Wednesday Opinion
Today’s Editors’ Choice
- Tony Perkins: It’s Deja Vu All Over Afghan
- John Stossel: $2 Million Bathroom
- Walter Williams: Western Values Are Superior
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Opinion in Brief
Tony Perkins: “In a decision that goes back to 2007, a new report shows that the Pentagon flushed millions down the drain on a woodland pattern for Afghan soldiers — when ‘forests cover only 2.1 percent of the country’s total land area.’ … The uniform flap is now front and center in Congress, where both chambers are debating military spending. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) insisted the guilty parties at the Pentagon ‘seem to have lost sight of their common sense.’ An angry Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) vented, ‘[This] makes you smack your head in frustration. It’s a prime example of wasting hard-earned taxpayer dollars, and we’ve got to get to the bottom of how this happened.’ If McCaskill is so worried about taxpayer dollars, where was she when fellow Missourian Vicky Hartzler ® tried to save taxpayers billions in social engineering? For all the outrage over Afghan fashion, 214 members of Congress — including 23 Republicans — have no problem forking over $3.7 billion so that our troops could try on a new gender. People from both parties raced to sign a check for free sex-reassignment surgery — despite being 132 times more expensive than these uniforms. That’s the real ‘affront to taxpayers.’ At least you could make the case that providing uniforms, however misguided the selection may have been, is a legitimate military expense.”