudRQC0fxL3AdDNtpqNkvV%2BU">Focal
Points blog post</a>). If his position holds sway, Obama will have reasserted
his presidential authority and the generals will just have to start putting
away their toys.<br>
<br>
The third test will be public opinion. Americans want a more modest military
and foreign policy,. According to the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IpUgNQafnwMkPbHb5Ztb0DNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IpUgNQafnwMkPbHb5Ztb0DNtpqNkvV%2BU">latest
Global Views polling</a>, 91 percent of Americans want
Washington to focus on problems at home
rather than address challenges from abroad. Only 24 percent believe that the
United States
plays a more important and powerful role as a world leader today compared to 10
years ago. And by 2020, most people think China
and the United States
will wield comparable global influence. If these numbers continue along the
same trajectory, there will be considerable domestic pressure to reduce
U.S.
commitments abroad and adjust to what the pollsters call "constrained
internationalism."<br>
<br>
These are perhaps slender threads to hang on to. The Pentagon is huge, and our
efforts to undermine its foundations often seem quixotic. But deep and
profound crisis made it possible for a Gorbachev to emerge in the
Soviet Union . If nothing else, the
United States
surely finds itself today in a crisis of Soviet-style proportions.<br>
<br>
</span></font><strong><b><font color="#0082c8" face="Georgia" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 130, 200);">We the Pushers</span></font></b></strong><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><br>
</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
One of the worst side effects of Pentagon growth is our unrelenting push to
export the arms that we make in increasing numbers. "The global arms trade
is a $60 billion yearly business," reports FPIF columnist Conn Hallinan in
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OHSL0y8h12N5GpoFwdVPbzNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OHSL0y8h12N5GpoFwdVPbzNtpqNkvV%2BU">The
Real "Merchants of Death."</a> "The
United States controls nearly 40
percent of this trade, defending its turf with the ferocity of a junkyard dog.
The 10 biggest arms exporters are - in order - the United States, Russia,
Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, China, Israel, the Netherlands, and
Italy. Sweden and
Switzerland are
close behind. This order shifts from year to year, but one thing never changes:
The United States is always No. 1."<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, we continue to hold on tenaciously to a nuclear weapons complex that
even Cold Warriors like George P. Shultz now realize undermine
U.S. national
security. The Senate is considering the New START agreement with
Russia , but
already the hawks have extracted concessions from the Obama administration to
pump money into modernizing the very weapons that we promise eventually to
eliminate. <br>
<br>
The Obama administration has even pushed back against European proposals to
remove the 200 tactical nuclear weapons the United
States maintains in Belgium ,
Germany ,
Italy , the Netherlands ,
and Turkey .
But, writes FPIF contributor Stephen Herzog in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bu%2FITW8ZRZHy9y8pAT4AvDNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bu%2FITW8ZRZHy9y8pAT4AvDNtpqNkvV%2BU">The
End of Tactical Nukes in Europe?</a>, a new NATO contingency plans might just
prepare for the removal of these Cold War remnants. "
U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe create
divisions within NATO, complicate conventional and strategic arms control
efforts, and contribute to the overall climate of distrust between
Moscow and Brussels ,"
Herzog writes. "While contingency planning for states bordering
Russia may also
be somewhat provocative to the Kremlin, these arrangements enhance alliance
solidarity and provide vast opportunities for NATO burden sharing. And most
importantly, Article 5 contingency planning presents nearly unequivocal proof
of an American and Western European commitment to the security of Central and
Eastern Europe ."<br>
<br>
As for the larger goal of global nuclear disarmament, FPIF contributor Lawrence
Wittner points out in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=silFg47dr7MCH2%2BWTMThWwz9RxLYDvCk" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=silFg47dr7MCH2%2BWTMThWwz9RxLYDvCk">Public
Mobilization for a Nuclear-Free World</a> that while opposition to nuclear
weapons is widespread, but it does not run deep. Support for a treaty
abolishing nuclear weapons attracts only minority support in
India , Pakistan ,
Israel , and
Russia .
"Another sign support for a nuclear-free world is weaker than implied by
its favorability ratings is that an April 2010 poll among Americans found that,
although a large majority said they favored nuclear abolition, 87 percent
considered this goal unrealistic," Wittner writes. <br>
<br>
Finally, our FPIF Pick this week is <em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Midnight on the Mavi Marmara</span></font></i></em>,
a collection of essays about the Israeli attack on the flotilla heading to
Gaza in late May. This
first book on the flotilla massacre, FPIF contributor Peter Certo <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Pdy2qG5qf9%2FRHVKi0cWERTNtpqNkvV%2BU" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Pdy2qG5qf9%2FRHVKi0cWERTNtpqNkvV%2BU">writes</a>,
serves "as the general public's introduction to civil society and the Gaza
crisis - a collection of eyewitness accounts as well as a useful background
reader, and a clarion call to action infused with the energy and efficacy of
the activists themselves."</span></font></p>
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