[CPEO-IRF] Principi predicts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This article reinforces my belief that the time for states and 
localities to take action to prevent military bases from closing has 
passed. The purpose of the BRAC Commission is not to revise the list, 
but to take the flak. Perhaps actions taken in the past to prevent 
encroachment have influenced Pentagon basing decisions, but the base 
retention industry - studies, lobbyists, petitions, and demonstrations - 
is in nearly all cases a misdirected, or wasted effort. But in 
threatened communities, it's probably political suicide to suggest that. 
- LS]


Principi: Pentagon a force to be reckoned with in BRAC process

By: MARK WALKER
North County Times (CA)
April 29, 2005

A Rancho Santa Fe resident heading the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure 
Commission said Thursday that it will be difficult to remove any bases 
from a list of military installations the Pentagon proposes to shutter.

Anthony Principi said it will be even harder to add a base to the list 
that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will issue on May 13.

"My philosophy is to not be inclined to add bases to the list," Principi 
said in a telephone interview with the North County Times from his 
offices in Washington. "To take a base off the list, the commission has 
to find that the secretary of defense deviated from the force structure 
requirements, and it takes seven commissioners to agree."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/04/29/news/top_stories/23_29_514_28_05.txt


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