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Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis! Ollie is spot on, as usual. I called Boehner’s office today to register my outrage. Their response was that the courts would declare this unconstitutional (ho-hum). I insisted that they take my info and register my displeasure with that response. We can’t take 4 more years.
Obama, the second coming of....Jimmy Carter
Thanks for the post jaz. I certainly hope enough Americans learned the lesson about inspiring Leftist lies, and will be voting to rid us of these Leftist crackpots in November.
He is ensuring the votes of the Paulites, I think. Would not surprise me if Paul gave his acclamation to this move.
There is an interesting paradox in these cutbacks.
Europeans have long complained about “cowboy” America, that intervenes forcefully when a situation is starting to spiral out of control.
From the European point of view, it is much better to hold endless committee meetings, and try to bore aggressors and tyrants into capitulation, which not surprisingly, almost never happens.
Yet Europeans forget the long term consequences of their actions as well. By not intervening, for example, what will be their *only* means of response, if say, Europe is attacked with a nuclear missile?
Simple, to respond with their own nuclear missiles in a medium sized nuclear war.
So you have to ask yourself, what is better, to be a “cowboy”, or to procrastinate until it’s too late, then overreact?
Obama and many Democrats literally adore the Europeans’ rather silly philosophies and way of doing business, that they like, but never produces results like the way America does business. Yet Obama and many Democrats so *hate* how America does things that they tell themselves the European way *must* be better.
So with these massive cutbacks, they are forcing America to have a defense policy similar to Europe. That is, we will no longer be able to intervene early, and when we do intervene, it will have to be with far harsher, and less discriminating weapons. There will be *more* civilian casualties and more “collateral damage”.
Far less “hearts and minds”, and far more “kill them all and let their heathen gods sort them out.”
But that’s the European way, so it must be better, right?
so 1.1 trillion over ten years is 110 billion per year less after the yearly increases which means there will be no real decrease. Just odumbi trying to raise more cash from the left. Cut a buck here add a buck there. I wouldn’t mind some conventional arms reducing if we first could just nuke Iran.
Playing the proportional conventional response game and the surgical strike game has shown no positive results in decades. Islam is getting stronger.
Sooner or later they will nuke US.
Liberals always accuse other people of doing what they're about to.
Are we to believe that Obama will fight if the Chicoms move on the Spratlys in the S China Sea? Right. The Viets might fight, but Obama won't. Will we defend Formosa?Right. What we have now is the reprise of 1950. A vastly understrength navy and military, relying on technology not manpower and power projection. Then it was the A Bomb, now it's drones. The result then was Korea. 50K American dead and untold numbers of Koreans. My uncle spent 21 months in Manchuria as a guest of the ChiComs. Korea is something that should be mentioned often now.
bttt
Wonder when the unemployment numbers will go up.
a niggling little nag at the back of my fuzzy brain keeps goading me into believing this is a cover for any loss caused by repeal of DADT. i.e. if the corrupt CINC changes policy a strategic retreat from the two war policy of the past now—and insists on cutting our forces so finite funding can be redistributed to more entertaining exploits such as advancing the homosexual agenda—or implementing Shariah Law in America
if the Repeal of DADT were to cause any drop in recruiting /retention it would be harder to detect if the forces are ordered cut now.