Posted: July 21, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2008
It has been a week since I blew the whistle on Barack Obama’s secret $439 billion plan for a mysterious initiative called the “civilian national security force.”
We don’t know any more about this plan than we did when Obama announced it June 2 in a speech, with the relevant part covered by almost no media with the exception of the Chicago Tribune and Congressional Quarterly.
Thanks, however, to talk radio and legions of bloggers, Obama’s chilling call to create a “civilian national security force” with a price tag equaling that of the Defense Department is beginning to get more attention.
It was in the context of announcing a plan to expand rapidly and dramatically the size of the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps that Obama dropped this bombshell: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
A few have suggested, I am making too much of a benign proposal by Obama – one that merely calls for a greatly increased commitment to the Foreign Service.
If so, why is it that the Obama campaign has gone mum on this proposal? Why is it that operatives keep promising us clarification that is never forthcoming? And, furthermore, is an expansion of the Foreign Service to the size of the $439 billion Defense Department (in 2007 dollars) really such an innocent idea?
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