November 7 - An Israeli Perspective Of Striking Iran; What Bloated Defense Budgets Have Bought; Have Bloated Budgets Become The New Norm?

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Part 1	We begin and analyze statements from Israel’s Shimon Peres saying “the clock is ticking for a military strike on Iran” and warnings from the Russian Foreign Minister that “an attack on Iran would be a very serious mistake fraught with unpredictable consequences”. Gideon Levy, the former spokesman for Shimon Perez, joins us to provide an Israeli perspective on whether the increasingly isolated Netanyahu government is determined to strike Iran.
Part 2	Then we look into the task of cutting $450 billion from the defense budget over ten years that Secretary of Defense is wrestling with, or failing an agreement by the Congressional Supercommittee, Panetta could find himself facing 500 billion in additional reductions over the next decade. First we speak with Russell Rumbaugh who was a defense analyst on the Senate Budget Committee and is author of a new report “What We Bought: Procurement from FY 01 to FY 2010”. We discuss how much of the decade-long 700 billion defense budget, that has doubled since 9/11, will be cut and how.
Part 3	Then William Hartung joins us to provide a different perspective on the defense budget and how to cut it. He is Project Director at the Center For International Policy and the author of “Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military Industrial Complex."
	MUSIC: Africa Hitech - Do You Really Want to Fight?; Super Furry Animals - It's Not The End of The World?; Lene Lovich - New Toy; Primus - Sgt. Baker