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“If you are effectively taking the stick option off the table, then what are you left with?” said Andrew C. Kuchins

Sanctions?

We are in a very, very dangerous situation now, and it will affect our Dollar, our markets, and our economy.

Hagel (and Obama by fiat) announced to the world how we were going to gut our military EVEN FURTHER this week.

Morale of the DoD is in the toilet. The uniformed military is facing massive layoffs and firings, cuts to their pay, cuts to their housing allowances, cuts to the benefits, and massive hikes in their health care premiums. The civilian DoD force has been furloughed twice in 10 months and been hit with pay freezes for years, not to mention hiring freezes to replace workers that quit out of disgust. For instance, thousands of DoD doctors and nurses have quit in the last year, and they are not being replaced.

Military members and veterans watched in horror as Chuck Hagel nodded in agreement with Paul Ryan/Patty Murray's legislation to cut their pensions. It was only public outrage and courageous efforts by military families that overturned this. But those cuts signaled just the beginning. And Washington expects our military to continue to respond as it has in the past, despite being thrown to the wolves.

Sequestration cuts of $600 Billion over ten years are still in effect, which are on top of two previous cuts by Obama of $330 Billion and $487 Billion. The Tea Party applauded and supported those cuts, because they seem to want to grasp any rope to cut spending, as opposed to thinking this through.

Our geopolitcal and economic strength, and the US Dollar's status as the World's Reserve Currency, was always tied to our military might and prestige. There are few in Washington who understand this. America is going down the tubes, and fast.

The WaPo chief White House correspondent, Scott Wilson, has affirmed that Sarah Palin’s 2008 warning has come true “according to analysts”:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ukraine-crisis-tests-obamas-foreign-policy-focus-on-diplomacy-over-military-force/2014/03/01/c83ec62c-a157-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html

“Now Ukraine has emerged as a test of Obama’s argument that, far from weakening American power, he has enhanced it through smarter diplomacy, stronger alliances and a realism untainted by the ideology that guided his predecessor.

“It will be a hard argument for him to make, analysts say.

“A president who has made clear to the American public that the ‘tide of war is receding’ has also made clear to foreign leaders, including opportunists in Russia, that he has no appetite for a new one. What is left is a vacuum once filled, at least in part, by the possibility of American force.”

Looks like the WaPo news editors can’t disguise their contempt for Barry any longer, if they let a story like this through!

He’s not even using the “diplomatic’ route because he has absolutely no support among other countries. A phone call from the clueless, condescending idiot in the White House, who spends all of his time seeking and destroying what he perceives as his domestic enemies, is not diplomacy.

Obama should have called for a meeting with the UK and Russia, since these three countries had a memorandum, signed in the 90s, to guarantee Ukrainian borders. He should also have called a Nato meeting and should even have called on the UN to get involved (although since Russia controls the UN, that might not have been much help).

However, Obama is either despised or regarded as a laughing stock by the whole world; he has turned our allies against us (the UK, for example) and has emboldened our enemies, who no longer see us as having the moral force or even the basic military force and resolution to back up anything we say.

Essentially, he has destroyed the US as a world power. Russia is the one surviving world power, and they know it.

What US military force?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3129076/posts

It’s an Obama World… Gays Perform First Drag Show on US Military Base (Video)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/03/its-an-obama-world-gays-perform-first-drag-show-on-us-military-base-video/ ^ | 3/3/14 | Jim Hoft

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It’s an Obama world… Gays and lesbians performed the first official drag show on a US military base this week. The Week reported:

The recently formed OutServe-SLDN chapter, a nonprofit advocacy group for the army’s LGBT community, sponsored the event. This Week reported:

Troops based at the Kadena Air Base in Japan know how to party. On Saturday, six gay and straight service members applied some of their finest makeup and lip synced to “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” in what is believed to be first drag queen and king show on an American military base. The show was thrown in support for the base’s recently formed OutServe-SLDN chapter, a nonprofit advocacy group for the army’s LGBT community.