…so a whole new level of violence can spread around the world.

So how long before someone who has been catapulted, by whatever mechanism, especially someone with a family connection to Islam, will comprehend the analogy of the “strong horse” from the Islamic viewpoint?

He speaks of the US Military as tho it is some out of control make work governmental organization, and not the vehicle by which we “provide for the common defense.” He wants to bring home the troops, yet not all that long ago, he said the service needed to be enlarged. I’m confused, either they are already too bloated and a waste of tax dollars, or we need to increase the payroll and associated support systems and programs, in addition to placing a future burden on the economy of military retirement and disability payments.

Obama is actively sowing the seeds of the most difficult recruiting environment in my life time, worse than even the Vietnam era, when at least the President had respect for those would would serve. It is likely, when (not if) faced with “sending the Army back to Iraq,” that he will need the Congress to re-institute the draft. That will make for interesting politics, when even wild eyed anti-war men will now be “eligible” for “active character building experiences.”

Not to mention the logistical lift capacity required to re-constitute a major war-fighting capability within Iraq, once we have departed. That discussion of his abject inability to grasp that there is no magic wand we wave and heavy military equipment and the support infrastructure appears where we desire it. Had he bothered to follow the actual battle fought from Kuwait to the Northern borders of Iraq in 2003, he might have a small amount of appreciation for the effort that would be required to do it all over again. Then consider doing it with out paying for improvements to the services.

Top off the above issues with his resistance to the FISA exempting TelComms from liability. Recall the exceptional critisism of the CIA, FBI and DIA in the 9/11 Commission report, and we had a FISA law that allowed us to listen in, with the aid of the telephone companies. Project yourself into the future and try to comprehend something like this from a future report of a WMD attack within our borders:

Executive Summary:

In the opinion of this panel, the total lack of cooperation of the telecomminications companies was the a key factor in the inability of the President and the FBI to receive the intelligence required to make the decisions necessary to prevent the detonation of the low level atomic weapon on Wall Street on July 4th, 2009. The FISA legislation of early 2009, which removed the liability protection for privately held companies, created an almost total blackout of substantive intercepts, that could have allowed the specific intelligence and warning indicators supporting preemptive actions to eliminate the threat.

There was no redundant COMINT capability within any law enforcement or military agencies capable of filling the gap left by the pull out of major firms from their prior agreements to assist the FBI, CIA and DIA, thereby allowing al-Qaeda operatives to communicate with their logistical and technical contacts within the US at will, free of any fear of the detection of their activities.

As we get closer to the actual General Election, will he speak more derisively of those who have left their families, some of whom have not returned alive, or intact, so he and his wife can finally be proud of America, as though there is nothing else to be proud of in this great nation? He will increasingly attack those who support the protection of companies who assist the Government in protecting us, yet he is effectively deafening himself, isolating himself from the very information he needs to make correct decisions. Interestingly enough, he acts as though President Bush lied about WMD in Iraq, yet, if Obama gets his way, he will have almost no way of knowing what any terrorists are doing, especially when our allies have been threatened with attacks for not doing things his way. That, in fact, leads to another paradox: We have lost our “likability” around the world. Does Obama really think our allies will take kindly to him dictating to them as to how they should handle their affairs, with a veiled threat of military action? No, they will despise us even more than now as they think we have over-reached our role outside our borders.

The impetus for this stream of consciousness was triggered by this, unfortunately probably right on target analysis, saying, if elected, an Obama Presidency will lead to increased levels of bloodshed, not less:

The prospects for an Obama presidency (blogs the Daily Mail’s, Don Surber) has international newspaper columnists worried.

Add Greg Sheridan, foreign editor of the Australian, to the list of members of the foreign press who worry about a President Obama.

In a column in the Australian, “This is no time for a celebrity in the Oval Office,” Sheridan reasoned that far from calming the Middle East, a President Obama might trigger a a new Middle East war.

Sheridan joins Gerard Baker of the Times of London and Gabor Steingart of Der Spiegel in warning Americans that this is not Amateur Hour when it comes to foreign policy.

The civilized world looks to America for leadership and intestinal fortitude when it comes to standing up to evil — not fealty and Kumbaya when dealing with tyranny in the world. Heed the warning.
[…]

We know Osama bin Laden’s speech writers take their text from the MSM. IN this case, they will be taking their lead about what is being said of Obama: He does not want to kinetically engage the actual enemy, he wants to talk with them. He wants to militarily strike those countries who have supported us, albeit imperfectly, in the GWoT. I get this image of a man castrating himself in front of his adversaries, and then trying to tell us how he can protect us. Sorry about the explicit imagery, but he says he will turn the friends against us, will “asking” our enemies to join with us, the ones who have a small lexicon, and the communication method of choice happens to be the use of explosives and large, edged weapons in the taking of innocent life.

A summary? Obama’s own policies will put us at risk from almost even avenue in international relations, and he believes his ways will do the opposite. He is too immature to comprehend the danger ahead. His supporters are equally complicit in setting us on a path of destruction, and his economic polices to cripple us aren’t even my area of understanding to address.

My prayers will be for the country to see the path of very real disaster we can choose to take, or not, depending on what legacy we desire to leave to our children and theirs. We need a strong horse now. The Islamic violence lovers hope we do not choose one. That, in itself is telling. 5 years from now will be too late for too many people, in our country and aboard.

Based on the remarks of Obama in the last week, I have no confidence in his ability to properly wield the most powerful military force in history and less in his ability to select the men and women who will advise him in such matters, as his “filters” will project his lack of understanding of the world as it is onto those who he thinks are themselves knowledgeable at their potential appointments in the very top levels of Government.

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