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| Obama Wants To Combine Budgets Of Pentagon, State and USAID |
| 2010-11-18 |
| The Obama administration is considering creating a unified national security budget that would combine elements of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development with the Pentagon, according to a draft copy of a long-awaited foreign policy strategy review shared with Congress this week. Citing the joint planning required between U.S. military and civilian agencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, the proposal is one of several that would put the U.S. diplomatic corps and its lead global humanitarian agency on a stronger national security footing, according to a draft of the State DepartmentÂ’s first-ever Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, or QDDR. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered the review last year to be modeled after the PentagonÂ’s four-year review, intended as a strategic guide for appropriators. It is part of an ongoing White House-led effort to link development and national security. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #8 Basically an update of the old State Department attitude of looking at the Armed Forces as their dog-walkers. There's a Madeline Albright remark that sums it up, but I can't seem to find it. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-11-18 21:00 |
| #7 "see? The budget didn't change, but |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-11-18 20:51 |
| #6 The old hustle, where did the money go? I remember a Magician on Johnny Carson explaining the old Three shells and a pea hustle. Pure scam. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-11-18 20:45 |
| #5 This will go exactly nowhere when it hits the House - think that the Chairman of the House Defense Committee is going to surrender that seat to Obumbles? What about the Senate Chairman? What about the various Secretaries in the Executive Branch? This is will die a slow death by "necessary review and consultation". |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2010-11-18 20:23 |
| #4 Since we don't have a budget what's the diff? After all, SFNan thinks that budgets are optional and old-fashioned, no? |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2010-11-18 19:45 |
| #3 DoDo, or a plan to include additional spending under the umbrella of Defense but that actually goes to abortion in Africa or something else that probably wouldn't get funding. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-11-18 19:07 |
| #2 AFRICOM was/is the prototype. A UN-Lite structure is the goal. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-11-18 17:53 |
| #1 It is part of an ongoing White House-led effort to |
| Posted by: DoDo 2010-11-18 16:24 |