The troubling aspect of Putin's obstructionism over, for example, Iran is that it is coupled with an attempt to arrange a multilateral front against the United States involving China, the Marxists of Latin America, and Islamicists.
With respect to the need to restore the American Armed Forces to former more robust state of readiness, I agree completely but whatever is done must be done with due concern for the fiscal condition of the country. Further, it must be done with a view to two or three future generations of weapons systems which we must get absolutely right in view of our constrained resources. That means the militarization of space and, here again, Obama has taken the country in precisely the wrong direction.
Converting NASA to a Madison Avenue public relations vehicle for improving relations with the Muslim world will hardly enable us to survive cyber and space wars with the Chinese.
