Posted on 08/01/2014 1:47:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An independent panel appointed by the Pentagon and Congress said Thursday that President Obama’s strategy for sizing the armed services is too weak for today’s global threats.
The National Defense Panel called on the president to dump a major section of his 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and write a broader strategy that requires the military to fight on multiple fronts at once.
It also said the shrinking U.S. armed forces, which are being downsized to fit that strategy and budget cuts, is a “serious strategic misstep on the part of the United States.” The forces’ numbers spelled out in Mr. Obama’s QDR are “inadequate given the future strategic and operational environment.”
The warning comes as Mr. Obama is under criticism from many Republicans and some Democrats for his standoff policy toward Syria and his limited response to a June offensive by an al Qaeda offshoot that has gobbled up swaths of territory in Iraq....
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Well, duh. By design, no less.
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No doubt.
I question the idea that Obama has failed at implementing his Foreign Policy. He had a major setback in Egypt and Israel is working against him but everywhere else he is doing pretty well.
The Mideast is in turmoil.
Iran grows stronger by the day.
Radical Jihadis have taken control of large sections of Iraq.
Libya is threatened by Islamic radicals.
Al Qaeda is threatening to take control of Syria.
What’s not to like if you want the Caliphate to be reinstated, hopefully under Muslim brotherhood rule.
But still, as obvious as it may be, few understand that Obama and the democratic leadership are NWO agents.
But Reid keeps anything he doesn't like from being voted on, and there's always the veto pen. In practice, under this administration and to a degree never seen before in this country, Congress decides very little.
And so this is how he responds to the downing of MH17 and Russia’s insurgency in Ukraine —
Ok, take Reid at his word. That doesn’t change the GOP controlled congress from trying to implement anything and bring something to a vote. Have they?
I’ve heard there’s hundreds of bills that have been passed by the GOP controlled House that Reid will not even let the Senate consider. How much symbolism do you need?
Symbolism? The fact that we don’t even know the name of a bill that would prevent such downsizing. Nothing.
What I mean is that without some significant leadership on the GOP side, no one knows what they’ve done... it’s just peeing into the wind.
You’re upset we haven’t heard about some of these things. I’ll agree that’s a problem. But, without a big groundswell of public outrage, any GOP initiatives are going to be ignored.
Take the border situation, for example. Obama asked for a 3.7 billion dollar slush fund, with virtually no enforcement. The House is working on a 700 million bill which inlcudes enforcement, but is wishy-washy in some places. Obama loves this—even if the House passes something, it will be ignored by the Senate, which I hear is going into recess. He’ll say “Congress didn’t act, so I have to.” Or, the House bill will wind up in a conference with the Senate, and McCain et al will tack on a lot of amnesty provisions.
Is it any wonder I’m bummed?
The bottom line is that as a nation, we can no longer afford a military capable of policing the entire world. Our spending has been so spendthrift and gratuitous for so long that it must end for everything. And this means everything.
As far as the military goes, the reduction must be to the point where the military can only be used for things that are in our direct national interest. This means no more peacekeeping between willing belligerents; no more disaster relief; no more frivolous interventionism.
Military need, not military want.
If one foreign nation wants war with another foreign nation, and neither of them are our allies, then let the butchery commence, because it is not our problem. There is no “humanitarianism” unless somebody pays for it.
We only get a small portion of our oil from the Mideast. So if they want to slaughter each other, it is China’s dilemma because they get much of their oil from there.
We can no longer tremble at the idea of a “butterfly effect” turning a small war into a world war. We have to sit back and watch, and only intervene when it shows prospects of doing so.
Planned to allow for the muslim caliphate
Why use the word excellency?
There is nothing excellent about this move to downsize military or about Obama either.
How about the bottom of the snake pit?
It’s almost like Obama is throwing the game...
All these “Veteranos” coming into to the USA should make a dandy fighting force if needed. They have registered for the Selective Service right? Right?
Active Duty ping.
All Obama has is a big mouth. He is an agitator and corrupt as hell.
He thinks his big mouth and Alinsky tactics will work every time. It only does when people are too stupid to see that everything this administration does is built on lies and malicious activity all over the world. One of these days someone out there is going to take him to task, that means we are in trouble.
The Trojan Horse
Because if I called him exactly how I feel about him I’d be banned forever!
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