
It would be far easier to rail against the apparent misguidance of President Obama on National Defense and his silly little notions of World Peace than to attempt a calm assessment of his revamped nuclear strategy, but a calm assessment is more of what this country needs right now. Rudy Giuliani has a piece up over at National Review that sums it up fairly well: Obama is living in a ‘Left-Wing Dream’ world. The bigger issue, though, is that he continues to talk out of both sides of his mouth. Consider the “guiding principles” on his Defense Issues page at the White House website [emphasis mine]:
The Obama Administration is investing in a strong, agile, well-trained, and well-equipped U.S. military that can fight and win the nation’s wars. U.S. Armed Forces must be able to prevail in current operations and the missions they are most likely to face, while developing capabilities to deter potential adversaries and provide a hedge against other risks and contingencies. Our policies will incorporate lessons from our experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. First and foremost, we will ensure that our troops have the training, equipment and support that they need when they are deployed, and the care that they and their families need and deserve.
Given Obama’s work on the international scene, since taking office, this statement is just not true. The only hedging ‘against other risks and contingencies’ going on in the White House these days is related to re-election bids and campaign donors.
Obama’s promise to get out of Iraq as quickly as possible gave rise to a scramble between the factions in anticipation of the power to be had in the vacuum of our withdrawal. His dithering in Afghanistan doubled the fatality rate of George Bush’s worst period in that war, and has pushed its President to the point of considering changing teams. His willingness to expose Central Europe to Russian missiles might have pleased the Russians and it might have even been the deal-sealer in getting the START treaty signed, but it certainly didn’t make any new friends among those on the losing end of that strategy.
It’s not unfair to assume that our list of friends grows shorter by the day, in large part, because Obama presents to the world an untrustworthy partner and an unreliable ally that is no longer willing to fight, let alone win, when backed into a corner and provoked. Even in gaining Russian acceptance of the new START agreement, for example, Moscow reserves the right to opt-out under certain circumstances. How does this reassure our allies in that region?
This is not the posture of a superpower willing to lead the free world through superior strength and fight to defend herself and her friends with honor dignity and self-respect. This is the posture of the new kid in school giving away his lunch money in hopes he won’t get his butt kicked and shoved into his locker.
This President is unserious about Iran, and is unaware or unconcerned that this very same Iran means to destroy Israel, and promises on a regular basis to do so when the right opportunity present itself.
Selling a pacifist America to an International community hell-bent on killing eachother and themselves in the name of some greater good serves no master save for the “Peace at all costs” crowd. Obama sells our strength and honor for all the wrong reasons and at great peril to us all. Giving away our promise of cataclysmic retaliation for large-scale attacks against us by any means only guarantees that they will now be tried sooner and with little reason to fear reprisal. Allowing Iran and North Korea to trundle along with their nuclear programs, especially now that we’ve told them we won’t fight back too hard unless they’re really really mean about it, only makes us the laughing stock they’ve been saying we were for years.
It’s clear to most of us that Obama does not negotiate in good faith (see health care), and that he means to keep campaign promises regardless the damage and destruction he leaves in his wake by doing so. What’s not so clear, even now, is just where America will be by the time he’s finished keeping his word to all the folks that seem to like us the least…here AND around the globe. Erick is right…Obama’s is a very dangerous game.
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Pacifism kills
NickDeringer (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 1:42PM EST (link)Gandhi was a great man of peace, but India developed nukes anyway just in case their enemies weren’t into Gandhi.
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Elitist Obama, and his so-called moral high ground....
penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 2:08PM EST (link)digs a grave for America. I haven’t sorted all of this out yet, but the question arises, how many of our nuclear secrets are going to be revealed in these kinds of moves. Perhaps not only the nuclear issues, but any other American defenses we might have.
An Alpha leader this guy isn’t, the rest of the world is just watching and waiting to move in for the kill.
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I dunno ... it's always worked before
spim Tuesday, April 6th at 2:18PM EST (link)Wilson and the League of Nations
Chamberlain and his super-air-tight-can’t-be-broken treaty of peace
etc.
You Are Who You Associate With
spinoneone Tuesday, April 6th at 2:32PM EST (link)Well, here is a student of Saul Alinsky, Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez, Vin Jones, the Rev. Mr. Wright, Bill Ayers, and so on and so forth sitting in the chair of the President of the United States of America. A “post-modern” man who has no known history. Raised and financed by the far left of our political spectrum.
What did you expect? That he really was going to be a center-leftist just because he said so on the campaign trail? You are kidding, right?
We have a narcissist who has no one providing any control whatsoever. It can not end well, not for him and not for us.
One of these days we are going to find deep cuts in Department of Defense budgets. Maybe the moth-balling of all of our Ohio class missile subs, including those for Tomahawks as well as the Tridents. Perhaps we won’t maintain any more of our carriers. Stop the production of the F-35 [the F-22 is toast already.] Cut a couple of divisions from the Army and one from the Marines.
Then look for the establishment of a “home defense force.” If that happens, you better already had thought out how you want to defend yourself and your family.
There is a great piece by Victor Davis Hanson over at pajamasmedia that you might want to look at.
VDH Is Great - I Never Get Enough of Him
Ron Robinson (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 4:38PM EST (link)…and it’s not just because he’s values the yeoman’s life as I do (read all you can of his writings on agriculture and the small farmer).
VDH’s latest over a PJM is a bit steep and overly ‘cute’ for me – usually he is decisive, trenchant and penetrating. There are some very good videos of VDH at PJTV’s ‘Uncommon Knowlege’ TV archive as well (about a dozen).
He is held in very high regard by many!
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I awaken each morning in a country increasingly strange to me
jdw4america (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 2:47PM EST (link)I have seen government OF THE PEOPLE become GOVERNMENT OF the people.
I have seen American liberties trampled upon by a malicious, malignant, tyrannical, ideologically rigid oligarchy.
I have also seen that oligarchy, with its drones and propagandist sneer at, ridicule and insult the overwhelming majority of the American people.
I have seen the government acquire private sector industries in the name of economic stability.
I have seen immorality elevated to a virtue.
I have seen the government force the people, with the stroke of a pen, to pay for millions of abortions against their will, and in violation of long-standing statute.
I have seen the representatives of the people of the United States alienate and insult our allies throughout the world while simultaneously sycophantically fawning over and appeasing regimes and rogue nations who daily announce their desire for our destruction.
Today, I have seen the President of the United States, (a man so drunk with power and so enamored with himself that I am surprised he does not ejaculate at the sound of his own voice,) announce that we will not retaliate with decisive and terrible destruction even in the case of a chemical or biological attack.
And we, who object, are called radicals.
Is this still my country? Is it yours? Have we gone too far to restore America’s singular greatness? Will we be allowed to try?
Dave, Obama is working on making the military obsolete
Veronica (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 3:46PM EST (link)“Fight and win the nation’s wars” is just rhetoric meant to satisfy Americans interested in a strong defense.
WhatAmerican wants to feel vulnerable when there are rogue nations honing their nukes while we ditch ours?
But he has these missions — including Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. — where the military is regalated to babysitter while those ROE’s keep getting modified to keep troops’ hands tied behind their backs.
And, as far as I’m concerned, his Defense page is at odds with the new war doctrine he unveiled in March:
1. “Military power should not, maybe cannot, be the last resort of the state.”
2. “To the maximum extent possible, force should be applied in a precise and principled way.”
3. “In the very dynamic security environment we find ourselves in — we should welcome a constant struggle between policy and strategy.”
Number 1 isn’t what you’re thinking. Does he want troops in conflict areas as a possible “first resort”? Sure he does. Before conflict begins, as peacekeepers, much the way it’s being done in Haiti and in the Afghan ‘war” with restrictive ROEs.
More soft power, diplomacy, regotiating and working through “partners.”
Notice how the UN isn’t even mentioned on Obama’s defense page. And they were the ones who raised the biggest ruckus over Bush’s “goin’ cowboy” and his Iraq invasion and subsequent “occupation.”
That dithering last year was because he and his administration were working “back and through” the proper channels — meaning the UN. The internet is laced with articles about the UN trying to send their peacekeepers into Afghanistan, but they kept getting blown to bits until Obama finally made up his freaking mind in December to send in the “surge” in fits and starts.
Now the UN has a presence there, but are they mentioned? No. Because the UN represents multilateralism and diffused decision-making, where Afghanistan is supposed to be “Obama’s War.”
Freaking liars, the lot of them, beginning with Obama.
Again — he wants the military to become osolete. And the way to achieve this is by not having any wars. So, you pacify and peacekeep and have boots on the ground before there’s a need for a strong military.
Take a look at Haiti. How many troops do we have out there?
Right — they’re waiting for the next riot.
No way he’ll bring them back, anyway. It’d boost those unemployment numbers.
Don’t believe the farce!
Dave, thanks for posting this.
My apologies for rambling. It’s tough to take what’s happening to our country.
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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine
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Doh!!! Just what we need...
mdyou (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 4:32PM EST (link)…yet another Homer Simpson moment from POTUS.
Surprise !..... 100 US nuclear missles based in........ wait for it..........
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 4:52PM EST (link)Turkey.
You know……. Istanbul, not Constantinople……. Don’t get ‘em mad because they really are warriors…….. Goin’ more and more hardline on Israel by the day……….
That Turkey.
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http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_turkey0284_04_06.asp
Turkey was said to harbor up to 100 U.S. nuclear weapons as part of NATO. But the warheads were long believed to have been based at the Turkish air base at Incirlik rather than Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey.
Baytok said some of the tactical weapons were located in Istanbul while others were in cities near the Black Sea. He defined tactical weapons as those designed to strike former Warsaw Pact states in Europe.
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Nukes go in the silo. Keys go in the launcher. Muslims at the launcher. Our nukes…….. Farewell and adieu to you, fair American ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of America. For we’ve received orders for to sail into Hell. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
That's an awful thing to do to "Spanish Ladies," Kenny!
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 5:00PM EST (link)You gotta wonder if there’s any truth to that or how old the info is. I thought we pulled them all out in that profile in courage that settled the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In Vino Veritas
Sorry Art.......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 5:04PM EST (link)Well, not really…..
That’s what instantly came to mind when I saw the article……. All I heard was Quint singing.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat, but there’s only one in the water for a few million light years.
Just in case nobody knows what I'm talking about when it comes to Israel and Turkey.....
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 5:14PM EST (link)http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136862
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened Israel, telling Turkish national television Monday that his country would not “sit with its arms folded in the event that Israel attacks in Gaza once again.”
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Weeeeeellllllll…….. Isn’t that just special.
Obama's Weasel Words Mean Preemptive Surrender
Ron Robinson (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 5:40PM EST (link)Yikes – too long for comments? Instead, I put it over in the Diaries.
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Wing Zero (Diary) Tuesday, April 6th at 7:06PM EST (link)Since I can’t post profanity, insert your favorite in the title.
I’m not done. There will be a diary about the decline of our armed forces.
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In Perspective
raybryant Tuesday, April 6th at 7:43PM EST (link)He’s Woodrow II.
Jr. is following big daddy’s footsteps; and you know where those lead.
Put on your leather helmet and dig that foxhole.
Amazing . . .
america1st (Diary) Wednesday, April 7th at 5:59PM EST (link). . . when it bends over like that, one can almost see the yellow streak on its back.
Logic in the mind of a liberal is like a snowflake in the desert: lost, alone and soon destroyed by a hostile environment.