Budget Cuts in the Department of Defense

If you think I am opposed to budget cuts, your wrong. If you think I want higher taxes, your wrong. Alright, that said, lets get to today's topic. In today's local paper, which is the Bangor Daily News for me, there was an article on the cutting of the DoDs budget. It covers the items being cut. Here is why they are cutting the budget for the F-22 Raptor which is the best fighter jet in the world "The Raptor is ill-suited to deterring roadside bombs in Iraq or hunting insurgents who vanish into the Afghan mountains." Alright, makes sense. I support the cut based on that explanation. It makes sense. Why develop an expensive weapon for another war at another time when we have a different kind of war right now. It makes sense. Except the next part where "A $160 billion Army system of combat vehicles, flying sensors, and bomb-hunting robots would be reduced." So, flying sensors and bomb-hunting robots also do not help fight roadside bombs or hunt insurgents who vanish into the Afghan mountains.
This is where the reasoning for the F-22 goes out the window. This is where my appreciation of the responsibility of the budgets, even if I don't believe they have any sense of responsibility at all, goes down even more. Yes, it is possible to always go lower than you already are. (Hitler anyone?) So, the new low isn't really comparable to anything right now because this low is a different kind of low. The economy isn't at rock bottom, our wars are not a devastating defeat with us sacraficing territory in peace treaties and all that stuff, and our leader isn't a genocidal maniac. Well, I have to go, part two will be coming up later (maybe.)