Critique of the Texas Fred blog

 I chose to critique the Texas Fred blog article titled Pentagon Official: The facts are in, And Obama's Policy is a Direct Danger to the United States. The article describes a report by the National Defense Panel that states that the president's military policy will leave the military weak and the U.S. vulnerable to attack.

Overall, I disagree with this article even though I think it does raise some good points.
I disagree that the U.S. shouldn't cut military spending. I think this because the national debt is huge and there is also still a huge budget deficit. We cannot keep living this way and something has to give. I think the military is an excellent place to slash the budget since the U.S. spends a way bigger percentage of its budget on defense spending than almost every other country.

I do agree with this article when they make a point about how Obama is talking about potentially invading Iran and Syria while at the same time proposing these budget cuts. This is inconsistent.

However, I feel that we do not need additional wars at the moment and that the U.S. is better off focusing on its economy. Historians say that it is nearly impossible for a nation to stay on top militarily if its economy fails. As far as safety is concerned, the U.S. has a lot of powerful allies, and in addition, proper intelligence is what we need to prevent attacks rather than brute military force. This article doesn't discuss any of that.

Nor does this even give a possible motive someone would have to attack us. It seems like we should consider changing our foreign policy so that there are fewer threats, especially considering that we currently spend more than 600 billion dollars per year on defense spending according to the Department of Defense's website.

Also, the article doesn't explain who the National Defense panel is and why we should trust them to be unbiased. I think that the Nation Defense Panel's opinion on how much money should be spent on Defense is like asking a wine specialist how much you should spend on wine. The U.S. could always have a bigger and better equipped military, but a panel of defense experts aren't going to be informed about the opportunity cost of doing so. Their skills are better suited to critiquing what we're doing with the resources the defense budget has.

So while I think the article did bring awareness to certain inconsistencies with the Obama administration, it failed to consider the big picture.