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We Can’t Afford Peace Institute With All The Wars

Politico's Matt Wuerker illustrates the funding disparity between the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Institute of Peace.

James Joyner · Tuesday, March 29, 2011 · 1 comment

Politico’s Matt Wuerker illustrates the funding disparity between the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Institute of Peace:

Despite a budget of only $44 million, a small fraction of the costs of the Tomahawks fired by the U.S. in the first few hours of Operation Odyssey Dawn, there have been calls to eliminate USIP entirely.

via Laura Rozen

FILED UNDER: Humor, National Security, Defense Department, Laura Rozen, POLITICO

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Comments

Ben Wolf says:

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 17:38

USIP generates good information. We have them to thank for the comprehensive and independent reporting of the Iraq Study Group which settled once and for all that Iraq had no active WMD programs.

Maybe that’s why it has to go. It told the truth one to many times.