The McCain/Obama Echo Chamber
David Beito •
Thursday July 3, 2008 9:28 AM PDT •
In the last two days, both Obama (here) and McCain (here) have called for a bigger military. Here is what Obama said:
We need to ease the burden on our troops, while meeting the challenges of the 21st century. That’s why I will call on a new generation of Americans to join our military, and complete the effort to increase our ground forces by 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines.
David Beito is a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute and editor of the Independent book, The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (with Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok).
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