Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison criticizes the Obama Department of Defence for a wasteful transformation of our international military presence.

Senator Bailey does not use the language, but she is complaining against the Obama agenda of "taking down" an arrogant national mystic, in this case, effecting our international military presence.

Opening words in a Politico Op-ed by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (S-Tx): For the future security posture of U.S. military forces and for the fiscal health of our nation, our military construction agenda should be guided by these words: build in America.

At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. military determined that our armed forces would be best trained and equipped for service when stationed on U.S. soil. Thus, our military adopted a “force projection” strategy that allows service members to deploy from home, rather than being based primarily overseas.

The Overseas Basing Commission reaffirmed the force projection strategy in 2005. It lauded the insights and vision behind Defense Department initiatives to transform the military and re-station tens of thousands of military personnel back on U.S. soil. Congress has legislated and appropriated accordingly.

We’ve now invested more than $14 billion to build housing, stationing, training and deployment capacities at major military installations. Deployment of U.S. forces from Germany to Iraq, for example, was complicated by denials of air and ground routes through several European countries. We have proved we can best deploy from the United States — and we can do it more cost effectively.

However, the DoD’s current military construction proposal would set in motion a worldwide transformation of U.S. basing that would expand our overseas presence. DoD is pursuing expensive, and in some cases duplicative, military construction projects in Europe, South Korea and Guam, without demonstrating adequate cost efficiencies, projected costs or a broader basing strategy.

This shift in global posture fundamentally disconnects with stateside basing capabilities and reverses the Overseas Basing Commission’s recommendations. . . . . READ MORE >>>

Editor's notes: what we have in this op-ed is an informative complaint by the Senator concerning continued excessive spending originating from the Obama administration. Anytime you see or hear the word "transformation, " you must know that we are talking about the Obama agenda of "fundamentally transforming the United States." He is committed to a One World agenda on the larger scale and a redistribution of wealth and services on a national scale that is identical in nature to the theft of hard earned income and innovative investments and a consequential welfare style handout of that money to those who have not otherwise qualified themselves to meet their financial needs and wants.

Hutchison is complaining that this agenda has affected military outlays and plans, as well. It is obvious from her testimony that the Obama One World Concern is making preparations for our national army to become a part of a larger international force. Of course, this transition will take a number of years, but the beginnings of this Marxist agenda is being implemented as we write. Secretary of Defense, Gates, a throw back from the Bush Administration, is an enthusiastic member of this World One military transition.

The article is well worth the read. As far as Senator Hutchison is concerned, the debate is not just about the untimely expense of money (we do not have) but the military readiness of the US Military in response to future international crisis. She is concerned that we are not only spending money we do not have, we are placing our military into an international circumstance that does not care about the particular concerns of its individual member nations, and most definitely the United States. Obama and his yes-men do not believe in a "superior" US national military force. They are disbelievers in the doctrine of American Exceptionalism and, more than that, are busy working to diminish the reality of that doctrine. With this op-ed, it is clear that the move to transform America into a third rate world power effects all phases of our national politic.

Besides being the worst thing to ever happen to the Democrat Party, Obama is proving to be an unmitigated disaster with regard to our nation, beginning with our military presence in the World -- jds.
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