Leave it to the Washington Post’s award-winning national security reporter, Walter Pincus, to put things in perspective. In a new column, Pincus points out a remarkable inequity: While the US faces a fiscal crisis and debates the need for defense cuts, it’s footing the bill for one-fifth of Israel’s military budget—even as that country cuts its own defense spending to tackle domestic economic ills. You know, the way we always talk about changing our country’s budget priorities.
via US Pays 18 Percent of Israel’s Military Budget | Mother Jones.