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President Obama came into office believing that the United States should immediately withdraw from Iraq, talk our way into victory in Afghanistan, and close Guantanamo Bay.\u00a0\u00a0 He also thought he could borrow money and spend our way into prosperity, but that is another subject.\u00a0 All of these goals were incredibly na\u00efve.\u00a0 But Obama had so little experience that he literally believed he would speak and everyone would think, \u201cOh, now I understand.\u201d\u00a0 This would result in a prosperous economy, world peace, the end of terrorism and salvation from global warming.\u00a0 Unfortunately, he made some important decisions based on this na\u00efve world view that are now doing grave harm to our national security.<\/p>\n

Prior to Obama, every recent U.S. President asked one question immediately whenever there was a trouble spot anywhere in the world:\u00a0 \u201cwhere are my carriers?\u201d\u00a0 Obama does not ask that because he knows where these carriers are located.\u00a0 They are in port waiting for repairs he has not funded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.defensestudies.org\/cds\/where-are-our-carriers-increasingly-at-home\/<\/a><\/p>\n

It was bad enough that Obama spent most of his first year in office traveling the globe apologizing for our excessive use of force by other, less brilliant, Presidents.\u00a0 But in addition to that, his actions have decimated our military to the extent that we couldn\u2019t respond even if he did accidentally wake up with a backbone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

http:\/\/oldnfo.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/where-are-our-carriers.html<\/a><\/p>\n

In my personal opinion, which is very similar to that of the oath of office taken by the President of the United States, the primary duty of a President is to preserve, protect and defend this country.\u00a0 Obama probably believes that as well, but he apparently does not feel that having a seven-ocean navy is essential to our defense.\u00a0\u00a0 Obama thought he was a uniquely gifted person who truly understood the world.\u00a0 He thought all of the world\u2019s problems would be solved by merely putting someone with his great intellect in charge.\u00a0 He was the one we\u2019ve been waiting for.\u00a0 He viewed our military strength as an inconvenient burden.\u00a0 In April, 2010, Obama said this in a speech:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower,<\/span> and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them,\u201d Obama said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Now we are facing problems over the world and the question is no longer whether or not we should flex our military power but rather whether we have any real power available to use.\u00a0 Of course the main stream media will blame this on overextending ourselves in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that is somewhat true.\u00a0 But the primary problem is that we apparently have a President who considers having a seven-ocean navy as an unnecessary expense item.<\/p>\n

This is not unique to Obama.\u00a0 Many leading Republicans were anti-military and extremely isolationist prior to World War II.\u00a0 There were a lot of well-intended people who naively thought reducing the size of our military would reduce the chances of getting caught up in another war.\u00a0 Sadly, they were very wrong.\u00a0 Instead, the lack of military power and quick response to people like Hitler and Mussolini resulted in World War II.\u00a0 History has shown us that failure to respond quickly, when dealing with these kinds of threats, just increases the ultimate cost of dealing with them later.\u00a0 The real issue is not how Obama is handling Egypt and Libya, but rather that now the entire world knows they can challenge us with impunity.\u00a0 Not only do we have a President who is incapable of providing leadership, he has decimated our military capacity to the extent that one questions whether he even could respond.\u00a0\u00a0 In the meantime, our national security is being \u201ccarriered\u201d away.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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