{"id":36527,"date":"2011-06-26T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/gates-stunner-defense-cutbacks-its-time-for-me-to-retire\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:45:51","slug":"gates-stunner-defense-cutbacks-its-time-for-me-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/gates-stunner-defense-cutbacks-its-time-for-me-to-retire.php","title":{"rendered":"Gates Stunner! Defense cutbacks &#8211; &quot;It&#8217;s time for me to retire&#8230;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-BiimoCBp2_s\/TgH-cuvUJjI\/AAAAAAAATpc\/hJW-bGJvvpA\/s1600\/RobertGates.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7f63b_RobertGates.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, on coming Defense cutbacks, and potential loss of America's superpower status due to a \"dramatic transformation,\" in military spending under Obama. Quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/Columnists\/Article.aspx?id=225858\">J-Post<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;To tell you the truth, that&rsquo;s one of the many reasons it&rsquo;s time for me to retire, because frankly I can&rsquo;t imagine being part of a nation, part of a government . . . that&rsquo;s being forced to dramatically scale back our engagement with the rest of the world.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Editor's comment - Gates returning to his Republican roots, perhaps?  Looking at the latest poll numbers and seeing a coming Republican win in 2012.  Highly unusual for a Cabinet official to take such a jab at his own administration.  <\/em><\/p><p>H\/t Weasel Z...<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7f63b_7828681836623105417-7208996639591083072?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, on coming Defense cutbacks, and potential loss of America's superpower status due to a \"dramatic transformation,\" in military spending under Obama. Quoted by J-Post:&ldquo;To tell you the truth, that&rsquo;s one of the many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/gates-stunner-defense-cutbacks-its-time-for-me-to-retire.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}