Like DPRK Missile, Obama’s Military Career a Dud

As the most powerful leader on Earth, a president must wear many hats. And while Chief Executive appears to be the toughest responsibility, considering the state of our economy, I believe that Barack Obama's biggest opportunity to screw things up is when he is donning the hat of Commander-In-Chief. As such, his primary mission is to ensure the well-being of his forces, and by extension, the safety of the country they protect. But recent actions he's taken call the success of that mission into question.

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Whenever and wherever Barack Obama has engaged in military matters, whether it be socially engineering acceptance of military homosexual cohabitation, imploring world leaders for military help in Afghanistan, speaking to veterans groups about reforming military medicine or tweaking the procurement and budget processes, his actions project inexperience and misplaced priorities; priorities that will result of weakening military recruiting, retention, end-strength, technology, superiority and morale. The repeal of the ban on openly gay service still hangs like an albatross around the military's neck. As I have said before, gay people already serve in the nation's military. What the proponents of legislation repealing the ban want is societal and military acceptance of their sexual orientation. Allowing this to go forward would have disastrous consequences. Perception is everything when you command the world's most powerful military. At the G-20 Summit, it wasn't enough for Barack Obama to be apologetic for American arrogance, he had to be submissive. He has embarrassed himself and this entire nation by bending himself over at the waist in a full bow to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, lowering his head nearly to the King's waist in what could only be perceived throughout much of the world as a sure sign of weakness and submission. Disabled veterans across the country were recently outraged when learning of a plan that Obama floated to have us pay for treatment of our service-connected disabilities. Notwithstanding the thunderous applause and standing ovation by veterans groups that Nancy Pelosi received when she announced that Obama had reconsidered this outrage, I am not convinced. If Barack Obama doesn't have enough respect for those of us who have spilled our blood and lost our limbs to explain to us in his own words why he changed his mind; or more importantly, why he even considered this plan in the first place, then he is not a Commander-In-Chief, but simply a wog; uninitiated and inexperienced; in charge, but unworthy of the loyalty and respect of the nations' veterans. Joe Biden warned us during the 2008 campaign to "gird our loins" because Barack Obama would be tested internationally. North Korea's missile launch provided a critical test and Obama failed, telegraphing to the little dictator in North Korea that he was all talk. In the week before the North's provocative missile launch over Japan, Obama said that the international community would take appropriate steps to deal with any threat, yet said we would not shoot down the missile. Once again a Democrat resorts to harsh language deal with a dictatorship. North Korea is known as the "Hermit Kingdom". A kingdom led by a short little narcissistic punk with bad hair who has completely isolated his people and allows virtually no contact with the outside world. State-run media is their only source of information. They are already under sanctions - and have been in one form or another since the 1950. They have also endured several famines in recent history. They are immune to sanctions and there are no diplomatic tools left; no carrots, only sticks. Nothing short of a complete naval blockade would have any impact at all and Obama has no stomach for that, making his position on North Korea a dangerous one, full of nothing but empty rhetoric and Kim Jong Il knows it. Kim's glorified firecracker appears to have been a dud, so there was no practical opportunity for a US warship to take a shot at it. But had it been successful, Obama previously ruled out a US intercept, opting for the most feared punishment of rogue dictatorships; international sanctions, despite no international consensus for them. Whether it be with North Korea, Iran or any other nation that threatens us, Democrat Barack Obama is simply repeating the same mistakes as his predecessors Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter; telegraphing no stomach for military action of any kind and spewing empty threats of UN Security Council action that will one day be met with violence by our emboldened enemies.