This editorial will be published in the March 30 edition of The Weekly Standard.“The single biggest threat to our national security is our debt.”That was a myopic claim when made by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen back in September 2011. But for the House Republicans to recycle it now—as Vladimir Putin’s troops gnaw their way across eastern Ukraine, as ISIS ruthlessly builds its “caliphate,” as Iran wriggles its way out of sanctions and toward regional hegemony, as China pushes its fleets into the Pacific—to promote their defense budget proposals is to demonstrate an accountant’s eye …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research