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Posted on 02/25/2014 12:41:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In remarks today, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said U.S. global military dominance can “no longer be taken for granted.” He said this even as he was in the process of announcing that the Obama administration plans to shrink the United States Army to its smallest force since before the World War II buildup. (For context, the Army will go from a post-September 11 peak of 570,000 to between 440,000 and 450,000, the smallest Army since 1940.)
Max Boot does an excellent job laying out the problems with this proposal here and here. I’d simply add that the fact that American military dominance can no longer be taken for granted is not problematic for someone of Barack Obama’s worldview. In fact, he views the weakening of American power as a downright positive thing, as a contributor to peace and stability, and a means through which America will be more respected and loved in the world.
Mr. Obama is wrong on every count. But in a sense it’s not at all surprising that the president would hold these views, given the academic and intellectual milieu he comes from. Liberals like Mr. Obama don’t view America as particularly exceptional. They think “leading from behind” is just what America ought to do and where America ought to be. Mr. Obama, then, isn’t any different than your run-of-the-mill man of the left.
What is different is that Barack Obama isn’t on the faculty of Columbia; he’s commander in chief of the United States. Which means that his misguided views are downright pernicious. And for all the damage the president is doing on the domestic side–and I would not want to underestimate it for a moment–it may be the harm he’s inflicting on America in foreign policy and national security is deeper, broader, and more durable.
More than any president in my lifetime, Barack Obama has damaged virtually everything he’s touched. When it comes to American interests, he’s a one-man wrecking ball.
If there WAS some other enemy engineering the destruction of America from within, what would he do differently?
Yep. Catalogued here daily.
Obama warned us of his plans. Why should anyone be surprised?
What a difference between him and Putin.
I felt envy at seeing Putin’s pride for his country at the Olympics and how he wants to advance it in the world stage given the pathetic dismantler and apologizer-in-chief we have in the white hut.
What it’s taken over 200 years to build Obama is destroying in less than 8 years.
Shocking what mass ignorance, greed, self-dealing, and outright malice by those in power have done. Where are the people in D.C. who ought to be resigning in protest??
Chuck Hagel, John Roberts, most of Congress, all the czars and cabinet, the bureaucrats...traitors are everywhere.
I wouldn’t give credit to Obama for engineering anything. He couldn’t engineer a pit latrine. Barry is the public spokesman for men behind the scenes and their plan decades in the making.
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It’s exactly what they mean.
Paraphrased
Ann Coulter Goes There: If Obama Were Born In Another Country...
Listen to the excerpted version.
And the answer is ........
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance, and produce the effects, of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.
Edward Gibbons, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
yep
But [Rome’s] fall was announced by a clearer omen than the flight of vultures: the Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.”
Gibbons, Decline and Fall
I agree, it was said so many times but people women got caught up in the next phony savior.
I guess so, but Wehner did his part in the last administration to make this one possible.
And all in accordance with the plan.
That is the question I always ask. Answer - nothing.
I am wondering when it will become official......The United States of Kenya.
It took him this long to see it?
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