A military advocacy organization is not happy with President Barack Obama's plans to drastically cut defense spending by $53 billion.
Military Families United (MFU) is a non-profit organization committed to supporting America's troops and their families. MFU executive director Brian Wise says the Obama administration has no qualms about providing $350 billion to bail out Wall Street or $17.4 billion to bail out General Motors and Chrysler, but cannot provide the necessary funding to protect American troops from improvised explosive devices (IEDs). "The president is taking away from a $1.5 billion budget for detecting IEDs, $1 billion. Seventy-five percent of that budget will be removed," he points out. "If those programs aren't in place, more of our soldiers will be lost to terrorists trying to kill [them]." Wise calls it irresponsible for Obama to pledge thousands more troops to Afghanistan without giving them what they need to engage the enemy. "It doesn't make any sense sending 17,000 more troops into Afghanistan and then not giving them the resources that they need to adequately fight. Or going on the air and saying he doesn't know that that will make a difference in Afghanistan," he notes. "That doesn't seem like a very responsible position to us." MFU is imploring President Obama to provide the vital funding that U.S. troops need and deserve.
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