Terrorist-in-Chief Barack
Obama
June 7, 2008
We face the prospect of electing
as President a man who has never spoken directly with General David Petraeus,
the U.S. commander who turned around the War in Iraq that has enabled
us to cripple Al Qaeda and pave the way for the emergence of an incipient
pro-American democracy in that country. Indeed, we face the prospect of
electing a man who, if he ever does meet with General Petraeus, probably
won't be able to look him in the eye, so devastating to U.S. security
interests are the plans that Barack Obama has for decimating our military.
Before Obama gets done with his plans to undermine our country's interests,
he'll be much more appropriately named Terrorist-in Chief of the United
States Army.
Obama's announced agenda of military
cuts and negotiating unequivocally with terrorist leaders of every stripe
brands him as someone only a card-carrying leftist Democrat could love.
Unfortunately, it's precisely those anti-American Dems who have forced
this candidate on the American people, and, like the tyrant-wannabes they
are, largely by overriding their party members' expressed desires, thanks
to Bob Beckel's insidiously anti-democratic Super Delegate strategy.
Obama's position seems to be "negotiate
from a position of weakness, or don't negotiate at all," because
among the first things on his announced agenda are withdrawing our military
forces from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately, and decimating our military
through drastic cuts in military spending.
Now, one of the difficulties we had
in responding to the terrorist attack that killed some 3,000 Americans
on our own soil on September 11, 2001, was that President George W. Bush's
predecessor, Bill Clinton, had himself gutted the military and weakened
us seriously during his presidency. It is widely acknowledged that Islamist
terrorists read the Clinton administration during the 1990s as "weak
on terror." Generally, Clinton's response to the terrorist incidents
that took American lives during his administration was to treat them as
requiring what can be characterized as "police action." There
is fairly broad agreement that the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers and
the Pentagon were even possible because Osama bin Laden viewed Clinton
(and, by extension, the United States itself) as not having the backbone
to respond aggressively and militarily to such an attack.
There was a great deal coming from
the Clinton Administration to reinforce that notion. During the 1990s,
President Clinton decimated America's military resources. Never mind that
his predecessor once removed, President Ronald Reagan, had demonstrated
that a strong military presence was the foundation for negotiations and
policies leading to American triumphs. And never mind that Russian President
Gorbachev had responded to Reagan's ringing "tear down this wall,"
backed by an upsurge in American military might during Reagan's administration,
by actually tearing down that wall.
The facts speak for themselves: During
the Clinton Administration, the number of active duty Army divisions was
reduced from 18 to 10. And Clinton reduced the number of active ships
from 586 in 1990 to 278 at the end of his term. In all, Clinton slashed
military spending on everything from planes to guns to bullets to ships
by nearly 90% during his terms in office.
Obama plans to follow the Clinton
blueprint for military weakness leading to terrorist attacks on the United
States to the letter. Obama has promised to "cut tens of billions
of dollars in wasteful [military] spending." He has also vowed to
"cut investments in unproven missile defense systems," to "slow
our development of future combat systems," and to "set a goal
for a world without nuclear weapons." He vows that the U.S., under
his watch, "will not develop new nuclear weapons," and that
he will "negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger
alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal."
This, coupled with holding talks
with every terrorist regime he can think of, will certainly put us well
on the path to another 9/11 attack. Our new Terrorist-in-Chief and his
anti-American cronies in the left wing of the Democrat Party will certainly
see to that.
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