Posted on 02/27/2014 2:57:14 PM PST by SkyPilot
Barack Hussein Obama seeks to use the teachings of ancient Chinese military genius Sun Tzu, as described in his famous quote: One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the enemys military without battle is the most skillful.
The question is: Are we going to let him?
Recently, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that he is proposing huge cutbacks in the military, especially with regard to Army personnel . The set-up for this fall included prematurely withdrawing from Iraq and announcing that all U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan would end by December 2014.
We still have troops in Germany, Japan and Italy over 68 years after the end of World War II, although Obama removed the last of our Abrams M1-A2 main battle tanks from Germany last spring. The effect of removing troops from Afghanistan would be a reduction in our capability to project our power and influence in defense of our country and our best interests in the Middle East. That is a void none of our friends or allies will fill, and the vacuum created by our withdrawal will collect only those who can and will do us harm.
The most recent proposed cuts announced by Hagel amount to a gutting of an operational force to a level that would take at least a decade to rebuild, if that. I say if that, because the proposed cuts to future soldier benefits will help discourage the best and brightest from giving a damn about joining. If they survive their tour they might have to end up living on food stamps, like thousands of Army privates with families do today, or, if they dont survive, their families and spouses will have crumbs to live on....
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Did anyone catch why he wants this, by the way?
Obama should be in jail!
It HAS to stop - now!
No more defense cuts. Enough.
The military has sustained three consecutive massive cuts, all supposed to be spread out over 10 years. These started in 2009, and now have all overlapped one another:
1. Obama cut defense by $330 Billion in 2009 and diverted the money to his "stimulus" criminal enterprise
2. Obama cut defense by another $487 Billion in 2012, and according to the Weekly Standard, Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, and Ryan were "secretly" on board
3. Sequestration cut another $650 Billion from defense as it must endure 50% of all cuts despite being ~17% of the Federal budget
Now, we have more cuts. Immediately after Hagel announced the further gutting of the military, Obama announced $300 Billion in new "shovel ready" jobs through "highway spending."
Amid military cuts, Obama urges $300B for roads and railways
STOP the cuts to our military and cuts to military families. Now.
This is a power shift away from the military, TO our militarized police.
Hagel is a drunk.
This is good for the citizens. If the military is still on the payroll, many of them will side with the people who sign the paychecks. (See Wehrmacht for details)
So, turning them out with all their training and experience into a population with more weaponry than all the armies on Earth just adds to our ranks and depletes the Tyrant’s ranks.
Red Army.
Think, Dr. Zhivago, and the Communist field commander Strelnikov and his armored train and firing squads.
That's because RiNO's tend to be "wooden-gun Republicans" a la the 1920's. They want to cut Defense budgets so they can reduce [corporate, of course] taxes.
Remember that George W. Bush, during Campaign 2000, rightly excoriated Clinton's degradation of preparedness and drawdowns of ordnance stocks and training time in order to fund operations in Clinton's air war against Serbia.
Then, after the Bush Administration (43) entered office, Donald Rumsfeld sent up a DoD budget that made good the Clinton shortfalls by adding $60 billion, mostly for equipment (replacements, new systems like the Crusader long-range, super-accurate SP gun system).
Bush sent Rumsfeld's eggs back and passed the word to all commands to hold the line on Defense appropriations. Then he sent along a big $60 billion carve-out (formerly known as "impounding" and redirecting funds) for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, aka "Star Wars"). That's a downswing from his campaign promises of about $120 billion, in available Defense funding.
Bottom line, until 9/11, Dubya came into office behaving like a Cheneyesque, Coolidgesque Fortune 500-loving "wooden gun" Republican President determined to send a "peace dividend" to all the blue-haired ladies who tell the top echelons of the Republican Party what to do, and have documentably done so for 75 years.
I mention it, because people forget.
So I am having a hard time distinguishing fact form fiction. Many Military officers have been removed for strange reasons. One guy says there have been over 260 removed without a single book or explanation given from the victims. As many as 30 bankers have bit the dust so to speak. Missing AZ nuke explodes in the Mediterranean. Has anyone heard of David Hodges?
The effect of removing troops from Afghanistan would be a reduction in our capability to project our power and influence in defense of our country and our best interests in the Middle East.
In other words, removing troops from Afghanistan would reduce our capability to fight wars that we have no business fighting in the first place. This is a terrible example to use.
For that matter, what exactly are "our best interests in the Middle East?"
... the proposed cuts to future soldier benefits will help discourage the best and brightest from giving a damn about joining.
Too late for that, dude. This is the new feminist/homosexual military. I would have hoped that the "best and brightest" vacated the armed forces a long time ago.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
This is what Dinesh D’Sousa said he would do in his documentary 2016.
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He’s a muzzie lovin commie. He wants to be President for life. He’s only got 3 years to make his move.
I listen to him every Sunday night (and read his articles).
There is NOTHING unbelieveable about this regime-—I’ve aged 30 years since 2009.
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