It never fails. It never fails whenever a Democrat becomes President, his first target of opportunity (pun intended) is cutting the military. This goes as far back as John F. Kennedy, to Jimmy Carter (when we did not have enough trained personnel at times to send ships out to sea) and now on to President Obama or perhaps we should refer to him as King Obama with his recent power grab from the Senate. President Obama has ordered hundreds of billions in military cuts. These military cuts now make it impossible to fight an Atlantic and Pacific theater war at the same time as we have been able to do since WWII. With this President fixated on drones to do the fighting, he seems to forget that without human ground troops, you can not fight a truly offensive war. In other words, you can not carry the war to the enemy effectively with simply the use of drones. President Obama has let the success of drones against al qaeda in Afghanistan blind him. Sure, I recognize we live in a new age where high technology will take more and more of the work from our military. But, there is simply no substitute for boots on the ground. Drones can't take prisoners, drones can't take military positions and hold them. Don't think for a moment our enemies have not taken notice of these military cuts.
I can assure you Russia, China and, of course, terrorists around the world have cheered President Obama in his ongoing effort to completely gut the military machine that has made the USA the most feared military power on earth. I've seen this before. I recall another Democratic President, Jimmy Carter, whom Obama has been compared to before, doing the same thing to our military. It took President Ronald Reagan his entire first term to bring our military up to strength. Decimating the military is always a dream for the Democrats and the Progressive wing of that party. It appears that dream is close to being realized. President Obama has put this nation at risk with these draconian military cuts. Of course, since the House is controlled by Republicans, President Obama is going to have hell pushing these cuts down the throats of Conservative lawmakers. It will be another fight in which Obama will attempt to come across as trying to cut the debt by cutting back our ability to make war. He will try that. I suspect it will not work. Americans want to feel safe, even with a Democrat in the Oval Office. This will be fought tooth and nail, no doubt. What President Obama and Democrats in general have never understood is you take a chance of war breaking out when you are weak, not when you are militarily strong. Why do liberals find that concept so difficult to grasp? You negotiate from positions of strength, not weakness. Do you think China will listen to a weakened America in any dispute in Asia? Not likely, not likely at all.
