Another Opinion on the Military

From the New York Times opinion page.

"Over a third of the Army's active-duty combat troops are now in Iraq, and by spring the Pentagon plans to let most of them come home for urgently needed rest. Many will have served longer than a normal overseas tour and under extremely harsh conditions. When the 130,000 Americans rotate out for home leave, nearly the same number will rotate in. At that point, should the country need to send additional fighters anywhere else in the world, it will have dangerously few of them to spare.

This is the clearest warning yet that the Bush administration is pushing America's peacetime armed forces toward their limits. Washington will not be able to sustain the mismatch between unrealistic White House ambitions and finite Pentagon means much longer without long-term damage to our military strength."

Fortunately since this article appeared in the New York Times, and since we know that the New York Times is, for all intents and purposes, completely corrupted by liberalism (unless they print something that happens to support a conservative position), there's nothing to worry about.