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God bless you, sir! You KNOW precisely what depravity libs in the White House will practice to hurt this nation.
Posted on 09/05/2010 12:22:24 PM PDT by STARWISE
Robert “Buzz” Patterson is the author of the new book, “Conduct Unbecoming: How Barack Obama is Destroying the Military and Endangering Our Security,” to be released on Sept. 7.
During his 20 years on active duty, the former lieutenant colonel participated in combat operations in Grenada, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, and Bosnia, and as senior military aide to President Bill Clinton, was responsible for the “Nuclear Football.” Since retiring from the Air Force in 2001, Patterson has authored two New York Times bestsellers, “Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America’s National Security” and “Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undercut Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and Jeopardize Our Security.”
Patterson recently agreed to answer eight questions from The Daily Caller about his new book:
1) Why did you decide to write this book?
I wrote my first book, “Dereliction of Duty,” detailing my experiences working as a military aide at the side of President Bill Clinton as a warning from a commissioned military officer to his nation.
I was an eyewitness to the contempt the Clintons had for the military, his indifference to national security issues except insofar as they served his own political and personal purposes and his failures to accept his responsibilities as our commander in chief. As I outlined in “Dereliction of Duty,”
I lay the blame for the attacks of September 11, 2001 fully at the feet of Bill Clinton, and I felt an obligation to tell that story.
Now, I see history repeating itself in the presidency of Barack Obama. Only this time the misconduct and the dereliction of duty of Obama and his administration could lead to far worse devastation than we suffered in the wake of Clinton and 9/11.
I wrote my new book – “Conduct Unbecoming: How Barack Obama is Destroying the Military and Endangering Our Security” – because I’ve seen this all before only this time it’s worse, much worse.
Our nation and our military deserve so much more, so much better. I believe Obama’s foreign policy record so far and his agenda for the future are extremely deleterious to our national security, and need to be reversed in the elections of November 2010 and 2012.
2) Did you expect President Obama to do better on national security matters than you believe he has to date?
I certainly hoped he would be better then he has been to date. From my perspective as a military analyst, it seems that a unifying theme of Democrat Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, is a consistent underestimating of foreign policy dangers.
Obama appears to believe that by the sheer force of his own personality and his serial apologies for the behavior of his predecessor he can encourage our enemies to drop their hostility towards us. So far, that doesn’t seem to be working and he seems to be failing miserably.
In fact, if anything, his performance to date seems to have only increased our enemies’ contempt for us as is seen in the dismissive reactions of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.
I also hoped he would be a strong commander in chief, a leader worthy of our military, and one that not only empathized with our servicemen and women but actually understood them.
Quite frankly, to this point he doesn’t seem to have a clue as to what it means to lead the nation or our armed forces during wartime. In fact, he is only the second American president in the last sixty years not to have served in the armed forces, the other being Bill Clinton, and it shows.
He’s a politician, a “community organizer,” who now commands the greatest and most powerful military in the world and he seems very uncomfortable with that responsibility.
As someone who used to train Air Force officers, I would judge him, from his public record, as someone unqualified to command even a squadron of a few hundred airmen – that is if he’d ever considered serving his nation as an Air Force officer, which of course, he never did.
He’s in way over his head and it shows. When the airmen and the privates in the trenches can see it, and they do, he has some serious leadership challenges that, so far, he has failed to meet.
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God bless you, sir! You KNOW precisely what depravity libs in the White House will practice to hurt this nation.
** Ping!
“Well, let’s be clear here. Originally, General McChrystal and now General David Petraeus, who I have immense respect for, are military commanders personally appointed by Barack Obama to run the war in Afghanistan.
Either Obama is the commander in chief or he’s not. In the chain of command, ultimately, the buck must stop at his desk in the Oval Office.
When we have troops patrolling in dangerous zones in Afghanistan without bullets in their rifles or U.S. Air Force AC-130 Spectre gunships patrolling the skies at night (which is their mission and protects them from anti-aircraft attack) prohibited from shooting at enemy targets because of an exaggerated fear of hitting civilians, we are sentencing our military to death and defeat.
Obama’s Pentagon has even created a medal for our troops who choose not to fire their weapons.
This politically correct approach to war is killing our troops and will, if left unchanged, result in our defeat and the further emboldening of the ideological enemy we face around the world.”
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God bless & protect our brave troops.
a must-buy and must-read for sure!!
Buzz Patterson is a national treasure
a tragedy that this book is even needed
The Iranians are paying the Taliban a bounty for killing our troops & using IEDs’ with not even a peep from Obamao and the Congress.They should be put on notice that all command / control and government apparatus will be systematically destroyed beginning in 48 hrs unless the Iranians butt out of Iraq & Afghanistan.
Sure is .. and the evidence grows more obvious
every day.
Did that "medal" ever get approved? The last I heard, it was under consideration but hadn't yet been finalized.
And since Obama is even weaker, and has no loyalty even to the United States, let alone our military, I expect this one to be even more scathing.
Thanks for adding the link. I see I was pinged to the thread but I didn’t see the ping. I think I’ll bump the thread to the top.
Looks like a book to buy, doesn’t it?
!!!!!
bfl
As Buzz Patterson said, BO is a community organizer and is in way over his head. Can’t argue with that.
“we are sentencing our military to death and defeat.”
Actually, he - the obamanation - is, as the media and demscum cheer on. And they could not care less. Hence the utter lack of coverage of military deaths in theater and their skyrocketting rate.
THREAD BUMP.
“we are sentencing our military to death and defeat.”
Actually, he - the obamanation - is, as the media and demscum cheer on. And they could not care less. Hence the utter lack of coverage of military deaths in theater and their skyrocketting rate.
good idea
BTTT
Bumping Back To The Top
Conduct Unbecoming:
How Barack Obama is
Destroying the Military
and Endangering Our Security
by Robert "Buzz" Patterson
Kindle Edition
Unabridged CD Audiobook
Blackstone Digital edition (Nov 2010)
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