There is going to be "change we can believe in" in the defense budget

RealClearWorld - Secretary Gates' Address to the Economic Club of Chicago: "It is time to draw the line on doing Defense business as usual. The President has drawn that line. And that red line is a veto. And it is real."

Gates says in essence: we have to do business with cheaper gadgets which today will give the same result. The price tag on the defense budet is also coming down after Iraq and Afghanistan is over, Gates says. I think it is positive that he is begining to see an end to AfPak.

The other day I talked about two different worlds the post 9/11 Bush years and that of now and forward. My own perhaps naive idea. However, I think I like the change because the world out there seems to tag along.

We will continue to have problems with "terrorists" like in Indonesia and other places but it is probably good to not call it a war against the suicide bombers. There has been an unsuccessful war against drugs as well. Terrorism is a form of criminality that we will have to live with for some more years.