Preemptive Disarmament: The New Democratic Party Playbook

Get set for not only a 25% reduction in defense spending, but the Department of Peace. This is the agenda of the modern Democrat party. They have no interest in hiding their intentions.

Democrats want to see the Defense Department gutted, so that they can instead have a Department of Peace, which promotes such novel ideas as the Office of Peace Education and Training; Office of Domestic Peace Activities; Office of International Peace Activities; Office of Technology for Peace; Office of Arms Control and Disarmament; Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution; and Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights.

This is the Denis Kucinich far left playbook, and he's hoping that more Democrats sign on. That is, beyond 70 Democrats already cosponsoring the legislation. That's nearly 1/3 of the Democratic party caucus. So, what was once the far left playbook is now the party playbook.

Supporting peace and nonviolence is all well and good, but unless terrorists, terror regimes, and enemies of the US decide to use nonviolence as a means of opposing the US, this is as destructive and corrosive an idea to US national security as any proposed in the history of the nation. It's based on hope and wishful thinking rather than hundreds of years of history and the course of human events.

The Democrats are engaging in Preemptive Disarmament.

Essentially, the Democrats are hoping to force the US to use harsh language to combat our enemies, instead of killing them on battlefields around the world. This will be destructive to US foreign policy as our allies will be unable to rely on the US to come to their aid should they be attacked and we will have less capacity to handle conflict should it be waged against us.

This is the same Democratic party that claims that they support the war in Afghanistan, and yet they're proposing cutting defense spending 25% in a time of war, primarily because of their opposition to the war in Iraq, and yet it would have an adverse effect on military preparedness not only in Iraq, but in Afghanistan and for the US defense posture for years to come. It took more than a decade to rebuild the US military following the Vietnam drawdown that Democrats pushed with such vigor. Similarly, it took a decade for the Clinton cuts to be stemmed, and yet the portion of the US spending on military items is a fraction of GNP that it once was.