{"id":3728,"date":"2010-02-11T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2010-02-11T19:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:15:22","slug":"the-pentagon-goes-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3728\/the-pentagon-goes-green\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon Goes Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, in more innocent times, I decided to find and read all the \u201cnon-partisan\u201d government reports in order to get a better handle on the details of policy.\u00a0 When I asked a friend of mine who worked in D.C. for recommendations on where to start, he said, \u201cDon\u2019t.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t any unbiased reports because they\u2019re all consensus documents created to support a political agenda.\u201d\u00a0 Even the Pentagon\u2019s Quadrennial Defense Review?!\u00a0 \u201cYes,\u201d came the reply.<\/p>\n<p>Any doubt in my mind was erased after reading that the military\u2019s most recent review <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/424659\/national-security-goes-green\/brett-d-schaefer-and-baker-spring \" target=\"_blank\">designates \u201cclimate change\u201d as a national security threat<\/a>.\u00a0 (Small digression: I thought progressives like Obama got votes in the presidential campaign for scoring Republicans on being the Party of Fear.\u00a0 Now, every issue from childhood obesity to global warming is a threat akin to a terrorist attack.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe bureaucratic sclerosis is to blame since the parts dealing with climate change are based on the same faulty evidence in the now discredited report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.\u00a0 If that\u2019s the case, though, that means the Obama suits writing the top brass\u2019s most important self-assessment are not only wrong, they\u2019re outdated.\u00a0 My guess is the odds of this section being the only one with glaring deficiencies is pretty low.\u00a0 Thank you, Washington, for creating another report unworthy of reading.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: National Review Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, in more innocent times, I decided to find and read all the \u201cnon-partisan\u201d government reports in order to get a better handle on the details of policy.\u00a0 When I asked a friend of mine who worked in D.C. for recommendations on where to start, he said, \u201cDon\u2019t.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t any unbiased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,848],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}