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Barack Obama has projected weakness on US national security

America’s First Post-National Security President



"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin From day number one Barack Obama has projected weakness on US national security.

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He reached out to Muslim nations, home to millions of people who want to kill us, saying: "We will reach out our hand, if you will unclench your fist." All we got in response was more black eyes and more dead Americans. He reached out to our European "allies" and apologized for our cowboy ways over the last eight years. When we asked them for support in better screening of passengers after this near miss, with the exception of Denmark, we got "We'll think about it." A few have since complied, many are still thinking. He reached out to our terrorist enemies themselves, ordering the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the release of even more of its detainees, the end of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Mirandizing of KSM and other high-value detainees, trying them in civilian court over the objections of millions of people and giving them the same legal and Constitutional rights as US citizens. Barack Obama campaigned in opposition to nearly all of former-President Bush's national security policies. Upon assuming office, he systematically dismantled many of them, along with the rest of the American economic and social structure. If he thought those security measures weren't adequate, he had every opportunity to restructure them or adopt new ones. Instead, he chose to spend trillions of dollars and an entire year ramming a massively unpopular piece of crap that nobody wants through Congress and to attack his political opponents with more zeal than the terrorists now bringing the fight to us.

We're financially unstable, politically divided, collectively distracted

Obama and the mindset he has brought to Washington have put us in a perfect, reactive posture to be attacked again. We're financially unstable, politically divided, collectively distracted and despite multiple layers of technology and security measures, completely unable to stop a 23-year old foreigner with known terrorist ties from boarding an aircraft. If Obama can't stop Reality TV wannabes from crashing his State Dinners, what makes you think he can protect an entire country? Contrary to the twisted assertions of Obama and other Democrats, the Christmas Day terrorist attack was not an "attempted" act of terror, rather a successful one. While it did not bring down the airplane nor kill anyone, it did strike fear into people, it did affect worldwide commerce and it did result in a security clampdown on global air travel. But, it didn't really make America any safer. The immediate response to the Underwear-Borne Improvised Explosive Device was and continues to be an over-reaction. Every single unruly passenger, honey-filled soda bottle or lingering kiss has literally cleared sterile areas, diverted aircraft or scrambled fighter escorts. Rather than punish a TSA screener who abandons his post, they throw the book at an offender who had no criminal intent. Once again, an alert member of the traveling public was the last line of defense, while the federal government was distracted. Take it from someone who knows: Technology is only a tool. Our government has acknowledged it needs to be right 100% of the time, while the terrorists only need to be right once. Even with the massive bureaucracy they've created, all of the laws and technology and the Eagle-eye of the TSA, the government has decided that it can only prevent about 1/4 of the "major" criminals from boarding and aircraft. Unlike the lukewarm respondents of various recent polls whose opinion shift like Barack Obama's priorities, I have always been and always will be an unsympathetic, unapologetic and ardent supporter of the harsh interrogation of captured enemies who most likely possess intelligence related to further attacks that could kill my countrymen, as well as all manner of profiling to prevent mass American death. Those who argue against profiling say it would cast the net too widely. I say the net is already cast too wide without it. To oppose profiling is to willfully ignore the obvious. To support it is not racist, discriminatory, partisan, nor political. It is patriotic. And, it's the only way for America to defeat this enemy without sacrificing those non-negotiable liberties that our Founders fought so hard to establish for us and our descendants.

This administration is woefully ignorant of the threat we now face. Janet Napolitano prefers to call acts of terrorism "man-made disasters."

This generation of political leaders is woefully ignorant of the massive assaults they are conducting upon our Constitutional rights and freedoms. More debt, more laws, more technology and more screening of everybody, or worse, random screening of a population will not detect, interdict, nor prevent terrorist attacks. But, those measures will play into the terrorists hands as a propaganda victory, will limit the rights and freedom of movement of innocent people and will negatively affect commerce. This administration is woefully ignorant of the threat we now face. Janet Napolitano prefers to call acts of terrorism "man-made disasters." Barack Obama is now talking tough, but why is it that this man had to be dragged kicking and screaming to get to where most Americans stood on Christmas Day? He first characterized that attack as the work of an isolated extremist and two weeks later, after incrementally tougher use of language, is finally acknowledging the scope and seriousness of the threat. But, simply calling it a war isn't enough. Unless he stops taking pot shots with Predators, goes on the offensive and mercilessly treats this enemy as the lethal threat that they are, instead of leveling the playing field by giving them legal rights, this is a war he will lose.


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Jayme Evans -- Bio and Archives

Jayme Evans is a veteran of the United States Navy, military analyst, conservative columnist and an advocate and voice for disabled and other veterans. He has served for many years as a Subject Matter Expert in systems software testing, and currently serves as a technical lead in that capacity. He has extensively studied amateur astronomy and metallurgy, as well as military and US history.


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