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USIP is on the chopping block, it should not be, at all...

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Thu, 02/24/2011 - 9:03pm
The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to cut nearly all funding to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). This is a crying shame. Don't know what USIP does? Go here and find out.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

--Albert Einstein

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pc (not verified)

Fri, 02/25/2011 - 5:10pm

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USIP stepped on the third-rail by criticizing Israel, therefore they are on the chopping block.

Israels antipathy toward USIP stems at least from the 2006 Iraq Study Group, sponsored by USIP, and its claim, echoed later by General Petraeus and Admiral Mullen, that "The United States cannot achieve its goals in the Middle East unless it deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict..."

JackC (not verified)

Fri, 02/25/2011 - 1:47pm

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The USIP employs a lot of people who pretend they provide a useful service in the pursuit of peace. And who could be against "peace"?

pjmunson

Fri, 02/25/2011 - 12:36am

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The cuts are going to hurt and many are going to come in places that will end up costing us much more in the future. Unfortunately, there will be a lot of business as usual within big organizations like State and DoD, forcing nearly wholesale cuts on enablers like USIP, rather than cutting the fat within all programs, especially those mission-essential functions that receive an endless cash flow.