Note: You might want to start at the Barack
Obama Index Page, especially
if you arrived here by using a search engine.
This page is a byproduct of another nearby page
about President Obama's Intentions for America.
It is sad to see someone in the White House who has such obvious contempt for American traditions, and
especially for free-market capitalism and individual liberty.
Civilization requires
deterrence. [Scroll down] Abroad, Donald Trump restored the strategic deterrence lost by his
predecessor. Barack Obama had dismissed the murderous ISIS as "JVs" — and they thrived. He shrugged
when China stole territory in the South China sea to build military bases. He dismantled missile defense in Europe to
coax Vladimir Putin to behave during his own 2012 reelection campaign. Obama loudly announced redlines in Syria while
never intending to enforce them. He gave the Taliban back their incarcerated terrorist leaders in exchange for the
return of the American deserter Bowe Bergdahl. And he sent the Iranians nocturnal cash to coax them to conclude an
appeasing Iran Deal. Aggression followed as U.S. deterrence eroded.
5
Bad Arguments for Cutting U.S. Defense Spending. [#1] "The United States spends more than the next seven
countries combined." Statistically true, but not particularly helpful. The United States also spends more on health
care than the next nine countries combined. In 2012, Americans accounted for about one-third of the world's total spending
on entertainment. We're a big, rich country — with a lot to protect and a host of vital interests around the
globe. More important is the trend in defense spending. The same data set that pegs U.S. spending at
more than the next seven countries today shows that we spent more than the next thirteen countries combined in 2011.
Our investment in national security compared with the rest of the world has dropped dramatically over the last four years.
Obama's Plan
to Destroy the US Military. Obama hates the American military only a bit less than he does America itself, and
regards it as the agent of massive US crimes over our entire history. Hence, his real goal in "reforms" like this is to
degrade American military might as much as possible. An army of women is by definition an ineffective fighting force,
and since Obama wants to render our nation (ours, not his) helpless and defenseless, he sees this as an excellent way to go
about it.
Timely news and commentary:
The
Destructive Generation — Proving America's Weakest Link. The U.S. military
is almost unrecognizable to that of just a few decades ago. It was humiliated in Kabul.
In surrealistic fashion, it abandoned some $50 billion in lethal weaponry to the
Taliban — along with our NATO allies, American contractors, and loyal Afghans. And
our supreme command labeled that rout a brilliant retreat. Meanwhile, the military suffers
from depleted inventory of key munitions while being short 45,000 annual recruits. The
Pentagon is torn by internal dissension over DEI, woke, anti-meritocratic promotions, and a
politicized officer class — well, apart from now also being outmanned and outgunned by
the Chinese. Many of the world's key maritime corridors — the Red Sea, the Straits
of Hormuz, the Black Sea, and the South China sea — are apparently beyond our navy's
ability to ensure the world safe transit.
Banning
American gun exports. The Biden Administration has become quickly and justly infamous for
damaging American industry in every way possible. If there's a way to make it difficult or
impossible for Americans to make lawful products or provide lawful services, if there's a way for
them to force American manufacturing out of America and into the waiting arms of our enemies, they've
discovered and implemented it. This is nowhere as true as in the energy and firearm sectors.
Why
Are So Many Pushing for America to Have a Hot War with Russia? In a war with Russia,
American soldiers will be forced to fight with horrendous casualties. When this happens,
Americans will relive the Vietnam War. Also, as our Afghan withdrawal displayed, we have no
Pentagon leadership. That leadership will also direct a war against Russia. Moreover,
today's woke military will not fare well against battle-hardened Russian troops. Many
fighters have been forced out because of their Judeo-Christian values. Others are gone for
refusing to surrender their right not to take an experimental vaccine that has unknown efficacy and
side effects. Woke troops will not get the job done.
Woke
Policies Threaten to Shatter America's Multi-Generational Military legacy. The U.S.
Army, Navy and Air Force all face a severe and worsening recruiting crisis that imperils their
future strength, readiness, and warfighting capabilities. Despite devoting immense resources
and effort towards attracting qualified recruits, only the Marine Corps and Space Force are meeting
targets for bringing in the next generation of talent. This deeply troubling trend has
profound implications for national security if left unaddressed. At the core of this
challenge lies a growing disconnect between the culture and values of contemporary American youth
and the traditional ethos of military service. Compared to past generations, an
ever-shrinking percentage of the population has any direct familial ties or personal familiarity
with the armed forces. The concept of military service as a default pathway or rite of
passage has diminished significantly.
America's
military decline is deliberate. The woke and weakened military is no accident, nor is
Biden the principal cause of this problem. Biden cannot craft any strategy that would
transform an institution like the military into a socialistic morass. For that, we must look
to Obama. He crafted the strategy and set the wheels in motion. Over five years, Obama
fired 197 senior military officers who did not agree with his foreign policy nor his vision of the
role to be played by the military. The coup of our country's warrior class leadership had
begun. This coup created a void in the ranks of our nation's senior generals and admirals,
and Obama began filling that void with sycophants who saw the opportunity for promotion. Over
the ensuing 12 years, each promotion cycle focused upon more like-minded generals and admirals
who, coincidentally, had been groomed and selected by those Obama initially chose to replace the
"fired 197." The message became crystal clear: Go woke or go home.
Biden's inner circle has simply followed the Obama recipe.
The
left's assault on the United States military is picking up steam. One of the most
vital things for a successful dictatorship is military control. A politically neutral
military composed of people loyal to the country, rather than its leadership, represents an ongoing
threat to a despot. For centuries, America has had that politically neutral military, but the
Biden administration is accelerating a process begun under Obama, which is to weaken military
readiness while ensuring that both officers and troops hew to a specific political ideology.
In the first five years of his presidency, Obama fired almost 200 military officers, some of whom
felt very strongly that there was an ideological purge taking place. Certainly, the Pentagon
class's willing embrace of leftist ideologies (DEI, CRT and, especially, LGBTQ+++) seems to
indicate that those in charge of the military's strange new destiny are on board with all of this.
Hollowed Out. Most military
experts agree that the U.S. military is no longer capable of achieving its mission as mandated by national defense
doctrines adopted by administrations of both parties. President Biden is exacerbating the situation by focusing
military strategy on progressive politics instead of military preparedness. Even a Democratic controlled Congress
overruled his proposed budget in order to increase spending and partially to fund programs required to reverse the
decline. While the U.S. military remains the world's most powerful military, it also has the broadest mission of
any nation, with global security needs and commitments. Those proud of U.S. capabilities fairly observe that no
other nation could have evacuated 124,000 people in two weeks from Kabul. Nonetheless, insufficient funding, slow
modernization, and woke mandates are hollowing out the military's readiness and capacity to achieve its mission.
[The]
Biden Administration [is] Intentionally Weakening [the] Military: Retired General. When the United States
acts, the world is always watching, and one of the loudest messages since President Joe Biden took office came from how
the United States handled its withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. What message did that send globally to
other government leaders who may see America as an adversary? That was a question asked by Tony Perkins, president
of Family Research Council, during a panel discussion Thursday about America's role on the world stage at the Pray Vote
Stand Summit in Atlanta hosted by FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of Family Research Council. "I think that
will go down in history as the worst foreign policy failure in U.S. history. Every decision that was made was
wrong," said Lt. General (Ret.) William Boykin, executive vice president at Family Research Council.
How
Obama and Biden Destroyed the Greatest Military the World Has Ever Seen. Joseph R. Biden is directly
responsible for the worst, most humiliating, most dangerous — yet completely avoidable — defeat in the
history of American warfare. He has betrayed the country that elected him and that he is sworn to serve. Yet
Biden has shown no remorse and taken no responsibility for the damage he has done. Instead, he has brazenly lied and
called his own disaster a "success." Every tyrant and terrorist watched the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan and
knew we were weak. A few months after the fall of Kabul, Communist China completed its takeover of Hong Kong with
rigged parliamentary elections. Right around the same time, Vladimir Putin began the military buildup for the invasion
of Ukraine. None of that was a coincidence. Biden has weakened our military while arming and empowering
terrorists. He has emboldened Iran, China, and Russia leading to threats and conflicts around the world. The
question is, what will Republicans do about it?
How
Obama Sabotaged the American Military. By the time Barack Obama left office, every branch of the military was
smaller than it had been on September 11. But the change in size concealed the true impact of America's most left-wing
president in undermining our national security and weakening us in the face of our enemies. "I've got a pen, and I've
got a phone," Obama famously boasted. He used the pen to unleash a blizzard of executive orders and memorandums.
Some led to outraged protests, but some of his most devastating penned assaults on our nation's military flew under the
radar. One of those took place during the end of his last year in office. His memorandum, "Promoting Diversity
and Inclusion in the National Security Workforce", created the woke military of the Biden administration by putting identity
politics, diversity quotas, and political indoctrination at the heart of the military's mission. Obama had always
resented the military. [...] His order redefined diversity as the military's "greatest asset" and reinvented national
security as a system for maximizing employment diversity by race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and every identity
politics metric, but not the military metrics that truly mattered, readiness, competence, and a willingness to wage war in
defense of the homeland.
This is exactly what Barack H. Obama would
do. [1]
[2]
[3] In
Reversal Of Trump Admin Policy, State Department Reveals How Many Nuclear Weapons America Possesses. The State
Department released newly declassified information Tuesday about the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile,
reversing the position it took under former President Donald Trump. The total number of nuclear weapons in active
status and in long-term storage was 3,750 as of September 2020, the department said in a press release. The number is a
roughly 88% reduction compared to its maximum of 31,255 warheads in 1967 and a roughly 83% reduction compared to 22,217
warheads near the end of the Cold War in 1989. The U.S. dismantled 11,683 warheads between 1994 and 2020, including 711
warheads since 2017, according to a State Department fact sheet. Around 2,000 additional warheads are retired and
waiting to be dismantled.
More evidence that we are living in Obama's third term: West
Point cadets forced to attend race theory seminars, incl. one calling white cops 'murderers'. Last week,
combat-decorated U.S. Army Green Beret turned congressman Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) wrote a letter to Lt. Gen. Darryl
Williams, the superintendent of West Point, describing the concerns "unsettled soldiers, cadets, and families" had about "the
U.S. Army's introduction of elements of critical race theory into cadet instruction." In his letter to Williams, Waltz
noted one mandatory Sept. 24, 2020 seminar in which white police officers were described as murderers. "The entire
corps of cadets was required to report to Michie Stadium for your address as Superintendent and to hear from a cadet panel.
In this session, an active duty female colonel described to the Corps how she become 'woke' to her white privilege, and felt guilty
for the advantages of her race," Waltz wrote. "At this same assembly, white police officers were described as murderers with
no context or court documents provided to corroborate the anecdotes of police brutality."
The
Obama Doctrine: Embolden Our Enemies, Undermine Our Allies, Diminish Our Country. [In February, 2012],
President Obama feted Communist China's Xi Jinping, the man who hopes to lead his country as it emerges as the world's next
superpower. Mr. Xi must have been delighted to see press reports that his host is poised to end America's claim to
such status — at least with respect to the traditional means of measuring it: nuclear weaponry. According
to a story first reported by the Associated Press, Mr. Obama has directed the Defense Department to come up with plans
for reducing the U.S. nuclear arsenal by as much as eighty percent. Evidently, he is prepared to take such a step
unilaterally in order to encourage by our example other nations to join in his longstanding ambition to "rid the world of
nuclear weapons." It is unclear whether the topic came up during the various meetings the PRC's vice president had with
his White House and other interlocutors. Even if it did, Xi presumably would not have disclosed a closely held Chinese
secret: How many missiles and warheads have been squirreled away in 3,000 miles of hardened tunnels that make up
what has been called the "Underground Great Wall of China."
How
Obama-era budget controls have hurt US military readiness against growing China, Russia, Iran threats. The
United States military still reigns as the most preeminent one in the world, but a new report exclusively obtained by Fox
News shows that sustaining that superiority is far from guaranteed as the Pentagon still trudges through budget cuts put in
place almost a decade ago. The Heritage Foundation's "2021 Index of U.S. Military Strength," which annually examines
the previous year's defense policies and global operation climate, underscores that the threat posed by foreign adversaries
"will require our national defense and intelligence posture to adapt to a world that for nearly 20 years has been fixated
on defeating international terrorists."
DHS
whistleblower Philip Haney was murdered fighting Obama's 'new beginning.' [Scroll down] A year prior to
his Senate appearance, Haney's wife Francesca was diagnosed with cancer, and Haney retired to care for her. Francesca
died in June 2019. In 2020, Haney planned to remarry, and also to return to the DHS. He also planned to publish, in
the spring, a follow-up book to his first. Haney did none of these things, for, on Feb. 21, he was murdered in a
park-and-ride parking lot. By whom? [...] Aside from that, according to congressmen Haney was in contact with, Haney
always carried a USB thumb drive containing "sensitive government information about Islamic extremists and national security"
around his neck. Subsequent to his murder, no such thumb drive on him was found. Assuming they were aware of the
contents of the drive, only violent jihadists would have an interest in it. A few weeks later, on March 9, in a nearby
town, U.S. federal prosecutor Timothy Delgado and his wife of five months, Tamara, were found, shot dead, in their home.
[...] As Delgado lived in proximity to the site of Haney's murder, he could have been the agent investigating it.
The Progressive Medusa.
A Pentagon billet was once seen as a sort of dead-end assignment among the swamp of Washington. Not now. The Left
discovered that, unlike clumsy government, the military could streamline social change by fiat. And so it did, once
they got control of it. Lethal Islamic terrorism at home was reduced to "workplace violence." Women in front-line
combat units were fast-tracked. Man-made and thus correctable global warming became a military gospel. The
transgendered posed no problems in combat efficacy. Promotion and evaluation had to encompass far more than combat
readiness, strategic and tactical insight, and natural leadership but instead reflect diversity and proportional
representation due to disparate impact.
The
Adverse Effects of Obama's Executive Order 13583 and the Purge of Generals and Admirals Are Now Obvious. Two
disastrous actions taken by Barack Hussein Obama during his presidency have delivered extensive damage to the US military,
just as planned. The first was the systematic purging of nearly 200 senior officers over five years and their
subsequent replacement by Democrat loyalists, as reported here. His second ignominious action taken was the 2011
Executive Order 13583 directing "government-wide diversity and inclusion training," which, by 2020, included the
implementation of Marxist critical race theory training in all federal agencies including the US military services. The
results from these actions are now crystal clear. Retired Obama-era flag and general officers (FOGO), in direct
violation of Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, have publicly criticized President Trump and even called
him a threat to US national security, as noted [elsewhere]. Several may even be preparing for a military coup, as
reported in this shocking video from Col Richard H. Black, JAG Corps, USA (retd), a former head of the Army's Criminal
Law Division: [Video clip]
Obama-era
Pentagon Training Manual Attacks White Men. In 2013, I received a controversial 600-plus page manual used by
the military to train its Equal Opportunity officers that teaches that "healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian" men hold an
unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called "White Male Club." "Simply put, a
healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives many unearned advantages of social privilege, whereas a black,
homosexual, atheist female in poor health receives many unearned disadvantages of social privilege," reads a statement in the
manual created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI). The manual also instructs troops to
"support the leadership of people of color. Do this consistently, but not uncritically," the manual states.
There
is something very wrong with some in the top ranks of America's military. It began to be clear last October
that the Obama administration (with some help from Bill Clinton's presidency) had seeded the Pentagon with leftist generals
whose allegiance was to the Deep State, to cultural leftism, and to the infamous and profitable "military industrial complex"
that Eisenhower warned about in 1961. In only five years, Obama had conducted a major Pentagon purge, firing almost 200
senior officers who held the old-fashioned belief that the military exists to protect America and should not be a social
justice institution with limited firepower. The upper-level officers who remained were hardcore Democrats. While
still in the military, Admirable McRaven gave bin Laden a respectful, private burial. Once out of the military, he
wrote an editorial for the New York Times, strongly suggesting a military coup against Trump. Barry McCaffrey, a
Clinton White House officer, likened Trump to Mussolini because he canceled the White House's newspaper subscriptions.
And Obama's Joint Chiefs Vice Chair, James Winnefeld, was deeply offended on behalf of ISIS terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
because Trump did the psychologically smart thing of telling al-Baghdadi's followers that he died like a coward.
Would
the Military Side with Leftist Tyranny or with America? [Scroll down] America remembers the military of
30 years ago that could actually win a war in a reasonable period of time (as we did in Desert Storm), today's generals
benefit from residual respect for yesterday's Cold War military. Americans are unaware of the devastated culture
cultivated by our military senior leadership. Here's the ruinous legacy of today's generals: Afghanistan is a
disaster and still not won, ships colliding and catching fire due to gross failures of leadership, boats of sailors on tape
whimpering as they surrender to the Iranian Navy, senior officers leaking to the media, colonels, generals and admirals
getting court-martialed, massive prosecutorial misconduct by JAGs, woke West Point (which recently graduated an open
communist), and troops kneeling before rioters. It's a military that puts Diversity Day before D-Day.
Unfortunately, the first 24 hours of war with China would make the rot agonizingly apparent — at the cost of
thousands of our warriors' precious lives.
The
10 ways Obama has actively sought to destroy America. Presidents past have often used the military as a test
bed of social experimentation, and successfully. But Obama is pushing social experimentation to an unprecedented
level — one that experts believe will ultimately have lasting damage, such as permitting people to serve who have
no idea what sex they really are, and allowing women to serve in combat roles despite increases in injuries and mental health issues.
Obama
DOD Started 'Indoctrinating Our Troops' on Racism and 'Privilege,' New Docs Show. On Thursday, Judicial Watch
obtained 1,483 pages of teaching materials from the Department of Defense (DOD) produced by the Defense Equal Opportunity
Management Institute (DEOMI) during President Barack Obama's tenure. The DOD's "equal opportunity advisors" use the
documents to train service members on diversity topics. Among other things, the training materials attribute opposition
to reparations or affirmative action to a form of racism, claim the idea that "human similarities are more important than
differences" is a form of "ethnocentrism," warn against "sexual orientation privilege" and "religious privilege," and claim
that those who raise religious objections to same-sex marriage are engaging in discrimination. "These documents show
that the Department of Defense has been indoctrinating our troops with anti-American and racially inflammatory 'training,'"
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
DHS
Whistleblower Philip Haney Found Dead with Gunshot Wound to Chest. An Obama-era whistleblower was found dead
Friday morning [2/21/2020] in Northern California with a gunshot wound to his chest. [...] Haney rose to national prominence
in late December 2015 when he made a series of accusations about the Obama Administration's reckless, soft-on terrorism
policies. The whistleblower claimed that he could have prevented the December 2, 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino
if the government had not shut down a surveillance program he had developed three years earlier. Haney had worked in
the Intelligence Review Unit (IRU), where his job was to investigate individuals with potential links to terrorism.
The Rot
Is Deep (Part II). [Scroll down] This problem has been festering for a long time. However, it has
accelerated since 2008 and the election of a first term senator from Illinois, who up until then, had never, ever had any
position of personal responsibility, made it much worse. Like many of whom are of President Obama's political
persuasion, the Military was at best, a tool to promote his leftist agenda. At worst, it stood as one of the solid
pillars supporting the greatness that is America. Like the Boy Scouts and the Churches, the Military was a respected,
moral force for good. As such, the leftists believe it needs to be subverted. It needs to be turned into just
another source of government jobs occupied by folks who vote Democrat. How do they accomplish that? One way is
that they turn each Military Academy into just another college, albeit with strange clothes. The Military Academies are
some of the most important pillars that underpin our Armed Forces. This directed effort to weaken them, makes them less
"special."
How Obama Impacted
the Military. Radical changes imposed on our military by progressives, begun in earnest during the Obama
administration, are negatively impacting our combat readiness and jeopardizing the lives of our men and women in uniform and,
ultimately, our national security. In Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America's Military,
author James Hasson elucidates how Barack Obama fundamentally changed military culture to make our nation less secure.
Report:
84% of Women Fail New Army Combat Fitness Test. In a new report, the Center for Military Readiness says that
84% of women fail the New Army Combat Fitness Test and that "all military officials should drop the 'gender diversity' agenda
and put mission readiness and 'combat lethality' first." "It makes no sense for recruiters to devote more time and
money recruiting 'gender diverse' trainees who are more likely to be injured, less likely to want infantry assignments, and
less likely to remain through basic training or physically-demanding combat arms assignments for twenty years or more,"
states the CMR report.
It's Unthinkable
One of the Dems Could Be President. [Scroll down] All of the Dem candidates are virtually silent on
defense and foreign policy because no one in their party [cares] about those issues. [...] Take Joe Biden.
Please. His view of the global war on terrorist networks and the nations that support them was encapsulated in his
opposition to the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Biden, and Obama's then-defense secretary Bob Gates,
both tried to persuade Obama not to permit the raid. Biden was vice president when Obama and Gates cut defense spending
massively, at a rate of $600 billion over ten years. Trump says that our military is rebuilt from those bad days,
which isn't at all true. A study by the Heritage Foundation released last week rated the Army, Navy, Air Force,
and Marine Corps on their capacity, capability and readiness for war. The results Heritage reports are shocking.
Air
Force Academy Lowers Standards, Lets In Criminals. In another sick example of failed leadership at the U.S. Air
Force Academy, this writer's alma mater, a second USAFA football player is being charged with serious drug crimes, including
dealing. We have written often about the lowering of standards at USAFA and the other service academies in order to
pursue the liberal dream of social justice, diversity, and the vast amounts of money that a leading division one college
football team can bring. This development is further evidence that Air Force has completely discarded entry standards
and is no longer in the business of training warriors, but bureaucrats who can function in the social advancement military
that Obama built.
How
Obama turned the military into a social justice experiment. A curious thing happened in the second half of the
Obama era: The commander-in-chief began viewing the military less as an entity designed to destroy enemies but a tool
with which to achieve progressive goals. Warriors were turned into social-justice warriors. Men and women with
risible-to-nonexistent military records were made heads of the services. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus (who had logged all
of two years' service as a junior officer) named ships after Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk. James Hasson, a former Army
captain who served in Afghanistan, [...] reports on a program in which male soldiers were ordered to train in fake breasts
and distended bellies so they could experience what life was like for pregnant soldiers. Ordering a recruit to do more
than 10 pushups as punishment for minor misdeeds was declared unduly harsh.
The Inside
Story Of How The Army Reduced Standards To Get Women Through Ranger Training. [Scroll down] It is
important to emphasize that those whom I interviewed expressed admiration for the graduating females' grit and perseverance
and were not critical of the female candidates' character or commitment. The officers and enlisted soldiers I spoke to
uniformly respected the female candidates' efforts and willingness to put themselves through the rigors of Ranger
training. They repeatedly emphasized that their critiques were intended simply to highlight how systematic political
pressure forced changes to the legendary Ranger course, damaging its integrity, just as political pressure forced detrimental
changes at every level of the military during the eight years of the Obama administration.
U.S.
Navy Shut Down Climate Change Task Force. The U.S. Navy shut down its Task Force Climate Change (TFCC), which
was established by President Barack Obama in 2009, reported E&E News' Greenwire. The closure was quiet and occurred in
March, according to Greenwire, and "the group's tab on the Navy's energy, environment and climate change website was removed
sometime between March and July." The purpose of the TFCC was to evaluate how climate change affects or could affect
Naval and national security operations.
US
Navy ends Obama's climate change task force as Trump rolls back environmental initiatives. The US Navy quietly
shuttered a task force created under former President Barack Obama to prepare the military branch for the impact of global
warming, reportedly saying the team was "no longer needed". Its ending, which happened in March and was first reported
on Tuesday [8/27/2019] by the environmental site E&E News, reflects a trend under Donald Trump in which federal
agencies have shuttered operations designed to combat climate change nationwide and around the world. Before the
president seemingly fired former Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, the career military official wrote in 2017 to the Senate Armed
Services Committee: "Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today."
How
Obama-era social engineering transformed the military. [Scroll down] In practice, then, biologically male
soldiers who "identified" as female would be treated as if they had the bodies of young women and, for instance, be allowed
to pass Army fitness tests at a lower level or pass body composition standards designed for a member of the opposite sex.
In an institution that is concerned exclusively with physical realities and physical outcomes, that is no small thing.
Castro
Makes Fools of Obama & Co.. In brief, a Republican's word under oath is an obvious subterfuge. But the
word of KGB-mentored apparatchiks who've run a Russian satrapy for over half a century is good as gold. So seem to
reason the Obama team and their Fake News Media auxiliaries. And to demonstrate their fidelity to the Russian satrap's
word, the Obama team put our national security where Castro's mouth is, by giving his top defense and secret police
apparatchiks a guided tour of some of our most vital defense facilities!
Why
Have Department of Defense Suicides Spiked? The Department of Defense has a suicide problem. Thank Presidents Clinton
and Obama[.] Prior to 1993, the Department of Defense (DOD) used to screen recruits, officer candidates, and service academy entrants
for mental, personality, and suicide behavior disorders. Now they don't. [...] When men and women had enlistment physicals, they were
evaluated by a physician for obvious physical defects and to also see if they had an apparent mental or personality disorder. Any
potential recruit screened with mental, personality, and suicide (and a range of other) behavior disorders were considered unfit for service.
Then President Clinton signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law. DOD's policy that screened for personality disorders and mental illnesses
during the pre-enlistment physical was terminated as a function of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law. The law removed all screening for
DSM categories of homosexuality, sexual and personality disorders and mental illnesses.
The
Declining American Military Advantage. No one likes bad news. So, very few news outlets have been
reporting this bad news. Last Tuesday the National Defense Strategy Commission reported that America's military
superiority has seriously eroded. If you still think that America is the world's greatest military hegemon,
unchallanged [sic] in the air, on the ground and at sea, think again. [...] Since President Trump insisted on increasing defense
spending, we can conclude that one cause of the problem was that the Obama administration, on whose watch America's military
advantage slipped, showed no concern about the problem. While the Congressional sequester is responsible for much of
the problem, President Obama did nothing to counter it. He simply did not care.
Obama's
third term: 13 times courts said Trump must continue Obama's lawless policies. [#8] Transgenders in the
military: From the time of George Washington until the last year of Obama's presidency, men who castrated themselves or
imagined that they were women did not serve in the military. Obama changed that in 2016 without approval from
Congress. Yet several judges in D.C., Baltimore, and Seattle mandated that Trump admit them into the military and
continue a policy that never existed before 2016. Judge Marvin Garbis of Baltimore, a Bush appointee, even ruled that
the Pentagon must pay for the "surgery." Every president, as commander in chief, can determine military enlistment
qualifications, but not Trump.
Lawsuit
Against Obama Officials Proceeding. U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Saucier, a machinist's mate on the
submarine USS Alexandria from September 2007 to March 2012, went to prison for an infraction of the sort that the U.S.
military normally deals with administratively. Saucier used his cellphone to snap photographs of the vessel's nuclear
propulsion system while the ship was docked at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, Conn. Saucier said he took pictures
to show his future children what he did aboard the submarine. He was convicted of felony unauthorized retention of
national defense information and obstruction of justice. [...] Months after Saucier was sentenced, President Obama infamously
commuted the prison sentence of U.S. Army Private Chelsea Manning whose leaking of sensitive U.S. government documents may
have cost Americans and friendly foreign assets their lives.
America
really did have a Manchurian Candidate in the White House. In the short year and a half that President Trump
has been in office, he has put in place policy that has mitigated the damage that President Obama inflicted on our national
security and on our allies. The speed with which Trump has been able to turn things around points to the diabolical
depths the Obama administration went to in order to undermine our national strength and way of life. All Trump had to
do was stop doing things that hurt America; America could then take care of itself. The results are plain as day.
However, it will take decades for the Obama damage to be completely undone.
Now that Obama's gone... Army
training will now focus on actual battlefield skills, not social issues. In a series of servicewide memorandums
approved by Army Secretary Mark Esper and Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and obtained by The Washington Times, service
leaders are making optional previously mandatory training on issues such as transgender transition and drug abuse. The
move, Army leaders argue, is designed to relieve stress on the overburdened troop training regimen and refocus on soldiers'
ability to fight in combat.
Navy
Sinks Obama-Era Green Destroyer Program. The U.S. Navy is cancelling a plan developed under former President
Barack Obama to install hybrid electric drives (HED) in 34 destroyers. "Based on the Department's priorities, President's
Budget 2019 removes funding for Hybrid Electric Drive program in FY 2019," Lt. Lauren Chatmas said in a statement
announcing the decision. "There are no further procurements or installations planned ... in the Future Years Defense
Program." Chatmas cited the program's disappointing fuel efficiency and the Navy's budgetary constraints among reasons
for the decision.
On
Easter Sunday, here's why Christians are giving thanks that Obama's out of the White House. In 2011, Obama
allowed homosexuals to serve openly in the military for the first time in the nation's history. His Pentagon allowed
chaplains to perform same-sex marriages at military facilities — even though it was a violation of DOMA at the
time. [...] Another first: under Obama, the Pentagon let service members wear their uniforms at a gay pride parade.
It's
Up to Veterans to Reclaim Religious Liberty in Military Stolen by Obama. Despite the election of the very
pro-religious liberty President Trump in 2016, there are still many anti-religious liberty policies in place for those who
serve in the military. Many of those policies engineered by former President Obama and his civilian bureaucrats in the
Pentagon erase freedom of expression of Christian faith and religious liberty from the U.S. Armed Forces. Some
Obama-VIDOLera rules even criminalize the open expression of religious faith by men and women in uniform. With
President Trump in the White House, we have a real opportunity to reverse one of the worst legacies of the Obama
Administration — its aggressive attempt to erase Christianity, religious liberty and even Chaplains from the United
States military. But it will be up to veterans to lead the charge to undo the damage Obama has done to our military.
Obama's
legacy will be that he allowed Russia to 'sow discord' in the US. (Russian) meddling?" It's a good question,
especially since, as President Trump pointed out, "all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama administration."
The answer to President Trump's question is that over the course of eight years the Obama administration neglected to take
cybersecurity seriously, even though in 2013 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned of a "coming (cyber) Pearl Harbor."
Despite repeated intrusions, and though independent agencies concluded that our defenses against hackers were woefully
inadequate, the Obama White House made only cosmetic attempts to protect our vital agencies and infrastructure. When
this lack of preparedness led to damaging virtual break-ins, President Obama declined to confront the bad actors trying to
steal our secrets.
FBI bureaucratic failures
and willful blindness rack up a horrifying body count. For POTUS 44, the Fort Hood attack was not terrorism or even "gun violence."
The mass murder was "workplace violence" and [Robert] Mueller had no problem with that. POTUS 44, who as Barry Soetoro attended a Muslim school
in Indonesia, proclaimed that the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.Robert He also ordered that the FBI must not consider
any links between Islam and terrorist attacks against the United States. Mueller duly purged hundreds of counter-terrorism training materials of
any hint that Islamic terrorists might pose a security problem. CAIR boss Nihad Awad thanked Mueller for his "pledge" to review FBI counterterrorism
training. So Mueller slavishly put political correctness above the safety of the American people, and that doubtless explains why the FBI looked
the other way as the Tsarnaevs, Omar Mateen and others plotted their deadly actions.
Pentagon:
Obama's DOD Gave Security Clearances to Contractors Charged with Felonies, Including Pedophilia. The Pentagon
was forced last year to rescind interim security clearances granted under the Obama administration to at least 165
contractors linked to various crimes, including felony convictions for pedophilia and foreign government affiliations,
revealed a report issued by the Director of the Defense Security Service (DSS). According to the report, DOD contractors
preserved their ability to access sensitive government information despite prior criminal records and other illicit past
activity that the Pentagon's vetting process failed to detect.
Confirmed:
Trump Is, Indeed, a Very Stable Genius. [Scroll down] Let's look at ISIS, Obama's bastard Middle Eastern
child. Maybe he should have called them "the Snows" instead of "Daesh," an appellation he used instead of "ISIS." It
is an acronym for the Arabic phrase "al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham." Everything Barry did had to have a little sham
to it. Obama said it would be a long fight comprising years of costly sacrifice in the form of American blood and
treasure. You see, he had strict rules of engagement, dictating that American forces were not allowed to shoot first or
return fire if there was a possibility of civilians around. It was the first war in history where one side wasn't
allowed to shoot first and sometimes couldn't even shoot back. I wonder how many American lives were sacrificed for
that. Keep in mind that this is the guy they told us is a "genius."
Green
Beret Trainer Faults 'Careerism' Among Senior Officers for Weakening Special Ops. An Army Green Beret officer
has issued a public but anonymous rebuke of senior leaders for weakening America's special forces by lowering training
standards due to careerism and push to integrate women into the elite force. "Our regiment has a cancer, and it is
destroying the [Special Forces] legacy, its capability, and its credibility," the officer wrote anonymously in an email
widely circulated within the U.S. Special Operations Command. The officer is based at the Army Special Warfare Center
and School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and the email accuses leaders of "moral cowardice" by lowering training standards
and weakening the capabilities of special operations commandos. The email touched off a debate among current and former
Special Operations troops.
Robert
Mueller, Agent of Willful Ignorance. It has come to light that as director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, who is
currently the special counsel looking for any dirt he can find on Donald Trump, presided over the 2012 removal of all
counterterror training materials of any mention of Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism. Since then, our law
enforcement and intelligence officials have been blundering along in self-imposed darkness about the motivating ideology
behind the jihad threat. This, it turns out, was Mueller's doing. In February 2012, the Obama Administration
purged more than one thousand documents and presentations from counter-terror training material for the FBI and other
agencies. This material was discarded at the demand of Muslim groups, which had deemed it inaccurate or offensive to
Muslims. This purge was several years in the making, and I was — inadvertently — the one who
touched it off.
A Hidden Scandal Worse Than Uranium One.
What could be worse than giving 20 percent of our uranium to Russia one might ask? How about giving a 35-year lease to
one of America's largest container ports, located just minutes from the Kennedy Space Center, to a Middle Eastern company with
ties to Iran, North Korea, Russia and the evil genius behind Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program? But that's exactly
what the same players involved in the Uranium One deal did when they leased the cargo container operations at Port Canaveral,
Florida after two years of secret talks with the Obama administration. Now the Center for Security Policy's dogged and
fearless team of Alan Jones and Mary Fanning have revealed exactly what could go wrong, with potentially catastrophic consequences
for U.S. national security.
Obama's
Legacy: North Korea's Nuclear Weapons. Progressives are always talking about Barack Obama's legacy.
Well, this is his true legacy: the needless deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of innocent people because he refused to
take action before the clock ran out. Obama wanted to be known as the president who stopped wars and not one who
started them, which he did anyway when he thought it would enhance his stature. Because of this, he withdrew from Iraq,
birthing ISIS; waffled in Syria, resulting in the death of a half a million people; and did nothing about North Korea.
He played golf and threw parties in the White House. With North Korea, it is now probably too late for effective action
short of war. Wait a couple of years, when the bill for his appeasement of Iran will come due.
Obama
administration knew about North Korea's miniaturized nukes. Tuesday's [8/8/2017] bombshell Washington Post story that the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has determined North Korea is capable of constructing miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be used
as warheads for missiles — possibly ICBMs — left out a crucial fact: DIA actually concluded this in 2013.
The Post also failed to mention that the Obama administration tried to downplay and discredit this report at the time.
McMaster: The Ultimate Holdover.
For eight years the Obama administration relentlessly politicized everything it touched. Those dedicated to Obama's
ideology were embedded in every agency at every level. Obama's failures are numerous and highly damaging to our
national security. His State Department produced an awful arms agreement with the Russians, tried desperately to
pressure Israel into an untenable peace agreement, and proudly signed Obama's nuclear weapons deal with Iran. Obama's
Defense Department supported the massive spending cuts Obama engineered. Those cuts are the source of the readiness
crisis we now face which, for example, leave about 70% of Marine Corps F-18s unfit to fly combat missions.
Retired
generals, admirals thank Trump for announcing ban on transgender troops. More than a dozen retired generals and
admirals have signed a letter to President Trump thanking him for his announced policy to ban transgender people from the
armed forces. "We write today to express our gratitude to you for making the extremely courageous decision to reverse
President Obama's transgender social experiment," the conservative retired flag officers wrote. "There may be an
enormous amount of vitriol directed at you for making this policy correction, but please know that overturning this policy
may have done more in the long-term to save the culture and war-fighting capacity of the U.S. military than perhaps any other
military policy you will adopt as president." The letter came as the Palm Center, a research nonprofit that promotes the
LGBT agenda, released a competing statement from 56 retired admirals and generals who say reimposing the ban will hurt
readiness, not help it.
Pentagon
investigators find 'security risks' in government's immigrant recruitment program, 'infiltration' feared.
Defense Department investigators have discovered "potential security risks" in a Pentagon program that has enrolled more than
10,000 foreign-born individuals into the U.S. armed forces since 2009, Fox News has learned exclusively, with sources on
Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon expressing alarm over "foreign infiltration" and enrollees now unaccounted for. After
more than a year of investigation, the Pentagon's inspector general recently issued a report — its contents still
classified but its existence disclosed here for the first time — identifying serious problems with Military
Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI), a DOD program that provides immigrants and non-immigrant aliens with an
expedited path to citizenship in exchange for military service. Defense Department officials said the program is still
active but acknowledged that new applications have been suspended.
Restoring
the Military's Moral Underpinnings. The Trump administration came to power with a clear mandate to restore U.S.
military credibility, effectiveness, and capabilities. Such a mandate involves reversing not only the debilitating
impact of sequestration on our declining military force structure, but also the Obama administration's social engineering
mandates forced on our military. These mandates did nothing to improve readiness or capabilities. They destroyed
unit integrity, cohesiveness and the "will to win." Clearly, under President Obama's plan to fundamentally change America,
the degradation of our military forces was a key element. The capitulation of our military leadership to accept these
mandates was more than shocking, as it was a manifestation of the corrupt "political correctness" mentality run amok.
Historical background: ABC
Confirms Father of Our Country Opposed Gays in the Military. As we have reported previously, David Barton of
Wallbuilders has provided historical evidence that General George Washington himself authorized the court-martial and
expulsion of the soldier. Writing about the incident, Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council provided additional
details, saying, "Like today, his army was at war. Like today, his army had serious problems of recruitment and
retention. Perhaps, like today, there might have been some people who would have argued that his army could not afford
to lose a soldier over something like his sexual conduct." Nevertheless, Lieutenant Frederick Gotthold Enslin was kicked out
"for attempting to commit sodomy" and Washington himself referred to the conduct as abhorrent. Enslin was reportedly one of
several such cases.
Homosexuals in the Military.
General Washington held a clear understanding of the rules for order and discipline, and as the original Commander-in-Chief,
he was the first not only to forbid, but even to punish, homosexuals in the military. [...] Because of the nature of the
crime, the penalties for the act of sodomy were often severe. For example, Thomas Jefferson indicated that in his home
state of Virginia, "dismemberment" of the offensive organ was the penalty for sodomy. In fact, Jefferson himself authored
a bill penalizing sodomy by castration. The laws of the other states showed similar or even more severe penalties: [...]
Gertz:
Obama Admin 'Leftist' Policies Have Damaged National Security in the Information Age. Washington Free
Beacon senior editor Bill Gertz argued Monday [7/17/2017] that "leftist" policies initiated by the Obama administration
have limited the ability of the United States to effectively conduct "information operations," ultimately damaging American
national security.
How
the Left Hijacked the American Psychiatric Association and Normalized Personality Disorders. The evidence is
clear — the American Left succeeded in lobbying the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to eliminate some of
the sexual identity disorders from their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). [...] With
transvestitism finally voted out of the DSM, in June 2015 LGBT rights groups had one urgent agenda item for President Barack
Obama: End the ban on transgender people serving in the military. It wasn't that transgender people were
straining red rope barriers, lining up at recruiting stations to serve in the military in a rush of abject patriotism;
no, acceptance into the military allowed transgenders free government-paid sexual reassignment surgery. No longer was
transvestitism considered a mental disorder, it was now considered a medically correctable condition, like a cleft lip and
palate. Medically-correctable conditions like cleft lip and palate correct physical birth defects. Sexual
identity disorders are not physical birth defects but mental defects.
A defense bill to repair, restore
and rebuild the world's best military. I have spent more than half of my life wearing this nation's uniform, serving in the world's greatest military
force to ever grace this Earth. My service crossed the past five presidents starting with Ronald Reagan. I concluded my nearly 30-year military career
in 2014 at the Pentagon, retiring as a brigadier general. During this time, I have seen the military surge in capabilities and unfortunately witnessed firsthand
the erosion of our combat edge. The previous administration, along with Congress, cut military funding by 22 percent over the last eight years while we
were still at war and conducting operations in multiple locations. Our servicemen and women carried the burden of doing much more with much less.
Army
Training Tells Soldiers Not to Gossip About Transgender Troops. The United States Army's training for how to
handle transgender issues instructs troops not to gossip about male soldiers who identify as female. The hour-long
mandatory training is being issued in response to the Obama administration's directive to integrate transgender soldiers into
the military. Last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis delayed the Obama policy by six months. The Army is
still moving forward with its transgender training, which is conducted in the morning in place of physical training, the
Federalist reported.
Why
Can't The U.S. Defend Against A North Korea Nuke Attack? Ask Obama. Like Clinton before him, Obama decided to largely abandon
Bush's missile defense program. He canceled the planned deployment of missile interceptors and an advanced radar station in Poland and the
Czech Republic to appease Russia. He cut the number of interceptors to be installed in the U.S. from 44 to 30 (he reversed this decision in
2013, after a series of North Korean missile launches). Obama also killed the Multiple Kill Vehicle and stripped funding for two programs
designed to destroy a missile in its boost phase. All of this "cost the nation valuable time and capability when it came to building a
comprehensive, layered, ballistic missile defense system," a 2016 Heritage report noted. Yet, incredibly, none of the news stories
discussing the country's ongoing vulnerability to missile attack bothers to mention any of this.
A
Renewed MS-13 — Courtesy of Obama's Lax Immigration. From 2009 to 2014, the number of UACs
apprehended by the Border Patrol, mostly teenaged boys, increased 13-fold from El Salvador, 15-fold from Guatemala, and
19-fold from Honduras. Despite tendentious suggestions to the contrary, this was not a natural, unavoidable
development. The increased crime and disorder in these three so-called Northern Triangle countries of Central America
no doubt sparked greater interest in heading to El Norte, but it was Obama's response to the initial flow that transformed it
into a flood. Mexicans caught at our southern border are sent back right away with relatively little fuss. But
Mexico won't take back non-Mexicans — even though its officials often wave people through on their way
north — so returning these OTMs (Other Than Mexicans) to their countries takes more time. That presents the
authorities with two options: either detain them until they can be repatriated or, if you run out of detention space,
give them a summons to report to an immigration court (called a "notice to appear") and let them go, even though it could be
years before their scheduled court dates.
How
Obama Dismantled U.S. Intel Capabilities To Appease Iran. Now that President Barack Hussein Obama is out of
office, a number of disturbing things have surfaced about Obama's signature foreign policy achievement, known as the Iran
Deal. Among other things, in his lust for the Iran deal at any cost, President Obama dismantled U.S. intel capabilities
being used against Iran and its terrorist satellites and proxies.
Obama Gutted Our Military Readiness.
Barack Obama, who was responsible for the nation's security, insisted that military spending be included in the "sequester"
that automatically cut government spending. Testifying before Congress Monday evening [6/12/2017], Secretary of Defense Mattis
said "the damage has been severe" to our military as a result[.] [Video clip]
Former
Official: Obama Admin 'Systematically Disbanded' Units Investigating Iran's Terrorism Financing Networks. The Obama administration
"systematically disbanded" law enforcement investigative units across the federal government focused on disrupting Iranian, Syrian, and Venezuelan terrorism
financing networks out of concern the work could cause friction with Iranian officials and scuttle the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a former U.S.
official who spent decades dismantling terrorist financial networks. David Asher, who previously served as an adviser to Gen. John Allen at the
Defense and State Departments, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday [6/8/2017] that top officials across several key law enforcement and intelligence
agencies in the Obama administration "systematically disbanded" law enforcement activities targeting the terrorism financing operations of Iran, Hezbollah, and
Venezuela in the lead-up to and during the nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
Ex-CIA
Director Says Obama Admin 'Did Nothing' To Deter Russian Active Measures. Michael Morell, the former acting
director of the CIA under President Obama, said that the Obama administration "did nothing" to stop Russian interference in
the presidential campaign. Morell, who left the CIA in 2013 and supported Hillary Clinton for president last year,
appeared on "CBS This Morning" to discuss testimony that former CIA Director John Brennan gave in a House Intelligence
Committee hearing on Tuesday [5/23/2017]. Brennan revealed for the first time that he was so concerned about Russia's
attempts to meddle in the election that he contacted Alexander Bortnikov, Russia's FSB chief, on Aug. 4 to warn him
against continuing its active measures against the U.S.
Obama
Admin. Knowingly Admitted At Least 16 MS-13 Gang Members into the U.S.. A Customs and Border Protection
whistleblower turned over documents showing that under the Obama administration CBP officials released at least 16 teenagers
they knew had ties to the deadly MS-13 gang. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security
Committee, said the documents showed that the teenagers were caught crossing the border in 2014 but then were shipped to
juvenile homes across the country. "CBP apprehended them, knew they were MS-13 gang members, and they processed and
disbursed them into our communities," Sen. Johnson said.
Obama
administration 'knowingly allowed at least 16 members of notorious teen gang MS-13 into the US'. The Obama
administration allowed at least 16 teenage foreigners into the United States even though it knew they were members of the
so-called 'MS-13' gang, according to a Republican senator. Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin who heads
the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said internal documents showed that the teenagers were sent to juvenile homes across
the US, The Washington Times reported on Wednesday [5/24/2017].
Trump
Is POTUS, and Leftist Hysteria Is Noise. It's helpful to watch the SecDef press conference on YouTube, if you
want to see how Trump's troops are taking charge. Obama's limp-wristed and arguably pro-jihad policies, which had some
of our military in despair about the crimes against children they were forced to witness in places like Syria, are being
replaced by solid, competent, humane but forceful military actions.
Judicial
Watch: Homeland Security Records Reveal Officials Ordered Terrorist Watch List Scrubbed. Judicial Watch
announced today [3/1/2017] that it obtained 183 pages of documents from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that
the Obama administration scrubbed the law enforcement agency's "Terrorist Screening Database" in order to protect what it
considered the civil rights of suspected Islamic terrorist groups. The documents appear to confirm charges that Obama
administration changes created a massive "hands off" list. Removed data from the terrorist watch list could have helped
prevent the San Bernardino terrorist attack.
Trump
Won't Be Punked By Foreign Dirtbags Like Obama Was. Donald Trump is in the process of doing what Barack Obama
never did and what he and his coterie of pompous twits and political hacks masquerading as a foreign policy brain trust could
never do. Trump is establishing a successful foreign policy doctrine. It's not precisely old school Republican
doctrine. [...] Trump's policy is "America First." Obama's policy was "Blame America First." Obama employed force
only after extensive agonizing and never in the amount required to actually win. The Obama Doctrine was about staving
off defeat just long enough so the next sucker would get stuck dealing with the resulting mess [...]
Trump
juggles the foreign policy balls Obama dropped. The Trump administration is taking heat for striking a Syrian
air base with Tomahawk missiles and hitting ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan with a MOAB, a conventional bomb so big that it
has been dubbed the "Mother of All Bombs." No doubt there are useful debates to be had about the pros and cons, both
tactical and juridical. But one sure upside of these strikes is that they are a step toward restoring abroad the
credibility of America as a power to be reckoned with. That's big, in ways that go way beyond the immediate
battlefields. In a world grown dramatically more dangerous during President Obama's eight years of appeasement and
retreat, America badly and urgently needs to restore its lost credibility.
Top
Generals: U.S. Has 'Squeezed' the Life Out of Aging Nuclear Deterrence Systems. The U.S. military is
relying on zero-hour modernization to maintain its aging nuclear arsenal as an effective deterrent against adversaries,
according to two top U.S. generals. Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before
the House Armed Services Committee that the United States cannot defer nuclear modernization without "significant risk" to
its deterrent capabilities, particularly as other countries like Russia and China are working to revolutionize their forces.
DHS
Whistleblower: I was ordered to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties. [I]n 2009, the Washington
Times reports that a senior White House aide called for the elimination of the term "jihadist" because jihadis should be
considered simply "extremists." Two years later, the Washington Times continues, the White House "ordered a cleansing of
training materials that Islamic groups deemed offensive." In 2011, the Obama administration ordered the FBI to cease all
surveillance on mosques that might be radicalizing potential jihadis in the U.S.; this move was pointed to as a reason that
the Boston bombers were not detected before their terrorist attack. Now, a former DHS employee contends that he was
ordered in 2009 — the month before the failed attempt of the Christmas Day "underwear bomber" — to edit
or delete hundreds of files on individuals connected to Islamic terrorism.
Navy's
Depleted Aircraft Will Take Years to Rebuild After Obama-Era Defense Cuts. The Navy's aircraft arsenal is so
depleted it would take several years to rebuild the fleet even if the Trump administration allotted the funding needed to
repair inoperable aircraft, according to a policy expert and former Air Force pilot. John Venable, a senior research
fellow for defense policy at the Heritage Foundation, cited a report released Monday that found two-thirds of the Navy's
strike fighter jets are unable to fly due to maintenance problems exacerbated by several years of military budget cuts.
Thirty-five percent of grounded fighter planes are waiting for parts, while 27 percent are undergoing major depot work,
according to the report published by Defense News.
This is the state of the military immediately after Obama's two terms in the White House: Military
brass sound alarm about 'insidious decline' in readiness. For decades, the F/A-18 Hornet has been the Navy's
front-line combat jet — taking off from aircraft carriers around the globe to enforce no-fly zones, carry out
strikes and even engage in the occasional dogfight. But the Navy's ability to use these planes is now greatly hindered
as more than 60 percent of the jets are out of service. That number is even worse for the Marine Corps, where 74 percent
of its F-18s — some of the oldest in service — are not ready for combat operations. These figures are
reflective of the erosion in readiness across all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces and a source of deepening concern for ranking
military members and lawmakers in both houses of Congress. Top service branch officials sounded the alarm in a pair of
congressional hearings this week about how bad the problem has become.
The
7 Most Egregious Acts Of 'Social Justice' In Obama's Military. Former President Barack Obama left a legacy of
radical social change in the military, but aside from major shifts like allowing women in all combat roles and repealing the
ban on open transgender service, many cases of rampant political correctness have been memory-holed. Here are just
seven egregious examples of social justice that creeped into the armed forces over the last eight years.
ICE
Criminal Prosecutions Plummeted In Obama's Second Term. Criminal prosecutions resulting from U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigations plummeted the last five years of Barack Obama's presidency. The number of
new ICE prosecutions dropped from a high of 21,662 in 2011 to 12,761 in 2016, according to data Syracuse University's
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released Monday [1/23/2017].
From
the Front Line: Sharia Compliance in the US Military. I recently received this shocking letter from a man
who has served as a contractor in Afghanistan. It reveals the appalling extent of sharia compliance in the United
States military.
Obama
Was First President to Spend More on Welfare Than Defense. Barack Obama was the first president of the United
States to spend more on "means-tested entitlements" — AKA welfare — than on national defense, according
to data published by his own Office of Management and Budget. Historical tables that the OMB posted on the Obama White
House website, include annual totals for both "national defense" spending and "means-tested entitlement" spending going back
to fiscal 1962 — which is three years before President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating the Medicaid program,
a means-tested entitlement that together with the Children's Health Insurance Program enrolled 74,407,191 beneficiaries
as of November 2016.
Border
Patrol Alters Stats to Hide Release of Criminal Aliens, High Recidivism. The frontline Homeland Security agency charged with preventing
terrorists and weapons — including those of mass destruction — from entering the country also skews figures to drastically deflate the high
recidivism rate of aliens caught entering the U.S. [...] For the system to work, the Border Patrol must report accurate information involving illegal
aliens who are apprehended. Instead, it appears that federal agents on the ground are being ordered to fudge the numbers as part of a broader
Obama administration effort to protect illegal immigrants and falsely portray the Mexican border as safe.
Obama Shows His True Colors as He
Leaves Office. Commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning, one of the great traitors of our time, is finger-in-the-eye willfulness.
Obama took 28 years off the sentence of a soldier who stole and then released through WikiLeaks almost half a million military reports plus another
quarter-million State Department documents. The cables were embarrassing; the military secrets were almost certainly deadly. They jeopardized
the lives not just of American soldiers on two active fronts — Iraq and Afghanistan — but of locals who were, at great peril, secretly aiding
and abetting us. After Manning's documents release, the Taliban "went on a killing spree" (according to intelligence sources quoted by Fox
News) of those who fit the description of individuals working with the United States.
Obama
Tarnishes His Legacy By Letting A Terrorist Walk Free. We all know about President Obama's commutation of the
35-year sentence of traitor Chelsea Manning, nee Bradley, who handed U.S. secrets over to WikiLeaks, leading to the deaths of
an untold number of people. That was bad enough. But even worse, but sadly less publicized, was Obama's decision
to pardon Oscar Lopez Rivera, the terrorist whose FALN planted more than 130 bombs across America during the 1970s and 1980s,
supposedly on behalf of Puerto Rican independence. Lopez Rivera was sentenced to 55 years in prison for seditious
conspiracy and a number of weapons charges. He's served 35 years of that original sentence.
By
Commuting Bradley Manning's Sentence, Obama Broke Faith with the Military. In essence, soldiers make two simple
pledges: I will obey lawful orders, and I will lay down my life for the mission and my brothers and sisters. Good
commanders know that soldiers trust them to reinforce the warrior ethos with effective discipline. Soldiers who can't be
trusted can't be coddled; violating orders, acting selfishly, or disregarding the mission can ultimately break units and armies.
No
Unicorns, Only Rainbows — President Obama Commutes Bradley Manning Sentence. [Bradley] Manning
copied hundreds of thousands of military incident logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which, among other things, exposed
abuses of detainees by Iraqi military officers working with American forces and showed that civilian deaths in the Iraq war
were likely much higher than official estimates. The files Manning copied also included about 250,000 diplomatic cables
from American embassies around the world showing sensitive deals and conversations, dossiers detailing intelligence assessments
of Guantánamo detainees held without trial, and a video of an American helicopter attack in Baghdad in two Reuters
journalists were killed, among others.
CNN
Reporter: Obama Is Freeing Chelsea Manning Because She's Transitioning. CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny argued
on Tuesday that President Obama commuted Chelsea Manning's prison sentence because the former Army private is transitioning
from a man to a woman. "I think the question this president and the White House will have to answer here, will answer,
and I think it's an important one, how much was the personal story of Chelsea Manning involved in this," Zeleny said in a
panel discussion of the White House decision. Manning, who was formerly known as "Bradley," was sentenced to 35 years
in prison in 2013 on espionage charges for stealing nearly one million classified documents and leaking them to WikiLeaks.
Freeing Private Manning.
Shocking is the only word for President Obama's decision to release Private Manning from prison after serving but six of the
35 years to which the disgraced soldier had been sentenced by a military court. We understand that it is fully within
the President's constitutional power. And that the private's circumstances — as a transgender soldier being
held largely in solitary at a prison for men — must be exceptionally excruciating. Yet what kind of signal
does this commutation send when we are still in the middle of a war in which thousands of our GIs are in harm's way?
Obama's
appalling message to traitors and how critics say reducing Chelsea Manning's sentence may be one of the most serious misjudgments of
his presidency. As pundits spend the last hours of Barack Obama's presidency totting up all the bold pledges he
failed to carry out in office, the White House finally had what it regarded as some good news to boast about. He has now
granted more commutations of prison sentences than any president in the nation's history. In fact, Mr Obama has commuted the
sentences of 1,385 convicted criminals — including 504 serving life sentences — which is more than the total
number issued by the previous 12 presidents combined.
White
House says Obama's release of Manning serves 'justice'. The White House said Wednesday [1/18/2017] that President Obama
granted clemency for transgender military secrets leaker Chelsea Manning "in pursuit of justice," and accused congressional Republicans
of hypocrisy for criticizing the commutation. "Chelsea Manning was convicted of serious crimes," said White House press secretary
Josh Earnest. "She also took responsibility for those crimes. She expressed remorse for those crimes." He said Manning's
35-year prison term was "much longer than the sentence that was handed down to people who committed similar crimes that got much less attention."
The Damage Done
to America by Manning ... and Obama. [Scroll down] First, it is also disgraceful for the New York
Times to report without balance that "Prosecutors ... presented no evidence that anyone was killed because of [Manning's]
leaks." As the Times well knows, in cases involving classified information, the government frequently cannot
reveal — let alone prosecute — the damage done. As a practical matter, such revelations end up
disclosing more classified information and, critically, identifying other informants and countries who have covertly provided
national-security assistance to the United States. That is why it is always a gimmee for apologists of the Mannings,
Snowdens, and Clintons to minimize the harm they have done; it is generally impossible to provide concrete information to
counter this claim absent exposing more intelligence and endangering sources for obtaining it.
Obama
pardons Cartwright, source of Stuxnet virus leak. US President Barack Obama pardoned 64 people and commuted
sentences for an additional 209 on Wednesday [1/18/2017], among them retired Marine Corps four star general James Cartwright,
the alleged source of leaked information to the press detailing a cyber attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010.
Obama
Frees Chelsea Manning and 273 More Criminals. President Barack Obama announced his plan to free Chelsea Manning
(who changed his name from Bradley) after leaking classified military documents to Wikileaks and being sentenced to 35 years
in prison for his crimes. Once in prison, Manning went on a hunger strike to demand sex change surgery in prison, which
was granted by officials at the cost of American taxpayers. Obama included Manning on a list of prisoner commutations
announced late Tuesday afternoon, allowing him to be set free on May 17, 2017.
Jake
Tapper: Manning Commutation 'Contradicts the Last Eight Years' of White House on Leakers. CNN's Jake
Tapper reacted to President Obama's commutation of Chelsea Manning's sentence by pointing out how the White House has felt
about Manning, WikiLeaks, and leakers in general in the past eight years. Bill Kristol called this "great news for
Donald Trump" to start off, because it shifts focus away from him versus the intel community. Tapper pointed out that
Obama has used the Espionage Act to go after leakers a great deal more so than presidents past, and now for him to commute
the sentence of "one of the most notorious leakers... certainly contradicts the last eight years of policy in terms of leaking."
Obama
Commutes Almost All of Chelsea Manning's Sentence. President Obama on Tuesday commuted the bulk of Chelsea
Manning's 35-year prison sentence, which she received for providing classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010 pertaining to
details of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Manning was found guilty in 2013 and her sentence was originally set to
end on May 17, 2045. Now it will end in May of this year, taking 28 years off the conviction. [...] Manning, a
transgender woman whose first name was Bradley at the time, was a low-level intelligence analyst in the Army deployed to Iraq
when she copied 750,000 pages of military documents and videos.
Poll:
Most troops had unfavorable view of Obama. More than half of the nation's troops have an unfavorable opinion of
President Obama's time in office, though they're conflicted about his specific policies, according to a new poll. A
Military Times/Institute for Veterans and Military Families Poll showed 51.5 percent of military members polled had either a
very unfavorable or somewhat unfavorable view of Obama's time in office. About 36 percent saw his time in office was
either very favorable or somewhat favorable.
Obama's
farewell salute from the military as poll shows most unhappy with his years as commander-in-chief. President
Obama is leaving the White House with majority disapproval among members of the military for his role as commander in chief,
according to a new survey at the tail end of his presidency. Obama's move steep reduction of U.S. forces stationed in
Afghanistan after a troop surge, and his withdrawal of forces from Iraq in keeping with a status of forces agreement, doesn't
appear to have carried support in the the military.
Military
members hold negative view of President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama will leave office on Jan. 20 with
negative reviews from most members of the U.S. military. More than half the troops in a new poll had an unfavorable
opinion of Obama's leadership of the military for the past eight years, and about 36 percent said they approved of his
performance as commander in chief, according to the latest survey by the Military Times and the Institute for Veterans and
Military Families at Syracuse University.
Coming
Soon to the U.S. Army: Turbans, Beards, Hijabs, and Dreadlocks. The Army has issued a new
regulation: Effective immediately, brigade-level commanders will be able to grant accommodations to servicemen and
women who wear beards, turbans, or hijabs for religious reasons — the three most common requests for waivers to
current guidelines on grooming and dress, according to a letter from the Secretary of the Army, Eric Fanning. The new
guidelines also revise hairstyle standards for female soldiers: They can now wear dreadlocks in addition to cornrows
and twists, which were allowed in a revision made in 2014. Like other hairstyles, locks must be relatively small, uniform,
neat, and tied off inconspicuously, and women don't have to request an accommodation to wear them.
The
Hunt for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Should Start in the Executive Branch. Last month, Washington Post reporters obtained
confidential memos from the Department of Defense detailing an internal study from January 2015, which found $125 billion in
administrative waste. (Senator Jeff Flake's Wastebook, an annual catalogue of absurd federal spending, recently revealed
one particularly egregious example: The DOD spent $2 million to teach robots how to play jazz.) And yet officials
chose to bury the study and ignore its recommendations, said the Post, "amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to
slash the defense budget." Trump would be wise to revisit the report's findings and implement the reforms it suggested, which
are designed to reallocate funding to troops and weapons.
Maintenance
Delays Lead to No US Aircraft Carrier in Middle East. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and three other ships are
returning to American ports after a seven-month deployment, which will temporarily leave the U.S. without an aircraft carrier
in the Middle East.
No
US carrier at sea leaves gap in Middle East. For the next week, not only will there be no U.S. Navy aircraft
carrier in the Middle East, but there will be no American aircraft carriers deployed at sea anywhere else in the world,
despite a host of worldwide threats facing the United States.
General:
Muslim Brotherhood Inside Obama Administration. Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Tom McInerney, who served as both
assistant vice chief of staff and commander in chief of U.S. Air Forces Europe, has surprised interviewers on a radio program by
confirming the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood inside the U.S. government. The Islamic supremacist movement's influence
on Washington was reported in "Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from Office" by New York Times bestselling
authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott. The book documents that Obama aided the rise to power of Islamic extremist
groups in the Middle East as members served on important national security advisory boards. The book confirms the Obama
administration may have exposed national security information through Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff, who
has deep personal and family associations with the Muslim Brotherhood. Another key figure with Muslim Brotherhood ties is
Mohamed Elibiary, a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Council.
Navy SEALs 'Feel Politicized Under Obama'.
Perhaps the best known unit is SEAL Team Six, the group that successfully targeted and killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
But the fact we know they carried out the mission may also be the reason many of them are now dead. Instead of leaving
the identity of the men a mystery to the world, Vice President Joe Biden publicly identified them just two days after the raid.
Obama
ditches registry focused on immigrant men from Muslim countries. The original National Security Entry-Exit
Registration System, or NSEERs, launched about a year after 9/11, requiring men and boys from a variety of mostly Middle
Eastern countries to register with the federal government upon their arrival in the U.S. Registration, which also applied
to immigrants from North Korea, included fingerprints and photographs and a requirement to notify the government of any address
changes. But after the Obama administration suspended the program in 2011, the Department of Homeland Security put out a
notice Thursday [12/22/2016] officially removing what it called "outdated regulations" pertaining to the "obsolete" system.
Obama
dumps registry for some immigrant men, mostly Muslims. The Obama administration said Thursday [12/22/2016] it is officially
scrapping a post-9/11 requirement for immigrant men from predominantly Muslim countries to register with the federal government.
A Political Fad vs National
Security. The [Obama] administration's position appears to be that promotion of industrial wind energy is
more important than maintaining our military missions, assuring military readiness, and/or protecting the lives of military
personnel. [...] The primary justification of this aggressive wind energy promotion is that wind energy supposedly plays an
integral role in reducing climate change. However, this marketing claim does not hold up under careful scrutiny.
The fact is that there is zero scientific proof that wind energy makes any consequential contribution to alleviating climate
change. Zero scientific proof.
"Without
firing a bullet, the Chinese have now conquered multiple nations and taken over international waters". Well,
ladies and gentleman, China has stolen one of our drone boats, a scientific boat, with lots of technology on it, in
international waters off the Philippines. As our Navy was trying to pull in the boat, the Chinese stole it. As
the Chinese have militarized their fake islands, which they've put throughout the South China Sea, in violation of
international law, as the Chinese continue to threaten the navigable waters off of Japan in the East China Sea, as China
continues to hack into our databases — along with Russia — this is serious business. We're going
to need to muscle up the United States military, we're going to need to muscle up the United States navy, and we're going to
have to have a fleet. We're going to have to have a fleet in the South China Sea, a carrier group, our own little
island if you will. And the Chinese are going to have to be told, 'You do anything like that again, the boat will be
blown out of the water.'
Obama's
Effort to Force Women into Combat, Allow Transgender Troops Results in $135 Billion Cover-Up, Deaths. Just as
the newly-elected Trump administration is preparing to take office, America gets a surprise reveal from The Washington Post
that President Obama's Pentagon deliberately suppressed a 2015 report revealing $125 billion in wasteful spending could be
saved over five years. Secretary of Defense (not for long, [fortunately]!) Ashton Carter, his deputy Robert Work and
other underlings squashed the report and its findings, placing secrecy restrictions on it and removing it from public
view. They were busy with more important things like getting women into combat units and people with gender identity
confusion to serve openly. Exposed just three days after the $619 billion National Defense Authorization Act of 2017
was passed, it reeks of a cover-up.
Assessing
the Obama Legacy — Against His Own Mileposts. [For example,] "Honoring our nation's veterans." Obama's Department
of Veteran Affairs was mired in scandal, and some of its nightmarish VA hospitals were awash in disease and unnecessary deaths. Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki was forced to resign amid controversy. Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized for issuing
an offensive report falsely concluding that returning war vets were liable to join right-wing terrorist groups.
Naval
Academy Hosting 'Transgender 101' Training for Midshipmen. The U.S. Naval Academy is bringing in Google employees
to provide voluntary "Transgender 101" training to midshipmen this week as part of an ongoing "safe space" training series.
The academy's Center for Teaching and Learning is holding two events on Friday, one for faculty and staff and another for
midshipmen. The hour and a half-long workshops will be hosted by Marnie Florin and Kevin Perry, who are "transgender
trainers" for Google.
Obama:
U.S. must embrace Muslims to defeat terrorism. In a clear warning shot at President-elect Donald Trump,
President Obama said Tuesday the U.S. can only protect the homeland against terrorism by embracing Muslims and encouraging a
society "that can criticize a president without retribution." Speaking to special operations troops at MacDill Air Force
Base in Tampa, Florida, Mr. Obama delivered his final speech on the war on terrorism as a thinly veiled reminder for
Mr. Trump about "what we're fighting for." "The United States of America is not a country that imposes religious
tests as a price for freedom," Mr. Obama said in a reference to Mr. Trump's proposal to temporarily ban Muslim
immigrants. "The United States of America is not a place where some citizens have to withstand greater scrutiny or
carry a special ID card or prove that they're not an enemy from within."
US returning land
to Japan it's controlled since World War II. The US military this month will return to Japan's government more
than 9,800 acres of land it has held since World War II, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Tuesday [12/6/2016]. The
9,852 acres of land on the island of Okinawa, part of a territory officially referred to as the Northern Training Area,
is in a large US military base complex on the Pacific island more than 960 miles (1,550 kilometers) southwest of
Tokyo. The US had turned most of Okinawa over to Japan in 1972 after controlling it from the end of World War II in
1945. This is the largest return of US-occupied land since then.
Why
did Obama shut down a successful aerial surveillance program along the U.S.-Mexican border? The move to
terminate the project is in line with the Obama administration's lackadaisical approach to illegal immigration and serves to
underscore attempts by the administration to make the transition more difficult for the President-elect. In February
2016, the Obama administration cut funding to Operation Phalanx by 50 percent even though the project had been fully funded
by Congress and was by all accounts, demonstrably successful. But therein lies the problem. Operation Phalanx may
have been too successful for the administration's tastes. According to Watchdog.org, in the Laredo sector alone, "Operation
Phalanx accounted for 10,559 apprehensions and 4,007 'turnbacks' from March 2012 to December 2015. Phalanx was credited
with seizing 12,851 pounds of narcotics during the period."
With
Malicious Intent — Obama's Homeland Security Shuts Down Aerial Surveillance of Southern Border. The
U.S. Department of Homeland Security quietly shut down Operation Phalanx, an aerial surveillance program that intercepts
drugs and illegal crossings along the Mexican border. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, vows to challenge DHS's move,
saying Congress provided "full funding" for 2017. Cuellar, a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Homeland
Security Subcommittee, is drafting a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson protesting the shutdown.
Obama
'opens borders' in his final weeks by 'quietly shutting down surveillance scheme'. Barack Obama has been
accused of "opening" America's borders in the final weeks of his presidency by "quietly" shutting down the national border
surveillance programme. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Operation Phalanx, was launched in 2010 to supply
the National Guard with resources to monitor illegal border crossings and drug smuggling operations. But Obama closed
the programme, despite being fully funded for another year, because of a major reduction in illegal crossings.
Women
in Combat and Transgender Service Member Reform 'Makes Sense' Moving Forward, Carter Says. Defense Secretary
Ashton Carter said policies that opened up combat roles to women and allowed transgender members of the military to serve
openly are progress that "makes sense." En route to Twentynine Palms in California on Monday [11/14/2016], Carter was
asked during a media availability whether the Pentagon is concerned that reforms made during his tenure would be rolled back
in the upcoming year under new leadership.
The Editor asks...
If someone is perpetually confused about something as simple as his or her gender, how is that person an asset to the military?
Trump
adviser says military needs counterrevolution, reverse social engineering policies. A key congressional
supporter of Donald Trump says the president-elect's defense secretary should move quickly to reverse a number of social
engineering policies adopted in the Obama years that "have cut down on the warrior mentality." Rep. Duncan Hunter,
California Republican, told The Washington Times that the armed forces need a counterrevolution. It should reverse at
least three policies: women in the infantry, open transgender troops and the near-banishment of the word "man" from
Navy and Marine Corps titles.
The
Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Trump Hysterics. [Scroll down] Barack Obama has done such terrible damage to
our men and women who serve that he should be in the brig. He tied the hands of his generals who stayed. He fired
those, hundreds of them, who refused to do his anti-military bidding. Obama's ridiculous rules of engagement have been
the cause of hundreds, maybe even thousands of American deaths in Afghanistan. Our guys are hardly allowed to defend
themselves. Trump will change that.
Obama:
'It's Because of You That a Marine Can Serve His Country Without Hiding the Husband He Loves'. Speaking at the
University of North Carolina this afternoon, President Barack Obama told voters it was because of them that millions of
people had health care who did not have it before and Marines could enter publicly into same-sex marriages. "It is
because of you that millions of people have health care today that didn't have it before," Obama said. "It is because
of you that millions of young people are going to college that couldn't afford it before. It's because of you that a
Marine can serve his country without hiding the husband he loves. It is because of you that more young immigrants came
out of the shadows and are serving our country."
Soros
Money, Muslim Advocates Leader, Helped Weaken Homeland Security Policies. A Muslim legal group, girded with
$1.8 million in grant money from George Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF), has helped influence major policy changes in
the war on terror, including the Department of Homeland Security's screening of individuals with suspected terror ties and
the FBI's training program for its agents working in counterterrorism. Internal records, made public by the hacking
group DC Leaks, show OSF spent $40 million between 2008 and 2010 on programs aimed at weakening U.S. counterterrorism
policy. Muslim Advocates' Executive Director Farhana Khera played a key role in shaping the foundations' spending.
Khera co-authored a 2007 memo that "informed" the foundations' U.S. Programs Board's decision to create the National Security
and Human Rights Campaign (NSHRC), a Sept. 14, 2010 OSF document discussing the program's reauthorization, shows.
The military
may relax recruiting standards for fitness and pot use. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has launched a sweeping
review of the military's recruiting standards, saying current rules for screening new entrants may be "overly restrictive"
and preventing America's most talented young people from joining the ranks. Among the benchmarks that will get new
scrutiny: fitness standards, marijuana use, tattoo regulations and the military's longtime reluctance to allow single
parents to start military careers.
DoD:
Protections for transgender youth apply to all facilities, programs. All transgender youth are allowed to use
restrooms and other facilities consistent with their gender identity in Defense Department programs and activities, according
to a new DoD memo. In an Oct. 26 memo to the services and to the Department of Defense Education Activity, Todd Weiler,
assistant defense secretary for manpower and reserve affairs, said he has established a task force to establish procedures for
implementing the guidance.
Thousands
Of Soldiers Now Have To Pay Back Their Bonuses To The Pentagon, While Bad VA Employees Keep Theirs. The Obama
administration is targeting the bonuses of thousands of soldiers who signed up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, but left
entirely alone the bonuses handed to numerous employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), despite questionable
behavior. In an effort to fill a severe troop shortage, officials at the National Guard wrongfully gave bonuses to
thousands of troops who weren't supposed to receive them, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. Now, the Pentagon
wants that money back, sometimes with interest, even though these soldiers served honorably and also had no idea officials
were fraudulently doling out bonuses. Congress was apparently aware of this issue for at least two years.
First
transgender soldiers seek formal Army recognition. Within weeks of the Pentagon allowing transgender service
members to serve openly, Army officials said 10 soldiers have formally asked to be recognized as their new, preferred gender.
A detriment to morale: FDA
Clarifies That Ban On Cigar Donations To Troops Was Deliberate. The Food and Drug Administration has finally
confirmed that companies are banned from donating cigars to U.S. troops, according to an opinion piece in The Wall Street
Journal. In early September, GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Marine Corps reservist who served in Iraq and Afghanistan,
wrote a letter to the FDA asking for clarification on a confusingly worded regulation that could be interpreted as a ban on
companies donating cigars to troops. Now, Ramesh Menon, acting supervisory congressional affairs specialist for the FDA,
has cleared up the confusion in a response to Hunter's letter: yes, companies are most definitely banned from donating
cigars.
Pentagon
issues handbook on sex change in the ranks. Political correctness remains a central characteristic of the Obama
administration's policies. Take the Pentagon's new anti-discrimination policy on what a newly-published handbook calls
"gender dysphoria," or "the distress that some transgender individuals experience due to a mismatch between their gender and
their sex assigned at birth." Under the new policies, military commanders are now responsible for approving or denying
sex changes for troops who self-identify as the opposite sex, according to the 72-page handbook, "Transgender Service in the
U.S. Military: An Implementation Handbook," published Sept. 30.
Obama
to NatSec Agencies: Increase Diversity, Train on 'Implicit or Unconscious Bias'. President Obama issued a
memo to heads of government agencies today on increasing diversity in the national security workforce to make the diplomacy,
development, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security complex "more effective at problem solving than
homogeneous groups." The national security workforce in the federal government consists of more than 3 million workers
from agencies such as the Intelligence Community, USAID, Treasury Department, State Department, Justice Department, and the
Department of Homeland Security.
U.S.
Military Instructed To Be 'Sensitive' Of Pronoun Use, Warned Against Gender 'Assumptions'. A new Department of
Defense handbook on transgender persons released Friday instructs service members to be "sensitive" of each other's preferred
pronouns and warns against making "assumptions" about another person's gender. The handbook also states that
anti-transgender "bias" will not be tolerated and suggests that "attitudes, or comments that marginalize transgender Service
members" may constitute harassment.
Air
Force Announces It Will Mandate Diversity Quotas In Candidate Pools For Key Positions. The Air Force announced
a new set of 13 inclusion initiatives Friday [9/30/2016] with the goal of ensuring the force isn't as white, male and heterosexual as it
is now. Air Force officials are intent on building upon a foundation of nine initiatives from 2015, in order to boost
diversity. Those nine initiatives weren't enough to make the Air Force as diverse as desired, which is why it is taking
more intensive steps in 2016.
Navy
scuttles sailors' enlisted rating titles in huge career shake-up. The Navy deep-sixed all of its 91 enlisted
ratings titles Thursday, marking the beginning of an overhaul of the rigid career structure that has existed since the
Continental Navy in a radical shift sure to reverberate through the fleet and the veterans community beyond. Sailors
will no longer be identified by their job title, say, Fire Controlman 1st Class Joe Sailor, effective immediately.
Instead, that would be Petty Officer 1st Class Joe Sailor.
Pentagon's
top brass explores Islamic ideology's ties to terror. The National Military Strategy, authored by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff chairman, is one of the most important guidances issued to global combatant commanders. It prioritizes
threats to the nation and how to blunt them. The 2015 public version does not mention Islamic ideology. It lists
terrorists under the ambiguous category of "violent extremist organizations" and singles out al Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
Former
CIA Director: Political Correctness Kills Our Ability To Stop Radical Islamic Terror. Former CIA Director
James Woolsey said Monday on Fox & Friends that political correctness ruins the ability of law enforcement to stop radical
Islamic terror. [...] For Woolsey, the Obama administration's stringent refusal to label the attacks as radical Islam is a
huge mistake. "As long as we have to talk about things in a politically correct way and we can't say that it's Islamic
terror ... we are causing ourselves a massive amount of trouble," Woolsey said. "There's virtually nothing that's worse
than political correctness if you're trying to understand what's going on in something like a movement like radical Islam."
Obama
Directs Federal Agencies to Consider Climate Change As a National Security Issue. In a Sept. 21 memo to his
department heads, President Obama instructed all federal departments and agencies to consider the impact of climate change on
national security. Obama states that it is the policy of the U.S. government to ensure that current and anticipated
impacts of climate change be "identified and considered" in developing national security doctrine, policies and plans.
"Climate change poses a significant and growing threat to national security, both at home and abroad," the memo says.
Those threats, according to Obama, include flooding, drought, heat waves, intense precipitation, pest outbreaks, disease, and
electricity problems, all of which can "affect economic prosperity, public health and safety, and international stability."
Republicans
Demand Proof From Obama That Global Warming Is A National Security Threat. Republican lawmakers are demanding
the Obama administration back up with evidence a recent executive memoranda requiring federal officials to consider the
impact of global warming on national security. [...] President Barack Obama has argued global warming is a national security
concern for years, and now Republicans want the administration to show what sources it uses to issue orders to federal agencies.
Obama
orders climate change be considered in military planning. President Obama issued a new policy directive
Wednesday to consider the effects of climate change in developing national security policy and planning across all major
security agencies and the military. "Today, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum on Climate Change and
National Security, establishing a policy that the impacts of climate change must be considered in the development of national
security-related doctrine, policies, and plans," the White House said. "To achieve this, 20 federal agencies and
offices with climate science, intelligence analysis, and national security policy development missions and responsibilities
will collaborate to ensure the best information on climate impacts is available to strengthen our national security."
White House special assistant to the president, Alice Hill, told reporters that the presidential memo will "prioritize
climate threats" to identify the most significant risks to the nation's security and drive full consideration of climate
change effects into national security plans and policies.
Armed
forces chiefs confirm sense of Obama distrust. As the four armed forces chiefs testified in the Senate about
the national security dangers of mandated budget caps, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked each officer if he had discussed the
readiness crisis with President Obama. Their unanimous answers before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week
underscored a key aspect of the Obama presidency, noted by his own past defense secretaries and, in a recent disclosure, a
former NATO commander: The president maintains a wary approach in dealing with the four-star generals and admirals who
direct his wars.
Obama,
top leaders aren't discussing the military's biggest concern. As President Obama is threatening to veto a bill
to increase military spending, his top military chiefs told Congress the president has never personally discussed the matter
with them. The military service chiefs, whose primary job is to oversee the training and equipping of the America's
armed forces, uniformly described a looming crisis in combat readiness over the next five years, if mandatory spending caps
known as sequestration remain in place, in testimony Thursday [9/15/2016].
The
Wheedle and the Damage Done. No American president has ever done more damage to American national security or
America's standing in the world than Barack Obama. We've never had a president quite like him before. I think the
damage is attributable to his rabid belief in the myths of the left-wing critique of the United States.
Obama
purged military of those who sought victory. Almost as soon as he took office, President Obama began a military
purge not dissimilar to those routinely conducted by third-world despots, with the goal of eliminating voices that might
oppose his withdrawing America from the world stage. [...] President Abraham Lincoln kept firing generals until he found the
likes of Sherman and Grant, with the will and ability to win. Somehow I don't think victory anywhere is President
Obama's goal. Donald Trump was right: President Obama has reduced the U.S. military to rubble.
The
Dragon Comes With a Suitcase. The Era of Hope and Change has been one prolonged act of suicide. If anyone
had said that Obama would manage to alienate Israel and the Philippines, lose Turkey, pay Iran a hundred billion dollars,
preside over the loss of a won war in Afghanistan, lose billions of dollars in military equipment to ISIS, watch a consulate
burn, restart the Cold War with Russia, cause Japan to re-arm and go the knife's edge with China would you have believed it?
Obama
Admin Wants to Cut Army's Force Size by 25,000 by 2018. The Obama administration is seeking to cut the U.S.
Army's total force size by 25,000 soldiers by 2018, bringing America's force strength down to 450,000 from its current size
of 475,000, according to a new congressional report that shines a spotlight on a growing debate over how large the force
should be. Both chambers of Congress and the White House hold disparate views about how large the U.S. Army should be,
according to a new congressional research report that highlights the differences between the governing bodies. While
the Obama administration's Defense Department is seeking to cut the force by 25,000 over current levels, the House is
proposing to grow the Army by 5,000. The Senate is proposing to cut levels by 15,000.
Obama's
socially engineered military is full of anti-Christian wusses. Back in June, during the height of graduation
season, I wrote a piece about how an organization known as the Military Religious Freedom Foundation successfully banned
retired Lt. General Jerry Boykin from speaking at a prayer breakfast at Ft. Riley Army Base because he was
supposedly anti-Muslim and anti-gay. It turns out the real reason he was banned was due to the fact that he's also a
professing Christian, as we learned from the founder of MRFF, Mikey Weinstein: "(Boykin) sows hatred and heinous
divisiveness with his sickening screed of fundamentalist Christian supremacy ..." Weinstein went on to say how
Boykin's appearance was causing unnamed soldiers to actually break down in tears.
House
Armed Services chairman blasts Obama for military pay cut. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
blasted President Obama Thursday evening [9/1/2016] for undercutting members of the military by suggesting a 1.6 percent
annual pay raise, which falls below the 2.1 percent figure mandated by law. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said
federal workers and the military have historically received 2 to 3 percent raises, but the Obama administration has cut
those annual bumps in recent years. "Few people are more deserving of a full pay raise than our men and women in uniform,"
Thornberry said. "Yet, at the same time President Obama is proposing significant increases in military deployments and
expanding existing missions, he is cutting the pay raise for our troops for the fourth year in a row."
House
Intel Committee Members: Largest-Ever Gitmo Release Endangers U.S. Troops. Republicans on the House
intelligence committee said Wednesday that the Obama administration's largest release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay
endangers American troops, and that the president will be fully responsible for any American casualties resulting from the
transfer. Fourteen Republicans, including all GOP members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
penned a letter to Obama objecting to the release of 15 detainees from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base,
arguing that the administration's decision to release "increasingly dangerous terrorists" from U.S. custody jeopardizes U.S.
forces operating abroad.
Lt.
Gen. Mike Flynn: Obama, Hillary Ignored Intelligence They Did Not Like About Middle East, Only Wanted 'Happy
Talk'. Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, who served for more than two years as the director of President
Barack Obama's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), leveled explosive charges against the President and his former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton in an exclusive hour-long interview with Breitbart News Daily on Friday [8/26/2016]. Specifically,
during an exclusive interview about his book The Field of Fight, Flynn said that Obama and Clinton were not interested
in hearing intelligence that did not fit their "happy talk" narrative about the Middle East. In fact, he alleged the
administration actively scrubbed training manuals and purged from the military ranks any thinking about the concept of
radical Islamism.
Gen.
Tata: President's Briefer Told CENTCOM Official to Alter Intel on ISIS. U.S. Army Brigadier Gen.
Anthony Tata (Ret.) appeared on "The Five" today [8/15/2016] to reveal some exclusive information about the White House's
role in CENTCOM's distortion of intelligence to downplay the threats of ISIS and Al Qaeda. Tata revealed that a source
verified to him that he was directed by an individual from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who conducts
the president's daily briefing, to stop producing "products of record" that did not fit the administration's narrative of a
defeated Al Qaeda and a non-threatening enemy in ISIS.
Politicized Intelligence: Telling the
Boss What He Wants to Hear. The report is based, in part, on a survey of CENTCOM intelligence analysts.
The survey found that after the mid-2013 departure of CENTCOM commander Marine General James Mattis, imposed management
changes made the environment toxic for intelligence analysts. Forty percent of the analysts reported that they had
experienced management attempts to distort or suppress intelligence within the past year. The report also says that
despite receiving the survey results in December 2015 as well as whistleblower complaints, "...neither CENTCOM, the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, nor the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) took any demonstrable steps to improve the analytic climate within CENTCOM." For a bureaucratic
underling to tell his boss what the boss wants to hear is par for the course in mismanaged organizations. But this is
vastly worse.
Obama
to Circumvent Congress and Push UN Anti-Nuclear Testing Resolution. Last week, Josh Rogin reported for the Washington Post that President Obama
will seek a United Nations Security Council resolution that, at the very least, calls for an end to nuclear testing. According to Rogin, the president's
diplomatic gambit is to occur in September — around the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which President Clinton signed but the
U.S. Senate rejected during ratification. By end-running the Senate at the UN, Obama hopes to make good on his promise, made over seven years ago in a
major address in Prague, to "aggressively pursue U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty." Unfortunately, the move is quintessentially
Obama — contemptuous of Congress and utopian as policy.
U.S.
Air Force laments that it's short of pilots. The U.S. Air Force faces a shortfall of 700 fighter pilots by the
end of the year and as many as 1,000 pilots within a few years, Air Force officials said Wednesday [8/10/2016]. "It is a
crisis," said Gen. David Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff. "Air superiority is not an American birthright.
It's actually something you have to fight for and maintain." Aggressive hiring by commercial airlines has helped thin the ranks
of Air Force pilots, and lengthy deployments overseas, long separations from family and reduced flying time when back on U.S. soil
have exacerbated the problem, Goldfein said.
Hypocrisy: Obama:
Trump 'trash-talking' the U.S. military. President Obama said Monday that he's had enough of "some people"
trash-talking the U.S. military, his latest attempt to warn voters about Donald Trump without specifically naming the GOP
nominee. "As commander in chief, I'm pretty tired of some people trash-talking America's military and troops," Obama
told the Disabled American Veterans group during their annual gathering in Atlanta on Monday [8/1/2016].
Obama's
Dangerous Plan to Abandon a Key Nuclear Deterrent. Barack Obama's foreign policy has always been defined by
ticking the boxes the far Left long wanted ticked. Now he's contemplating one more, by far the most dangerous of all:
unilateral nuclear disarmament, or at least a rough approximation thereof. After reducing the size of our nuclear arsenal to
dangerous levels, the Washington Post reports that Obama is considering a "no first use" policy with regard to nukes.
Peaceniks around the world will cheer; the rest of us will shudder.
Alphabet Soup Corruption.
[Scroll down] Perhaps no agency has been rendered more suspect that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE,
largely because U.S. immigration enforcement for all practical purposes has been rendered null and void, and no longer can or will
stop illegal immigration from crossing the southern border.
Rick
Perry: Obama 'Corroded Our Military'. Former Texas governor Rick Perry said President Obama has "corroded
our military" in remarks at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday [7/20/2016]. Perry devoted his speech at an
event hosted by FRC Action and the Susan B. Anthony List to veterans' issues, saying he trusts Republican nominee Donald
Trump to put veterans first if he is elected president. "Today I don't think we are where we need to be," Perry said. "We're
not where we need to be with those active-duty military men and women. The current administration has corroded our military."
Pentagon
Officials: Modernizing Nukes 'Crucial' To Security, Yet Obama Wants To Disarm. Several top Department of
Defense officials told Congress Thursday a multi-billion dollar nuclear modernization effort is key to maintaining U.S.
security, though President Obama plans to push for U.S. nuclear disarmament in his final months in office. "Our
capabilities as a whole have lasted well beyond their designed service life," said Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of
U.S. Strategic Command in his testimony. "It is crucial that we modernize our strategic deterrence capabilities, which
underpin our national and global security."
Pentagon
issues sex change manual, allows extended time off for process. The U.S. military has a manual for everything, from how to dress
to how to wage war. Now the Pentagon has sent out a detailed written instruction to commanders on how a service member can change his or
her sex in a step-by-step process that allows for extended time off. The directive restricts personnel from living their "preferred gender"
lifestyle, or "Real Life Experience," on a military base among peers until the sex change transition is complete. The Army, Air Force,
Marine Corps and Navy must set up a bureaucracy — dubbed the Service Central Coordination Cell — to guide commanders
overseeing sex change transitions.
Obama
Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief. President Barack Obama twice appointed former Lt. Gen. Michael T.
Flynn to key national security jobs in his administration, including as deputy director of national intelligence and later as director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, yet he never once met with Flynn face to face. The general, who spent 33 years in the intelligence
field, told The Daily Caller News Foundation he was never called in for a face-to-face meeting with Obama to offer his assessment of ISIS as
it rampaged through the Middle East, or during the political meltdown of Libya and Egypt, or on Iran's efforts to build a nuclear bomb, or
of the "Russian reset" that ended in shambles.
Bombshell:
Obama Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief. President Barack Obama twice appointed former
Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn to key national security jobs in his administration, including as deputy director of
national intelligence and later as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, yet he never once met with Flynn face to
face. The general, who spent 33 years in the intelligence field, told The Daily Caller News Foundation he was
never called in for a face-to-face meeting with Obama to offer his assessment of ISIS as it rampaged through the Middle East,
or during the political meltdown of Libya and Egypt, or on Iran's efforts to build a nuclear bomb, or of the "Russian reset"
that ended in shambles.
Obama
plans major nuclear policy changes in his final months. [Scroll down] Several U.S. officials briefed on
the options told me they include declaring a "no first use" policy for the United States' nuclear arsenal, which would be a
landmark change in the country's nuclear posture. Another option under consideration is seeking a U.N. Security Council
resolution affirming a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons. This would be a way to enshrine the United States' pledge
not to test without having to seek unlikely Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The administration
is also considering offering Russia a five-year extension of the New START treaty's limits on deployed nuclear weapons, even
though those limits don't expire until 2021. This way, Obama could ensure that the next administration doesn't let the
treaty lapse.
The
military fired me for calling our enemies radical jihadis. [Scroll down] I felt the intel system was way
too politicized, especially in the Defense Department. After being fired, I left the meeting thinking, "Here we are in
the middle of a war, I had a significant amount of combat experience (nearly five years) against this determined enemy on the
battlefield and served at senior levels, and here it was, the bureaucracy was letting me go." Amazing. At the
time, I was working very hard to change the culture of DIA from one overly focused on Washington, DC, to a culture that
focused on our forward-based war fighters and commanders. It was not an easy shift, but it was necessary and exactly
the reason I was put into the job in the first place. In the end, I was [angry] but knew that I had maintained my
integrity and was determined in the few months I had left to continue the changes I was instituting and to keep beating the
drum about the vicious enemy we were facing (still are).
Video:
Pentagon Celebrates Islamic 'Month of Jihad'. An update on the Pentagon's taxpayer-funded but invitation-only
Ramadan feast, thanks to reader Martin for this video in which the Pentagon not only celebrates Ramadan but seems to promote
Islam and rewrite history. They even had the gall to publish this video on Independence Day, July 4. [...] And while we
haven't yet translated the transcript, it appears that someone at the Pentagon is trying to claim two African-American slaves
who fought in the Revolutionary War were Muslims... although there is no evidence whatsoever that they were.
Obama's
PC military rules are putting America at grave risk. On the eve of the Fourth of July holiday, the left-wing
regime of President Obama, who finds our system of government distasteful and our military despicable, once again stabbed our
soldiers in the back. Twice. Presented with an assessment that five years of drone strikes that successfully
targeted thousands of Islamist terrorists had killed a mere 64 to 116 civilians, the president didn't praise our military's
unprecedented precision. Instead, he called for more restrictions on targeting. Simultaneously, his hapless
henchman, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, announced the lifting of all restrictions on transgender individuals serving in
our military. The road to defeat is paved with noble intentions. Both of these seemingly disparate issues demand
objective scrutiny.
Obama's
Green Policies Threaten America's Energy Security. The threat of a devastating cyber attack on the U.S.
electrical grid is increasing due to the Obama administration's politically correct policies that spend vast sums on green
and smart grid technologies while failing to secure power grids from cyber attack. A report by the Manhattan Institute,
a New York think tank, warns that the push to integrate wind and solar electrical power into the $6 trillion electric utility
system has created new vulnerabilities that other nations could exploit in a future cyber war. "Electric grids have
always been vulnerable to natural hazards and malicious physical attacks," writes Mark Mills, a physicist and engineer who
authored the Manhattan Institute report. "Now the U.S. faces a new risk — cyber attacks — that
could threaten public safety and greatly disrupt daily life."
Intelligence
Community Held 12 Diversity and Inclusion Seminars Last Year. The intelligence community held 12 seminars on
diversity and inclusion last year, including "unconscious bias" training and a women's summit that focused on "emotional
intelligence." An employee resource group on "Islamic Culture" is also offered for employees of the National Security
Agency to provide "cultural sensitivity." The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its annual
demographics report this month, which detailed the number of community-wide events the intelligence community held during
fiscal year 2015. One event, last September, was run by the former "Global Diversity and Talent Program Manager" for
Google, Judith Williams.
US
military lifts ban on transgenders serving openly. Transgender people will be allowed to serve openly in the
U.S. military, the Pentagon announced Thursday [6/30/2016], ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces.
Pentagon
ends transgender ban. The Pentagon said Thursday it was ending the ban on transgender people being able to
serve openly in the U.S. military. The announcement — which removes one of the last barriers to military
service by any individual — was made by Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who had been studying the issue for almost a
year. The decision comes as the military has witnessed major changes in the role of women and the inclusion of gays,
lesbians and bisexual service members in recent years.
U.S.
Military to Allow Soldiers to Crossdress. Military personnel who wish to dress as the opposite sex may now do
so, according to an announcement from Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter. Carter said, however, that new recruits would
have to crossdress for at least 18 months prior to joining the military, presumably to avoid last-minute transitions from one
mode of dress to another. Still, if a member of the armed forces wishes to swap genders while serving on active duty, that
person may be able to do so "if a military medical provider determines it is necessary," according to reports. If any soldier
would like to take a further step and undergo gender reassignment surgery, the Pentagon would cover the medical costs, Carter added.
Senator:
Navy Evaluates Commanders Based On Climate Change Views. Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
recently told people gathered in New York City that global warming "denial" hurts U.S. soldiers in the field and that the
"main problem" with the military is its reluctance to join the climate crusade. "The problem has been that the
uniformed military has been reluctant to put its voice into — or its image into this fight," Whitehouse said,
according to a YouTube video posted Thursday [6/30/2016].
Obama
Pushes Military to Salute Transgender, Cross-Dressing Soldiers. President Barack Obama is forcing the Pentagon
to repeal its ban on transgender service members, meaning U.S. soldiers will soon be serving under the command of
cross-dressing soldiers. The policy change is another example of how progressives bypass Congress and the voters by
using the military to promote and advance social changes nationwide. Since 2009, for example, the military has been
used to aid illegal immigrants and to help change the definition of marriage so that it can include single-sex
couples — regardless of the far-left policies' impact on combat readiness and recruitment.
U.S. Set to Lift Ban on Openly
Transgender Troops. Nearly a year ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the U.S. military's ban on the open
service of transgender troops was "outdated" and promised the policy would be reviewed. Advocacy groups had grown
impatient in the early months of this year, but a report late Friday indicates their wait is almost over. USA Today,
citing an unnamed Department of Defense official, reports the ban will end on July 1 and that Pentagon officials are
gathering to finalize the details in the coming days. Individual branches of the armed services would have a year to
implement new policies. A study commissioned by the Department of Defense and conducted by the RAND Corporation found
that there "would be few hurdles to allowing transgender people to serve openly," the New York Times recently reported.
Marine
Corps forced to pull warbirds out of 'boneyard' after new fleet delay. The Marines are looking for a few good
planes, and their search has taken them to an Arizona boneyard where the Corps' old F/A Hornets have been gathering dust and
rust for years. The jets are being reclaimed and refurbished by Boeing after the service branch was caught short on
planes because of long delays in the rollout of the much-awaited F-35. [...] It's not the first time the military has brought
back decommissioned planes from the graveyard. The Marines pulled and restored several retired heavy-lift helicopters
during the height of the Iraq War to help with a shortfall in the fleet as a result of heavy usage and crashes.
What is Treason? We are not
at war with Mexico, yet Mexico sends us millions of people through illegal channels. In normal times, this would be
called an invasion. It would be grounds for war. If millions of Americans illegally crossed into Mexico,
certainly the international community would condemn it as a warlike act. Are those within the government that support
this via aid and succor treasonous? I don't know the jurisprudence to make such a decision, naturally, but I do suggest
that this should be investigated. If they are illegal immigrants, the decision is simple: deport them. They
are active agents of chaos and destruction and have no right to be here. If they are legal immigrant citizens, then the
charge of treason should be investigated. They have violated their oaths.
DHS
Whistleblower: Deleted Records on Muslims Might Have Stopped Attacks. Former Department of Homeland
Security officer Philip Haney said he believes that the Orlando and San Bernardino attacks are related and that both might
have been prevented had the DHS not deleted records he compiled on Muslims with terror ties. Haney told Hannity he
discovered that the mosque where Omar Mateen worshipped was connected to the same network as the mosque where Syed Farook and
Tashfeen Malik worshipped. "Farook would have been put on the no-fly list and not allowed to travel, or his pending
fiancé would have been denied a visa because of his affiliation with an organization with plausible ties to
terrorism," he said.
Deleted
Records Tying Muslims to Terrorism Might Have Stopped Attacks. Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," former
Department of Homeland Security official Philip Haney insisted terrorism in Orlando, FL and San Bernardino, CA might have
been prevented had the his former agency not deleted a list he compiled linking some Muslims with terrorism. Haney told
host Sean Hannity he was able to link a mosque where San Bernardino shooters Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik worshiped to a
network that tied the mosque where Orlando shooter Omar Mateen worshiped, but under the leadership of President Barack Obama,
that database was deleted.
DHS
ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties. Amid the chaos of the 2009 holiday travel season,
jihadists planned to slaughter 290 innocent travelers on a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit,
Michigan. Twenty-three-year old Nigerian Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab intended to detonate Northwest Airlines
Flight 253, but the explosives in his underwear malfunctioned and brave passengers subdued him until he could be
arrested. The graphic and traumatic defeat they planned for the United States failed, that time. Following the
attempted attack, President Obama threw the intelligence community under the bus for its failure to "connect the dots." He
said, "this was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we
already had." Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security,
where I worked, his condemnation caused. His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been
engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years,
and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration
was ordering they be wiped away.
Obama's
Question: What's In A Name? Obama wants to treat our enemies as individual criminals, lone wolves and nut
jobs. Since he is the commander-in-chief, he defines the policy parameters under which our military and intelligence
agencies operate. The Orlando murderer was interviewed by the FBI, which discovered his associations with radical
Islamic terrorists, and jihadist sympathies, but dropped him off the radar because the FBI was looking for crimes which he
hadn't (yet) committed. If on the other hand the FBI had been looking for soldiers in a war conducted by radical
Islamic terrorists, they would have kept him on the radar and extended their investigation until maybe they would have
saved 50 innocent lives.
DHS
report before Orlando massacre: Don't offend Muslims while combating extremism. A report by the Homeland
Security Advisory Council released days before the Islamic terror attack in Orlando, Florida, stressed the importance of
combating extremism by avoiding terms that might offend Muslims. A HSAC subcommittee first created by DHS Secretary Jeh
Johnson in 2015 published its report on June 9. Some instructions found in the report include: •
Officials should not use the word "jihad." • Officials should not use the word "sharia."
• Officials should not use the word "takfir," which is done when one Muslim accuses another of
apostasy. • Officials are instructed to "reject religiously-charged terminology and problematic
positioning by using plain meaning American English."
Homeland
Security Instructed To Combat Violent Extremism With Political Correctness. Less than a week before Omar Mateen
walked into an Orlando gay club and killed or wounded more than 100 people, the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC)
submitted its Countering Violent Extremism report to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson. The
report instructs the DHS not to use any language that might be "disrespectful" to Muslims, including (but not limited to) the
words "jihad," "sharia" and "takfir." The report was crafted by an HSAC subcommittee that Secretary Johnson created in
November 2015. The head of that subcommittee, Farah Pandith, was appointed by Johnson in May 2015. The subcommittee
published the report on June 9. In addition to combatting violent extremism by reaching out to "gender diverse" Americans
and teaching youth "appropriate online etiquette," the report recommends that the DHS "avoid stigmatizing specific communities."
Did
FBI Training Material Purge Cause Dropped Ball On Orlando Shooter? Could the FBI's purge of training material
relating to Islamic terrorism have led to the agency dropping the ball on Florida nightclub shooter Omar Mateen?
Mateen, who called 911 and pledged his allegiance to ISIS Saturday night, killed 50 and wounded dozens of others at a gay
nightclub in Orlando was interviewed by the FBI for possible links to terrorism multiple times. The FBI was the target
of criticism when it was found that no action was taken when it was discovered that 2013 Boston bombers Tamerlan and Dzokhar
Tsarnaev were known to the FBI, when Russia sent a warning out about them. Additionally, 2012 Fort Hood shooter Major
Nidal Hassan was never investigated by the FBI, a report said, because of political correctness.
Anchors
Away — Obama Sinks U.S. Navy. As China builds military bases on man-made islands in the South China
Sea, the staggering decline in U.S. naval readiness was made clear when a group of Navy captains testified before an unusual
joint hearing of the House Armed Services Committee's seapower and readiness subcommittees last week. It was made clear
that President Ronald Reagan's 600-ship Navy is a distant memory as we return to the Jimmy Carter era of ships that can't
sail and planes that can't fly for want of spare parts. This sad state of affairs is accomplishing what the Japanese
Imperial Navy could not — defeat the U.S. Navy and leave the seas increasingly open to hostile adversaries and
leaving us increasingly unable to come to the aid of our remaining allies.
A Leader Without a Moral Compass.
It is Obama's narcissism that proposes a world without nuclear weapons. What dictatorship could be trusted to keep such
a promise? A world without nuclear weapons is like an America without guns. In the latter, only criminals will
have guns; in the former, only aggressive dictatorships will possess nuclear weapons — in secret. The
mindless left, which thinks solving the world's problems is like the staging of a college seminar, is cheering Obama
on. But those who suffered at the hands of the Japanese have had the salt of his hubris rubbed into their wounds and
their traumas resurrected. How will America serve in the future as a force for peace anywhere in the world? Who
in the Middle East will view this with anything but disgust and apprehension? A nation that desecrates its own history
and makes a mockery of the sacrifices of its heroes is a nation not to be trusted.
The Obama Navy as Farce.
[Scroll down] Two weeks ago Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) got our attention when he said that the classified
information about the incident, if made public, would shock the American people. He said that we would be shocked by
not only how Iran treated our sailors but also how the Obama administration responded. As Forbes pointed out, Obama did
nothing at all to help the sailors while they were in captivity. [...] Forbes pointed out that as soon as Obama came into
office he began about $780 billion of cuts in defense spending over ten years to which sequestration added another
$500 billion in cuts. He said that one of the first things the Obama administration did was issue gag orders for
everyone in the Pentagon — both military and civilian — so that they couldn't even tell Congress what
repercussions there would be from its massive cuts.
How
Barack Obama's Foreign Policy De-Stabilized the World. In 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and
French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier warned Adolf Hitler that if the Third Reich invaded Poland, a European war would
follow. Both leaders insisted that they meant it. But Hitler thought that after getting away with militarizing
the Rhineland, annexing Austria, and dismantling Czechoslovakia, the Allied appeasers were once again just bluffing.
England and France declared war two days after Hitler entered Poland. Once hard-won deterrence is lost, it is almost
impossible to restore credibility without terrible costs and danger.
"When you want to take a country down, first you neutralize its military capability." How
Obama transformed the military. There is no question that America's worldwide leadership, power and influence
have been significantly degraded over the last seven and a half years. The basic reason, regretfully, is that President
Obama has been very successful in the implementation of his goal to fundamentally transform America. In so doing, he
has undercut the Judeo-Christian foundation of this great country while at the same time promoting the advancement of Islam
throughout our society — including the U.S. military. Clearly, any thinking American understands that this
transformation, at its core, is anti-American and anti-Western. Yet it is also pro-Islam, pro-Iranianand pro-Muslim
Brotherhood. Compounding this travesty is Mr. Obama's decision to embrace our sworn enemies.
Why
People Can't Face the Truth about Obama. America is Barack Obama's prey. He is tearing America apart and feeding the pieces
of her life to his foreign and domestic fellow travelers. He is not transforming the nation but terminating it. Even the most
transformational administrations haven't enabled the murder of Americans by declared enemies, weakened the national defense, mocked the
concerns, and dimmed the hopes of average Americans as this president has. Even the highly transformational Franklin Roosevelt
did not return Nazi generals to the enemy during the war as Obama did in the Bergdahl swap. Roosevelt did not entertain and enrich
Nazi bigwigs as Obama has the Muslim Brotherhood. Imagine Roosevelt facilitating German atom bomb research and enriching the Axis
powers as Obama has in the Iran deal. No president has erased the nation's borders at land and sea as Obama in advertising inducements
for an invasion from around the world. No president in American history has aided enemies, undermined the economy and derided the
American people as the current commander-in-chief. The immensity of Obama's disloyalty is key to why people cannot face the
truth about him.
Retired
Air Force General: Obama 'Unilaterally Disarmed America'. Russian and Chinese militaries are increasingly
trying to bully American forces because they are "taking advantage of our weakness" and "publicly humiliating us," according
to a respected retired Air Force general and Fox News military analyst. "It's a slap in the face" to the United States,
Retired General Tom McInerney says, and President Barack Obama "should not accept that kind of behavior." The president
"unilaterally disarmed America," adding "we have all these social experiments," according to McInerney's 18-minute exclusive
video interview for The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Vice
President Biden says 'more women and openly gay soldiers will strengthen the country's armed forces'. Vice
President Joe Biden told the U.S. Military Academy's class of 2016 on Saturday [5/21/2016] that greater diversity, including
more women and openly gay soldiers, will strengthen the country's armed forces. He told the crowds: 'Having men and
women together in the battlefield is an incredible asset, particularly when they're asked to lead teams in parts of the world
with fundamentally different expectations and norms.' Biden made his speech at the graduation ceremony held at Michie
Stadium on the West Point grounds along the Hudson River.
Costly
Renewable Energy Regulations Prevent Our Military From Doing Its Job. The Obama administration is aggressively
defending costly renewable energy initiatives for the Department of Defense. These requirements mandate that the
Department of Defense produce or procure "not less than 25 percent" of its facility energy from renewable energy sources by
fiscal year 2025. By forcing its political agenda onto the military, the Obama administration prioritizes inefficient
renewable energy initiatives at the expense of U.S. military strength and taxpayers.
Senate
confirms first openly gay Army secretary. The Senate on Tuesday afternoon [5/17/2016] confirmed the first openly gay Army
Secretary. The Senate approved Eric Fanning to lead the Army by unanimous consent, after his nomination had been held in limbo for
months because of a fight over the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) said Tuesday that he had dropped
his hold on Fanning's nomination because the "clock has run out" for the president to move Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States.
Navy
secretary: Green energy saves Marines' lives. Ray Mabus has had his job since June 2009, making him the
longest serving Navy secretary since World War I. In that time, he has shifted the focus of the Navy and Marine Corps to
renewable energy and increased experimentation with biofuels, pushed to open previously closed jobs to women and doubled the number
of ships ordered under the previous administration.
'Wiped
Out': Air Force losing pilots and planes to cuts, scrounging for spare parts. It was just a few years ago, in
March 2011, when a pair of U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers — during a harsh winter storm — took off from
their base in South Dakota to fly across the world to launch the air campaign in Libya, only 16 hours after given the
order. Today, many in the Air Force are questioning whether a similar mission could still be accomplished, after years
of budget cuts that have taken an undeniable toll. The U.S. Air Force is now short 4,000 airmen to maintain its fleet,
short 700 pilots to fly them and short vital spare parts necessary to keep their jets in the air. The shortage is
so dire that some have even been forced to scrounge for parts in a remote desert scrapheap known as "The Boneyard."
Navy
SEAL Publishes Book on Absence of Victory Under Obama. On May 10 former Navy SEAL 10 member Carl Higbie
published Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: A Navy SEAL's Story. The book highlights the difficulty of
winning on the battle under President Obama and the equally daunting task of telling the truth of the enhanced politicization
of the military post-George W. Bush.
Army waives
grooming rules for Sikh recruit from California. California resident Harpal Singh begins his Army training this
week, unshorn and religiously intact. Facing legal and political heat, including from Central Valley lawmakers, the
Army is accommodating Singh and several other soldiers whose Sikh faith sets unique grooming and clothing requirements.
The beginning of Singh's military service marks a victory for Sikhs.
Army
has fewest active-duty soldiers since 1940, report says. The number of U.S. Army soldiers on active duty has
been reduced to its lowest since 1940, according to a published report. The Army Times reported this weekend that the
Army's endstrength for March was 479,172. That's 154 fewer soldiers than the service's previous post-World War II
low, which was reached during the Army's post-Cold War drawdown in 1999. The current number is still well above the 269,023
soldiers on duty in 1940, the year before America entered World War II. However, the report says the active force has
been reduced by more than 16,500 troops over the past year — the equivalent of about three brigades.
U.S.
Army cuts leave the fewest active-duty soldiers since pre-World War II. The number of active-duty soldiers in
the Army is the lowest its been since before World War II. The Army Times reports that the number of soldiers on active
duty for March was 479,172 which is the smallest active-duty force since 1940 — the year before the U.S. entered World War II.
At that time there were just 269,023 soldiers on active duty. The current force is also 154 soldiers less than the post-Cold War
drawdown in 1999.
The Betrayal of the
USS Cole. Most Americans have grown numb to the parade of Islamic terrorists triumphantly exiting Gitmo as free
men. No matter their risk rating, the Arabic names, the dark smirks and scowls all come to blend together. But
[Mashur Abdallah Ahmed al] Sabri is not just another Bin Laden bodyguard or operative. His cell has American blood on
its hands. The USS Cole attack was the final step on the road to 9/11. Our government's inaction sent a message that
America could be hit hard and we would not retaliate. It told Al Qaeda that American blood was dirt cheap and that the
murder of our people came with no price. These days we are sending that same message all over again.
'Politically
correct' Obama admin weakening military: Ex-Navy SEAL. A former U.S. special operations forces member is
lashing out at the Obama White House, accusing the administration of instilling a culture of conformity within the U.S.
military, which has led to a generation of apologists and a dearth of leadership among the services' top brass. Former
Navy SEAL Carl Higbie recounted his firsthand experience with this new breed of military leadership during an interview
Tuesday [5/3/2016] on Tim Constantine's "Capitol Hill Show." Mr. Higbie, a member of SEAL Team 10, recalled
the time when he and his eight-man team were brought up on charges of prisoner abuse after their 2009 capture of
al Qaeda in Iraq leader Ahmed Hashim Abd al-Isawi in Fallujah.
Why
Russian planes are playing 'chicken' with US forces. In at least two incidents in the same area last month,
Russian jets repeatedly buzzed the guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cole, coming within 100 feet of the ship. The
Pentagon called the Russian maneuver a "simulated attack profile." But when President Obama had Vladimir Putin on the
phone, the subject never came up. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says he raised the issue with Russian Ambassador
Sergey Kislyak, who "laughed me off." No surprise. Ever since Obama blinked at enforcing his red line in Syria,
America's foes have held Washington in contempt.
Obama's
Green Agenda Should Be Kept Out of National Security. This week I will be offering an amendment to this year's
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prevent scarce defense dollars from being squandered on President Barack Obama's
executive orders regarding climate change. These executive orders require the Department of Defense (DOD) to incorporate
a host of climate change bureaucracies into its acquisition programs, logistics planning, and military plans and operations.
The military is also required to help state and local governments "go green." These activities are simply not the mission
of the U.S. military. They harm readiness rather than contribute to the lethality of our armed forces. The military's
mission is to train for and fight our nation's wars, not assist state and local governments with their carbon emissions levels.
A detriment to morale: another social engineering experiment, using the soldiers as guinea pigs: Team
Obama raising tobacco prices at U.S. military bases to curb smoking. The Pentagon is looking to raise the price
of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco sold on U.S. military installations worldwide, in an attempt to ween U.S. service members
from tobacco use. Defense Secretary Ash Carter codified the policy in an April 8th department-wide memorandum, which
also expanded smoke-free areas on American military bases, according to Reuters. The new tobacco policy would increase
prices on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco sold at U.S. military commissaries and post exchanges to match the price of
tobacco products sold off base, which are subject to state and local taxes.
Why make an announcement like this? My guess is that Obama has never played poker. President
Obama To Announce U.S. Is Sending 250 Military Personnel To Syria. President Obama announced Monday [4/25/2016] that the
U.S. will send up to 250 additional military personnel to Syria. The announcement signals a significant expansion of the American
military presence in the country, from 50 personnel up to 300.
President
Obama marches armed forces leftward. President Obama has become one of the nation's most successful commanders
in chief when it comes to at least one battlefield: the liberal agenda. [...] Perhaps not since Harry S. Truman's landmark
1948 order to racially integrate the military has a president unleashed his own collective social revolution on the Pentagon
with such success. In the process, the building also has become one of the administration's loudest voices on battling
climate change, even as its ability to fight one major war on schedule is in doubt due to budget cuts. The White House
also has given the Defense Department a gun control mission. And the "white privilege" movement, in which speakers tell
a negative history of the white race, sporadically has invaded some military units.
Barbarians
Inside the Gate. Overlooked by most in Obama's relentless efforts to "remake" America has been his ongoing and
dangerous transformation of our military. Here I am not going address the dozens of weapon systems cut, or the tens of
thousands of troops given their "pink slips." What I want to speak to is his administration's systematic destruction of the
200+ year-old culture of the U.S. military. This "multicultural makeover," happening right before our eyes, threatens to
undermine the very fabric of our armed forces. The forced acceptance of open homosexuality and the burgeoning hostility
toward Christianity; the gratuitous degradation of our troops (e.g., forcing ROTC cadets to march in red high heels to
experience what it's like to be a woman; making male soldiers wear simulated lactation devices, or lecturing them on "white
privilege," dare I go on?); the "full-court press" to make our forces more diverse, most alarmingly by opening up combat
positions (even special forces) to female soldiers; and the relentless purging from the ranks of dozens of fine general
officers whose only "offense" was their failure to "get with the program" — all of this, like some nightmarish "progressive"
Blitzkrieg, is now wreaking havoc with our reluctant service members, the objective being that of a complete and irreversible
cultural transformation.
Political
Correctness and the Wussification of the Military. A military parade may soon look less like a VE-Day parade
down Times Square and more like a Mardi Gras parade in New Orlean sunless liberals in leadership stop using the U.S. military
as a social engineering experiment. Let us not forget the same president who confused "corps" with "corpses" and
exchanged a traitor for terrorists, also promised to fundamentally transform America. What we didn't know is that
transformation would begin with the U.S. military,the protector of our nation and our values.
The
Air Force is getting rid of an iconic helicopter. And there's a big fight over how to replace it. The
UH-1 Huey has been a mainstay of U.S. wars since its debut in the jungles of Vietnam. Now, the Air Force is looking to
retire the venerable aircraft, and lawmakers are fighting over how it will be replaced. The Air Force fields roughly 60
UH-1N Hueys that are split between a number of missions. One contingent of the helicopters provides security to
intercontinental ballistic missile sites, while another is meant to evacuate members of the government during a time of
national emergency. The Air Force also uses a small number of Hueys for search-and-rescue missions.
Manpower-challenged
U.S. Army sets new priority: 'Mitigate climate change'. The U.S. Army on Thursday [4/21/2016] pledged to honor "Earth Day"
by "reasserting its pledge to address the implications of climate change and assess associated risks to national security." In a
special message to soldiers, the Army, which faces deep cuts in the ranks of active duty soldiers, said it is focused on "the role the
land plays in ensuring the Army remains ready and resilient." It urges soldiers to celebrate Earth Day on Friday [4/22/2016].
About Obama's Receding
Tide of War.... [Scroll down] In [Obama's] view, as he told NBC's Matt Lauer this past January, "there
are no existential threats" confronting the U.S. today. Thus, as Fox News reported earlier this month in a superb
documentary on "Rising Threats, Shrinking Military," Obama is both gutting the U.S. military and reshaping it, the priorities
here being not to win wars, but to be, above all, eco-aware and gender malleable. [...] America's greatness is the incredible
legacy of many generations of work and sacrifice under a system of capitalism and freedom, and of leaders willing at crucial
moments to stand up for this country. It takes a lot of effort to run that down, but this is what Obama has been doing,
with the apology tours, the terrible deals, the fading red lines, the hollow speeches, the inert declarations about standing
"shoulder-to-shoulder" with the "international community," the insults to America's allies and the come-hither courting of
America's enemies.
The
Perilous Politicization of the Military. [Scroll down] Beyond the already divisive, controversial and
standard-destroying policy of allowing women in all combat billets is the military's intensive drive to fill the ranks with
as many women and other categories of "diverse" recruits as possible, at almost any cost. Diversity is now effectively
the primary goal of military recruiters, even beyond meeting basic quotas. Recruiters that enlist too many qualified
and ready applicants (read Caucasian males) that don't meet the description of "diverse" can be sanctioned for going after
easy pickings. Recruiting goals are first defined by diversity rather than by quality, availability or cost. In a
situation in which the Marines say over 70% of young American adults are unqualified for service, and in an era in which
officer quality is a serious concern, this program verges on folly.
U.S.
Marines are at the Breaking Point. Fox News ran an exclusive report on Special Report tonight on how the US
Marines are at their breaking point. Their planes are breaking down and in the air training has been cut by 50% due to
budget cuts in the last few years. They are literally cannibalizing parts from planes that are supposed to be in the
air to keep the other planes in the air. And the Marines themselves are being asked to do more and more, even working
21 hours a day just to keep their aircraft operational. It's gotten so bad that some are leaving for jobs in the
private sector.
Lt.
Gen. Boykin: Part of Military's Problem Is Training in Tolerance, White Privilege, 'Nonsense Like
That'. Commenting on the weakened state of the U.S. military under President Barack Obama, Lt. Gen.
(ret.) William "Jerry" Boykin said he could not answer "for what this administration is thinking," but he knows that part of
the problem is that little time is spent on traditional training of soldiers, such as in the military code of conduct, and
much time is wasted training soldiers "in tolerance and inclusion," and on "white privilege and nonsense like that." "I
can't answer for what this administration is thinking," said Boykin in an April 7 interview on Secure Freedom Radio hosted
by Frank Gaffney. "I can't answer for why they're doing what they're doing."
Budget
cuts leaving Marine Corps aircraft grounded. [W]hile the Corps takes pride in doing more with less, senior
Marine officers are warning that the Corps' aviation service is being stretched to the breaking point. Today, the vast
majority of Marine Corps aircraft can't fly. The reasons behind the grounding of these aircraft include the toll of
long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the fight against ISIS and budget cuts precluding the purchase of the parts needed to fix
an aging fleet, according to dozens of Marines interviewed by Fox News at two air stations in the Carolinas this week.
Out of 276 F/A-18 Hornet strike fighters in the Marine Corps inventory, only about 30% are ready to fly, according to statistics
provided by the Corps. Similarly, only 42 of 147 heavy-lift CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters are airworthy.
The
US is dropping bombs quicker than it can make them. Ongoing air wars in Middle East have caused an unexpected
dip in the Pentagon's stockpile of air-to-ground munitions — and Washington has been slow to address the supply problem.
Barack
Obama, National Security Risk. Barack Obama has made some of the stranger foreign policy decisions in American
history such as going into Libya even after the Iraq debacle and making the nuclear deal with (aka billion-dollar
hand-out to) Iran. Now we know why. He simply doesn't care about our national security. He practically said
as much on Fox News Sunday this weekend [4/10/2016]. As Obama explained to Chris Wallace regarding the contents of
Hillary Clinton's email currently under FBI investigation, "there's classified and then there's classified." He further
opined that all Hillary was guilty of was "carelessness." What a bizarre and lawless thing for a president to say while a
federal investigation is being undertaken by over a hundred FBI agents. Put simply, the president of the United States
is a security risk.
Border
Patrol ordered to release illegals 'still soaking wet' from Rio Grande, union says. Border Patrol agents have been ordered to
release dripping-wet illegal immigrants at the Rio Grande unless they actually see them climbing out of the river, creating what amounts to
"an open border with Mexico," the chief of the agents' labor union told Congress in new testimony last week. Brandon Judd, president
of the National Border Patrol Council, told the House Judiciary Committee that agents were given the orders verbally soon after President
Obama laid out plans for limiting immigration enforcement in 2014.
Former
Defense Secretaries Openly Slam 'Inexperienced' Obama White House War Micromanagement. For years the Obama
administration has been accused of micromanaging the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from inside the White House. Now in
an astonishing report from Fox News anchor Bret Baier, three former Obama Defense Secretaries are openly slamming him for his
distrust of the military, his failure to lead and they're exposing his inexperienced and closest advisors for second guessing
senior field commanders with phone calls to the battlefield.
Army Chief
of Staff Says Concealed Carry Wouldn't Have Stopped Fort Hood Shooting. Gen. Mark Milley, the Army chief
of staff, came out strongly against the carrying of private guns on military bases as a security measure in the wake of
shootings at Fort Hood, the Washington Navy Yard, and a recruiting station in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Milley, who
assumed his current post in August 2015, was testifying alongside acting Secretary of the Army and former democratic
congressman, Patrick Murphy before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Army
Chief of Staff Opposes Private Weapons for Protection on U.S. Military Installations. "I've been around guns
all my life. I know how to use them, and arming our people on our military bases and allowing them to carry concealed,
privately owned weapons — I do not recommend that as a force protection," Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley
told Congress on Thursday [4/7/2016]. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) asked Milley what the Army is doing to provide force
protection at military bases and facilities in the United States, following last summer's attack on a Marine recruiting center
and a Navy Reserve facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that killed four Marines and one sailor.
Rainbow
Ray and the Navy's highest priority. The problem according to [Navy Secretary Ray] Mabus and his chief enlisted
naval adviser is that, try as they might, their naval social justice retitling team can't seem to come up with a satisfactory
gender-neutral replacement for the Navy's traditional title for a clerk, which, as it has been since the birth of the United
States Navy, is yeoman. I kid you not, folks: with all the problems our military faces in this very dangerous world,
our secretary of the Navy has his top chief petty officer, Master Chief of the Navy Michael D. Stevens, busy changing the
titles of the countless combat specialty ratings in that force, which includes the United States Marine Corps. This quixotic
quest is necessitated by the relentless insistence of the Obama administration that women be allowed to serve in all combat units
and positions regardless of continuing demonstrations that this is a clearly foolish program with coming deadly consequences.
Ash
Carter says U.S. military too 'top heavy,' aims to cut ranks of generals and admirals. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter
said on Tuesday [4/5/2016] he plans to reduced the number of generals and admirals to counter a "top heavy" command structure. Shrinking
the top brass is one of a number of ideas for updating the sprawling Defense Department command structure as contained in the 30-year-old
Goldwater-Nichols Act.
Obama's Destruction
of Our Military Ethos. Before Obama and our military leadership introduced sodomy into our barracks and
military neighborhoods, I predicted his goal was to quad-sexualize the military. It is here. [...] Today's military is
moving beyond hollow to a point where the foundation and ethos themselves are being destroyed. And I believe it is all
premeditated, a part of the Obama's promise to transform us, a Pontus Pilate kind of doctrine. He washed his hand in
the Iranian riots, in Syria where he became Putin's pretzel, in Iraq, in Benghazi and on every battlefield where he put
victory in the hands of the enemy by announcing a date of withdrawal.
Intel
Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama's ISIS War. Two senior intelligence analysts at
U.S. Central Command say the military has forced them out of their jobs because of their skeptical reporting on
U.S.-backed rebel groups in Syria, three sources with knowledge of their claim told The Daily Beast. It's the first
known instance of possible reprisals against CENTCOM personnel after analysts accused their bosses of manipulating
intelligence reports about the U.S.-led campaign against ISIS in order to paint a rosier picture of progress in the
war. One of the analysts alleging reprisals is the top analyst in charge of Syria issues at CENTCOM.
Russia
Increases Nuclear Warheads While U.S. Decreases Its Arsenal. The United States has reduced its stockpile
to 1,481 strategic warheads, according to the latest data released Friday [4/1/2016] by the U.S. State Department on
Friday. This compares to 1,790 warheads deployed by the United States when New START was introduced in 2011.
Meanwhile, Russia has increased the number of strategic warheads it deploys on its ballistic missiles to 1,735 under the
latest count — up from 1,566 in 2011. Most warheads were added over the last year: According to a
count on March 1, 2015, Russia was in possession of 1,582 strategic warheads.
Seven years -- specifically, the seven years since Obama became president. U.S.
military suicides remain high for 7th year. The Pentagon reported Friday [4/1/2016] that 265 active-duty service members
killed themselves last year, continuing a trend of unusually high suicide rates that have plagued the U.S. military for
at least seven years. The numbers of suicides among troops was 145 in 2001 and began a steady increase until more than
doubling to 321 in 2012, the worst year in recent history for service members killing themselves. The suicide rate for
the Army that year was nearly 30 suicides per 100,000 soldiers, well above the national rate of 12.5 per 100,000 for 2012.
DHS whistleblower:
U.S. handcuffed in terror war. The terms of the settlement of a recent discrimination lawsuit brought by Muslim
activists against the New York Police Department has set a dangerous precedent that makes it even harder for law enforcement
in the United States to prevent attacks like the coordinated bombings Tuesday in Brussels that killed at least 31 people and
injured more than 180, contends a newly retired Department of Homeland Security officer. Philip Haney, a former Customs
and Border Protection officer who previously worked in the Middle East, explained to WND that as part of the settlement reached
in U.S. District Court in January, the NYPD was forced to purge a study of terror attacks that helped law enforcement detect
potential threats.
The
Feckless Mismanagement Of John Brennan, CIA's Captain Unreality. [Scroll down] That this CIA director would say
something so preposterous is symptomatic of the damage the Obama administration has done to our national security with his
assistance. It also is not the only example of Mr. Brennan's denying the obvious. He has repeatedly echoed President
Obama's refusal to use the terms "jihadist" or "Islamist" to describe members of Islamic terrorist groups like al-Qaida and ISIS.
He explained this in a 2010 CSIS speech by disputing ties between these groups and Islam. Brennan also said in this speech that
we should not label "our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify
oneself of one's community." Brennan had a controversial tenure as President Obama's assistant for homeland security and
counterterrorism in the National Security Council. He played a role in the administration's decision to read Miranda rights
to Umar Abdulmutallab, the so-called "underwear bomber" who tried to destroy a civilian airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.
Official
behind DOD's transgender push to resign. The Pentagon official who proposed including transgender individuals
and women in the military announced Monday [3/14/2016] he will resign from his post next month. Brad Carson, the Defense
Department's top civilian over personnel policies, will leave the Pentagon in April. Carson had served in that role since
2015 and had been charged with making controversial changes to military policies. He ran into other problems last month when
the Senate Armed Services Committee ruled Carson had violated the federal Vacancies Act by taking on responsibilities of the job
prior to his confirmation.
Hellfire
Missiles Bound For Portland Oregon Intercepted in Europe. This is the same type of missile recently admitted as being "accidentally" shipped to
Cuba. In a little discussed 2014 article, the Obama administration announced they were sending 5,000 of these missiles to Iraq. Is it possible
these sketchy transfers are lining up to be a similar problem evidenced in Operation Zero Footprint?
Obama
Uses Army to Attack "White Privilege". "Outrageous — that is the only word to describe this type of raw racist
indoctrination," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch. "The Obama administration undermines the morale of our military with
morally repugnant 'equal opportunity training' that makes many soldiers feel unwelcome because they are the wrong sex, race, religion or
aren't part of a politically correct group." Of course political correctness has always been more important to President Obama than
military effectiveness. Our Marxist president despises the U.S. military and everything it represents. Like any good radical
leftist, Obama believes the only good American soldier is one who plays the role of social worker, not war-fighter. He has been
gutting and gelding the military since taking office, allowing fleets, warplanes, and weapons to rust their way into irrelevance.
He has been purging the military of ideologically hostile officers, and fundamentally transforming it into something other than a
war-fighting force.
Obama's
CIA Director Is Opposed to Spying . Unbelievable, but true: President Obama's CIA Director, John Brennan, doesn't
think the agency should engage in spying. He finds espionage unsavory, apparently. [...] Barack Obama has undermined our national security
on so many fronts that it is hard to keep track of them all. But appointing the rank incompetent John Brennan as an anti-spying
CIA Director must rank high on the list.
Documents
Reveal US Army Indoctrinated Soldiers on Dangers of 'White Privilege'. Judicial Watch announced today [3/9/2016] that it
obtained documents from the United States Department of the Army revealing that in April 2015, 400 soldiers in the 67th Signal
Battalion at Fort Gordon, Georgia, were subjected to a "white privilege" briefing, including a PowerPoint presentation instructing
the attendees: "Our society attaches privilege to being white and male and heterosexual..." The slideshow also informed
the soldiers: "Race privilege gives whites little reason to pay a lot of attention to African Americans."
Lawmaker
asking why Navy SEALs don't have enough rifles. Navy SEAL teams don't have enough combat rifles to go around,
even as these highly trained forces are relied on more than ever to carry out counterterrorism operations and other secretive
missions, according to SEALs who have confided in Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.
Congressmen Have No Idea Why Special Operators Have To
Pay Out Of Pocket For Basic Gear. For reasons still unclear, elite special operators are often let down by their respective services and
have to pay out of pocket for the most basic gear. Private military suppliers have started to notice this phenomenon. During a panel
discussion on Capitol Hill Thursday [2/25/2016], heads of supply companies met with Congress to discuss the shortages and raise the issue with Secretary
of Defense Ash Carter, Stars and Stripes reports. In one case, former Navy SEAL Sean Matson had to pay $900 for an advanced ballistic helmet after
the military measured his head four times but subsequently failed to provide him with the necessary equipment. This same scenario has repeated
itself with GPS devices and medical gear.
Before
political correctness, our soldiers were free to fight back. A century before American soldiers fought Muslim terrorism
in the Middle East, they fought it in the Philippines. Their attackers were Moro Muslims whose savage fanaticism appeared
inexplicable. A formerly friendly Muslim might suddenly attack American soldiers, local Muslim rulers promised friendship
while secretly aiding the terrorists and the yellow left-wing press at home seized on every report of an atrocity to denounce
American soldiers as murderers whose honor was forever soiled. Much of what went on in that conflict, including the sacrifices
of our soldiers, has been forgotten. The erasure has been so thorough that the media casually claims that the American forces
did not use pig corpses and pig's blood to deter Muslim terrorists. Media fact checks have deemed it a "legend". It's not
a legend. It's history.
Obama caught in massive terror lie. For years,
Democrats and the mainstream media called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush over accusations that his administration used faulty intelligence
to justify the war in Iraq. But it now appears that President Barack Obama's administration is being swept up in an intelligence scandal of a much
larger scale. An investigation has revealed that the Obama administration may have repeatedly used faulty intelligence in an effort to mislead the American
public about our armed forces' progress against the Islamic State and in winning the War on Terror. The revelation came Thursday [2/25/2016], when it was
reported that personnel at U.S. Central Command have deleted countless files and emails amid continuing allegations that intelligence assessments were altered to
exaggerate progress against ISIS militants, according to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
No
money for defense? Obama admin. has 680 green military projects underway. The Democrats are hammering to return to
pre-sequester level spending. While money at the Department of Defense has been slashed since the across the board budget cuts
took hold, there still seems to be enough resources for environmentally friendly military projects.
40% of CENTCOM Intel
Pros Warn: ISIS Info Flawed. Forty percent of analysts working at the U.S. military's Central Command, which is running the war against
ISIS, think there are problems with "analytic integrity" in their work, a top congressman said on Thursday [2/25/2016]. Rep. Devin Nunes,
chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, asked senior intelligence officials about the figure, which was discovered in a recent survey of
analysts by the country's top intelligence office. The survey was first reported by The Daily Beast this month. "To me, it seems
like if 40 percent of analysts are concerned at CENTCOM, that's just something that can't be ignored," Nunes (R-CA) told top intelligence
officials testifying before the committee, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan.
White
House slashed NYC terror funding to punish Schumer, former top cop says. New York City's former top cop said Sunday [2/21/2016]
that the Obama administration cut funding to fight terrorism in the city to retaliate against Sen. Chuck Schumer for opposing a nuclear deal
with Iran. "There's a certain amount vindictiveness on the part of Washington aimed at Sen. Chuck Schumer," Ray Kelly, New York City's
police commissioner under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said in an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.
Reports
Showing War Against ISIS Wasn't Working. This is dipping well into cover-up mode. This is beyond simple
tampering with intelligence. Once records are being deleted, that's a coverup.
U.S.
Removed Cuba from Terrorist List After Hezbollah Opened Base on Island. A few years before the Obama
administration removed Cuba from the U.S. list of nations that sponsor terrorism Hezbollah established an operational base on
the communist island, according to intelligence received by Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State. The
information comes straight from electronic mail released by the State Department over the weekend as part of ongoing
litigation from several groups, including Judicial Watch, and media outlets surrounding Clinton's use of a private server to
send and receive classified information as Secretary of State. This alarming information has been ignored by the mainstream
media, which served as the president's most vocal cheerleader when he established diplomatic ties with Cuba last summer.
After appearing for decades on the U.S. government's list of nations that sponsor terrorism, the Obama administration
officially removed it to lay the groundwork for a full renewal of diplomatic ties.
Exclusive:
Whistleblowers Warned Top Spy About Skewed ISIS Intel. U.S. military analysts told the nation's top intelligence official that their
reports on ISIS were skewed and manipulated by their bosses, The Daily Beast has learned. The result: an overly optimistic account of
the campaign against the terror group. The complaints, lodged by analysts at U.S. Central Command in 2015, are separate from allegations that
analysts made to the Defense Department inspector general, who is now investigating "whether there was any falsification, distortion, delay,
suppression, or improper modification of intelligence information" by the senior officials that run CENTCOM's intelligence group.
Obama
Invites Enemy Spies to U.S. Military Brainstorming Sessions. This very week General James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence,
testified that Castro's spies remain a serious security threat to the U.S.: "The threat from foreign intelligence entities... is
persistent, complex, and evolving. Targeting and collection of US political, military, economic, and technical information by foreign intelligence
services continues unabated. Russia and China pose the greatest threat, followed by Iran and Cuba..." (General James Clapper,
Washington D.C. Feb 9, 2016.) But two weeks ago (Jan. 26-29th) when the U.S. military's Southern Command held its annual "Caribbean
regional security conference" senior members of Castro's KGB-trained spy agency were kindly invited to participate.
Muslim Migrant Surge: GOP Worried about Thousands Obama is "Interviewing" in
Jordan to Bring Here. The Obama administration is sending officials to Jordan to interview thousands of Muslim refugees for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.
Does the Obama administration believe that jihadists hellbent on attacking America will be forthright and truthful during these interviews? The Lebanese education minister
said there are 20,000 active jihadists among the refugees in his country. The Islamic state said in February 2015 that they would be sending half a million refugees to the
West. And the Islamic state has vowed to attack the US and Europe. Why is Obama bringing a jihad army to America?
Top
Senate Democrat slams proposed Obama cuts to counterterror programs. Sen. Charles Schumer is slamming a White House proposal that would reduce
funding for counterterrorism programs across the country by nearly $300 million.Feds
Hold Meeting on Border 'Concerns' About the Environment. The federal government is holding a meeting to discuss
concerns it has over the U.S.-Mexico border, focusing solely on climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency
announced the two-day meeting with the "Good Neighbor Environmental Board," an independent federal advisory committee, to
talk about "climate change resilience" along the southwestern border.
The Editor says...
Is Barack H. Obama worried about anchor babies arriving by the thousands? Is he concerned about the tens of thousands of freeloaders looking for
food stamps and AFDC? Does he care about violent criminals entering the country? Does he see illegal immigration as a threat to national security?
Might he be worried about an influx of lice, scabies, tuberculosis and chicken pox? No -- Mr. Obama's primary concern is global warming, or
whatever they call it these days.
Pentagon orders commanders to prioritize climate change in
all military actions. The Pentagon is ordering the top brass to incorporate climate change into virtually everything they do, from testing weapons to training troops to war
planning to joint exercises with allies. A new directive's theme: The U.S. Armed Forces must show "resilience" and beat back the threat based on "actionable science." It says
the military will not be able to maintain effectiveness unless the directive is followed. It orders the establishment of a new layer of bureaucracy — a wide array of "climate
change boards, councils and working groups" to infuse climate change into "programs, plans and policies."
DHS
ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties. Amid the chaos of the 2009 holiday travel season, jihadists planned to slaughter
290 innocent travelers on a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan. [...] Following the attempted attack, President Obama threw
the intelligence community under the bus for its failure to "connect the dots." He said, "this was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a
failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had." Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the
Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused. His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been
engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots.
Obama weakens visa safeguards
against terrorists. The [visa waiver] program allows people from certain countries to come here for up to 90 days without a visa.
This is to make it easier for tourists and business people from friendly countries like Canada and Britain to come here. And on the whole, the program
works very well. But ISIS has been recruiting people from these very same countries. So as a precaution, we added a new rule: If you have
traveled to a country with significant terrorist activity — like Iraq, Iran, or Sudan — any time after 2011, you are not eligible for
the program and must apply for a visa. We negotiated this requirement with the administration, and the president signed it into law. Unfortunately,
the administration is now carving loopholes into the law.
Obama
reinstates 'catch-and-release' policy for illegal immigrants. The Obama administration has revived the maligned illegal
immigrant "catch-and-release" policy of the Bush years, ordering Border Patrol agents not to bother arresting and deporting many new illegal
immigrants, the head of the agents' labor union revealed Thursday [2/4/2016]. Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol
Council, told Congress that Homeland Security was embarrassed by the number of illegal immigrants not showing up for their deportation
hearings, but instead of cracking down on the immigrants, the department ordered agents not to arrest them in the first place —
meaning they no longer need to show up for court. Mr. Judd said the releases are part of President Obama's "priorities" program,
which orders agents to worry chiefly about criminals, national security risks and illegal immigrants who came into the U.S. after Jan. 1,
2014. Mr. Judd said illegal immigrants without serious criminal convictions have learned that by claiming they came before 2014 —
without even needing to show proof — they can be released immediately rather than being arrested.
Obama Plays Catch-Up On
Military Readiness. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has ramped up defense spending to counter what he now admits is a Russian menace to
Europe. Better late than never, but the question remains how it came to this. Carter said that the Pentagon would quadruple 2017 military
spending in defense of Europe — to $3.4 billion from the current $789 million — to reassure our allies that the U.S.
remains committed to the region, in what's called the European Reassurance Initiative.
The Editor says...
After weakening America's defenses for seven years, now Obama wants the next president to spend billions on defense projects.
Border
Patrol Agent: We Will Be Terminated If We Try To Enforce The Law. A top Border Patrol agent revealed Thursday [2/4/2016] that if border
agents follow the law and ask illegal aliens why they are coming to the U.S. they will be terminated. The Border Patrol previously had a policy
of "catch and release" that drew the ire of Border Patrol agents: "These orders are called Notices to Appear (NTA). The only problem,
however, is that these official orders are usually ignored; so much so that Border Patrol Agents have dubbed them Notices to Disappear," Brandon
Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council testified.
Border
agent: 'We might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether'. In a shocking reversal of policy, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection agents are being told to release illegal immigrants and no longer order them to appear at
deportation hearings, essentially a license to stay in the United States, a key agent testified Thursday [2/4/2016]. What's
more, the stand down order includes a requirement that the whereabouts of illegals released are not to be tracked. "We might
as well abolish our immigration laws altogether," suggested agent Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council.
Top
U.S. General: 'I Do Not Have Authority' to Offensively Attack Taliban. The U.S. military, since President Obama
declared that American troops had ceased their combat mission at the end of 2014, has only been able to attack the Taliban
from a defensive position, the top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan told lawmakers.
Feds
to cut aerial surveillance on the border by 50 percent. Texas Republican Gov. Gregg Abbot and Democratic Rep. Henry
Cuellar on Monday [2/1/2016] sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson demanding to know why the agency
is planning to cut back aerial monitoring along the southern border by 50 percent. "Given the recent surge of migrants
from Central America and Cuba along the southern border, we believe DHS should request more surveillance and security resources,
not fewer," the lawmakers wrote in the letter, first reported by the Texas Tribune.
Feds
to cut aerial surveillance on the border by 50%. Texas governor Greg Abbott and Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar have
sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding an explanation why the agency is planning to cut back aerial monitoring
of the southern border by 50%.
Special
Ops cmdr. demands White House stop disclosing mission details. Gen. Joseph Votel, the chief of U.S. Special Operations Command
(SOCOM) and future commander of U.S. Central Command, sent a letter in early December to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter requesting that the
executive branch stop disclosing details of special operator missions for political gain.
Obama
bucks history, directs Pentagon to make guns safer, not more lethal. Wartime U.S. presidents have taken keen personal interest
in picking the most lethal gun for the military. But in President Obama's first foray into small-arms procurement for the armed forces,
his Jan. 4 executive order on gun control directs the Pentagon to find ways to make not so much more lethal firearms, but safer ones.
The Editor says...
Safer for whom? When has America ever had a Commander-in-Chief who did not want the deadliest weapons to be in American hands?
What Obama Doesn't Know about
Firearms in the U.S. Military. What Obama doesn't seem to understand is that the U.S. military has been trying to make firearms
less lethal for some time now. The idea is that enemy troops who are merely wounded, not killed, slow down their comrades and greatly
limit their maneuverability. [...] The bottom line is that the military has already taken a wide range of factors into account in deciding what
firearms work best for them. Obama's orders, in an area that he doesn't understand, represents the worst type of political judgment
substituting for the judgment of military experts.
Special
Ops Commander Demands Pentagon Stop Exposing Operations. President Obama's nominee to head U.S. Central Command recently penned a memo
to Defense Secretary Ash Carter demanding that the Pentagon stop discussing the operations of elite American troops. Foreign Policy,
which obtained an excerpt of the memo, reported that Gen. Joseph Votel, currently the chief of U.S. Special Operations Command, wrote the December 8
memo to express concern about the Obama administration's exposure of special operations forces' activities. "I am concerned with increased
public exposure of SOF activities and operations, and I assess that it is time to get our forces back into the shadows," Votel wrote to Carter.
Army
Command Recommends Green Beret Be Kicked Out for Confronting Afghan Child Rapist. Army Human Resources Command
has recommended that the Green Beret who confronted an Afghan police commander for raping a young boy be kicked out of the
service. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R., Calif.), who has pushed back against the Army's decision to punish Sgt. 1st Class
Charles Martland, revealed the development in a letter to Sen. Pat Roberts (R., Kansas) Wednesday [1/27/2016]. "Recently,
a decision within Army Human Resources Command recommended that the Army uphold the judgment that Martland be removed from service,
although a final decision has yet to be made about his future," Hunter wrote.
Pentagon defends
use of Russian engines to launch satellites. Senior Pentagon officials on Wednesday [1/27/2016] sought to defend
the use of Russian-made rocket engines to send U.S. military satellites into space, telling exasperated lawmakers they are moving
quickly to end the practice and rely on American-made rockets for the launches.
Former
Defense Secretary Blasts 'Micromanager' Obama. [Scroll down] The former Defense Secretary [Robert Gates]
said that he had two concerns about President Obama's style of leadership. His first concern was the president's
"micromanagement". "[President Obama] seems to be unwilling to trust subordinates to execute his policies and so he
centralized operational activities in the White House," Gates explained. "So, under previous administrations that I
worked for, there might be 40 or 50 professionals on the national security council staff. There are now hundreds."
'Person
overboard': US Navy plan to sink sexist terms at sea spells the end for traditional terms like 'midshipman'.
The US Navy is planning to make job titles gender-neutral — putting the future of long-established names like 'midshipman' in
doubt. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus ordered a review of all job titles to determine whether references to 'man' can be
removed from positions such as seaman and yeoman. The review was set up 'to ensure (titles) were representative of all
sailors and did not discriminate based on gender', the Navy announced.
US
navy launches first biofuel-powered aircraft carriers. The US navy on Wednesday launched its first carrier
strike group powered partly by biofuel a mix made from beef fat, calling it a milestone toward easing the military's reliance
on foreign oil.
The Editor says...
The Navy wouldn't have to rely on foreign oil if the government would step out of the way and remove the restrictions
on fracking
and ANWR.
Obama Dealing Terror. Obsessed with
closing Guantanamo Bay, Obama began releasing dangerous detainees almost immediately upon entering office. Ignoring the threat that these terrorists pose,
Obama jumped at the opportunity to trade the Taliban Five for traitor Beau Bergdahl. Deceiving the American people, Obama used Bergdahl's parents as props
in his Rose Garden victory speech ignoring the minor detail that Bergdahl was a deserter who placed his entire platoon in jeopardy. Just like his
announcements that Benghazi was caused by a video and the Iran nuclear deal will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, Obama lied to Americans
understanding the complicit media would fail to vet his actions. He shipped the Taliban Five to Qatar for one year of "supervision" before allowing
them to reunite with their murdering colleagues and resume their terrorist activities — as they are now doing.
Gates:
Obama Doesn't Have Strategy To Deal With Iran In ME, WH Micromanages Military. Former Defense Secretary Robert
Gates stated that the US lacks "a strategy of pushback from the administration" to deal with how Iran will use money it is
given under the nuclear deal "To interfere" in the Middle East" and that "micromanagement out of the White House" was a
concern he had due to the fact President Obama "centralized operational activities in the White House" in addition to
problems with "execution" on Monday's [1/18/2016] "Hannity" on the Fox News Channel.
The Editor says...
I suspect that Mr. Obama "centralized operational activities in the White House" by turning over the decision-making to President Valerie Jarrett, which would
explain why Iran is treated like our strongest ally.
What Happened Off Farsi Island? On
the day of Obama's last State of the Union speech, two U.S. Navy boats carrying ten sailors were captured by Iranian Forces near Farsi Island in
the Persian Gulf. The next day they were released. But there are a lot of important questions left unanswered about their capture and
the sailors' behavior while in captivity. These questions are important to the future of our navy because the answers to them may point to
damage done by Obama and his team that urgently needs to be repaired.
The
befuddled president without a clue. He seems to understand now, after it was explained to him at some length, that
America is indeed the exceptional nation that Abraham Lincoln said it is, but not for the reasons Mr. Obama thinks. "The
United States of America is the most powerful nation on Earth, period," Mr. Obama told the nation in his State of the Union address
earlier this week. "It's not even close. We spend more on our military than the next eight nations combined." That's
rich, from the man who has starved the military for resources and has set out to inflict mortal damage on the great fighting
machine by remaking it to answer the sighs and whispers of feminist wishes and dreams.
With
10 more detainee releases from Guatanamo, Obama's goal draws near. The last time there were fewer than 100 detainees at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, was Jan. 16, 2002. That month, shortly after the military prison opened, detainees in orange jumpsuits arriving from overseas
locations were forced onto their knees in outdoor pens. Their wrists were bound, their hands covered with mittens. To isolate the
men from their surroundings, their eyes were covered and they wore industrial earmuffs. It became an enduring image of the excesses of America's
response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. This week, with the expected resettlement of 10 Yemeni detainees, the prison population will
once again dip below 100, this time symbolizing President Obama's sprint to close Guantanamo before he leaves office.
How
the Obama Administration Changed Our Missile Defense Strategy. Recently the Russian strategic missile forces' commander Col. Gen. Sergei
Karakayev said Russia's new missiles will have the capability to neutralize any future U.S. missile defense system. For now, Karakayev is
right — not because the missiles are invincible, but because the Obama administration is deliberately limiting the United States'
ballistic missile defense program. This must change.
Mark Penn: Obama Said The 'Stupidest
Thing Ever Said By A President'. Mark Penn, who owns a public relations firm handling communications for the Barack Obama Foundation,
credited Obama with uttering the "stupidest thing ever said by a president in foreign policy." In a March 2012 email sent to Hillary Clinton's
private email address, Penn lambasted Obama for his statement to then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would "have more flexibility" on
missile defense issues after the 2012 election. "This could be about the stupidest thing ever said by a president in foreign policy," wrote
Penn. "To explicitly say that he is laying low on nuclear defense policies because of his election right now and tell your opponent that is
to politicize all foreign policy, evidence weakness that can be exploited by others, and undermine the administration's credibility."
Obama
and the Insanity of the Liberal Mind. History will look back at an America that won the Cold War under Reagan only to
reignite it under Obama. Our descendants will ponder how their ancestors abandoned American supremacy, ingenuity, and civility due
to ignorance, idealism, and an irrational obsession with politically correct progressivism that led to the transformation —
and decline — of this once great nation.
Rubio:
Obama has 'deliberately weakened America'. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is accusing President Obama of intentionally weakening America
at home and abroad. "It's now abundantly clear: Barack Obama has deliberately weakened America," Rubio said early Monday [1/4/2015] during
a speech on national security at the American Legion in Hooksett, N.H.
[Hillary]
Clinton [was] advised to consider resigning as secretary of state after Obama's Russia comments. A key Hillary
Clinton adviser told her that she may have to consider resigning as secretary of state after President Obama was caught
telling Russia's president off-mic early in 2012 that he could make more concessions on missile defense after November's U.S.
elections. In addition, Mark Penn told Mrs. Clinton that Mr. Obama's not-so-secret words "may be about the stupidest
thing ever said by a president in foreign policy."
Obama
White House Turns To Islamists Who Demonize Terror Investigations. Jihadist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris
have Americans on edge. Yet part of the Obama White House's response to the attacks has been to invite Islamist groups that
routinely demonize the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies to the White House to discuss a religious discrimination. "If
we're to succeed in defeating terrorism we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them
away," President Obama said in his speech following the San Bernardino attack. But partnering with such organizations sends
the wrong message to the American people, said Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AFID).
"I think it says a lot when the president uses those organizations that have an ACLU-type mentality. They should have a seat
at the table. That's fine," Jasser said. "But not to include groups, which have completely different focuses about
counter-radicalization, counter-Islamism creates this monolithic megaphone for demonization of our government and demonization of
America that ends up radicalizing our community."
The Poisonous
Obama Years. On August 25, a bombshell report in the New York Times indicated that the Pentagon inspector
general's office was investigating credible claims that CENTCOM officials altered intelligence reports related to ISIS.
Those reports had been reviewed by ranking war planners, including the president, and were designed to paint a rosier picture
of the state of the campaign than was warranted. Over a month later, dozens of intelligence operatives have come forward
to confirm the IG's findings. Reports regarding terror activity in Iraq were "grossly thrown to the side," alleges former
U.S. Army official William Kotel. "They've spent more money and time trying to push down this intelligence ... than they
have actually spending time and effort on real security," he alleged of his bosses.
This
Is the ISIS Intel the U.S. Military Dumbed Down. Senior intelligence officials at the U.S. military's Central
Command demanded significant alterations to analysts' reports that questioned whether airstrikes against the so-called
Islamic State widely known as ISIS were damaging the group's finances and its ability to launch attacks. But reports that
showed the group being weakened by the U.S.-led air campaign received comparatively little scrutiny, The Daily Beast has learned.
Senior CENTCOM intelligence officials who reviewed the critical reports sent them back to the analysts and ordered them to write new
versions that included more footnotes and details to support their assessments, according to two officials familiar with a complaint
levied by more than 50 analysts about intelligence manipulation by CENTCOM higher-ups.
The
Pentagon's Groveling Apology to China for Flying Near a Contested Island. [Scroll down] First off, it's
telling that the White House hasn't commented on the B-52 report. This is the administration's go-to response for a story
they want to go away (if the administration likes the story, we get leaks and Hollywood movies). But the Pentagon's
response has been equally telling. Instead of broadcasting that America will reject China's claims in the East China and
South China Seas, and instead of asserting that American forces will of course operate in international territory, the Pentagon
groveled before China, offering apologies. The [Wall Street] Journal reports that the B-52 aircrew is being
investigated and that the Pentagon is hinting that "bad weather" led the crew to make a mistake. It's Scapegoating 101.
Obama —
Disengaged, Delusional, or Diabolical? The greatest American recruiting tool ISIS has is our feckless leader,
Obama — because weakness is the greatest recruiting tool an enemy can have, and no group of people is more aware
of this than the Arabs, who firmly believe in a "strong horse" approach to violent confrontation. Weakness emboldens one's
enemies, and draws possible recruits to their ranks, and it is hard to imagine a weaker leader than we now have, in the person of Obama.
Cruz:
Obama 'More Interested in Promoting Homosexuality in the Military Than He Is in Defeating Our Enemy'. Morale in
the U.S. military has "plummeted" in recent years because President Barack Obama "doesn't support our soldiers," won't even
name the enemy "radical Islamic terrorism," and is "more interested in promoting homosexuality in the military" than in
"defeating our enemy," said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). During a conference call with Bishop E.W. Jackson of the National
Emergency Coalition (NEC), Senator Cruz said, "You look at the military and one of the things we've seen is morale in the
military under the Obama administration has plummeted, and it has plummeted because you have a commander-in-chief that
doesn't support our soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines."
The U.S. is running out of
bombs to drop on ISIS. The U.S. Air Force has fired off more than 20,000 missiles and bombs since the U.S. bombing campaign
against ISIS began 15 months ago, according to the Air Force, leading to depleted munitions stockpiles and calls to ramp up
funding and weapons production. As the U.S. ramps up its campaign against the Islamist terror group in Iraq and Syria, the
Air Force is now "expending munitions faster than we can replenish them," Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh said in a
statement.
The Editor says...
If the Air Force runs out of bombs or the Army runs out of bullets, the Commander in Chief is ultimately responsible.
ISIS contained or covered up? Now
it is all starting to make sense. Of course the President believes ISIS is contained, he has been willingly and knowingly ignoring reports about
the serious threats that ISIS poses to America and to the world since it wouldn't help him get re-elected. The scary thing is that these aren't
the first reports we have heard from former Obama intelligence officials regarding the White House ignoring their reports on ISIS. This September
The Daily Beast published an exclusive story by Shane Harris and Nancy A. Youssef, claiming that over 50 spies say ISIS intelligence was
cooked. These 50 intelligence analysts formally filed a complaint that their reports on ISIS were being "inappropriately" altered by senior officials
Obama's Intel
Scandal. The [New York] Times story was an update of reporting from the Daily Beast earlier
this fall. "More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military's Central Command have formally complained
that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda's branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials," the Beast
reported in September. These analysts say their superiors regularly massaged pessimistic assessments to make them more upbeat
before sending them up the chain of command. The analysts registered their grievances with the inspector general at the
Pentagon, who is investigating their claims.
Obama
Threatens US Intelligence and Military If They Don't Tell Him What He Wants to Hear. Barack Obama is pretending
his ISIS "strategy" is working even though we can all clearly see that it isn't. The President said during his ISIS
presser that he vigorously rejected the idea that he should go further with his war against ISIS, dismissing critics who were
playing "political games" or offering "shallow solutions". He said he's getting advice from the greatest military minds. [...]
But in fact, advisors either tell him what he wants to hear or they could face losing their livelihoods. More than 50 intelligence
analysts have confirmed that their work has been altered to say the war against ISIS is more successful than it is.
Former
DIA Head: Investigation of Manipulated Intel Should Start at White House. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head
of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) during President Obama's tenure, went on the Kelly File last night [11/23/2015]
to talk about the possible manipulation of ISIS intelligence. He said the investigation should "start at the top.
Where intelligence starts and stops is at the White House."
Sharyl
Attkisson's Scathing Indictment of Obama for Ignoring Terrorism Intel. Independent investigative reporter and host of "Full Measure,"
Sharyl Attkisson is giving a blistering account of what one source called Barack Obama's potential "personality flaw," leading him to only see and
believe what he wants to see and believe when it comes to the global threat from terrorism — that, as opposed to what ground operators
are actually trying to report to him. This goes hand-in-hand with recent reports that up to 50 intelligence types claim the administration
has been systematically altering intelligence reports for political reasons.
A True Scandal. The [New York] Times
reported over the weekend that congressional investigators were informed by military officials that some of the documents related to the intentional
misleading of policy makers were destroyed before they could be turned over to the appropriate authorities. Last week, Foreign Policy
revealed that reports regarding the strength of opposition elements in Afghanistan had also been shaded to create the impression of success for the
White House. On Monday [11/23/2015], Fox News Pentagon correspondent Catherine Herridge revealed "a source close to the CENTCOM analysts [alleged]
that the pressure on them included at least two emails saying they needed to 'cut it out' and 'toe the line.'" Another source confirmed to
Herridge the revelation reported in the Times that incriminating communication about these warnings were destroyed before they could be
handed over to investigators.
Two bombs a day, doesn't keep ISIS away.
ISIS is on a roll, courtesy of Barack Obama and his entourage of fools and lackeys, what our French allies would call, Les Incompetents.
The ISIS thug state that President Obama referred to as "contained" last week is everything but that. In fact, ISIS is surging, not
sinking. The White House is unfazed by anything. They respond to questions and attacks with platitudes about comprehensive strategies,
multiple lines of effort, cutting off finances and an airtight coalition. One, there is no strategy; two, there is no effort; three, ISIS
has more money than ever and four, the so-called coalition is anything but that.
Emails
show DOD analysts told to 'cut it out' on ISIS warnings; IG probe expands. Analysts at U.S. Central Command were pressured to
ease off negative assessments about the Islamic State threat and were even told in an email to "cut it out," Fox News has learned —
as an investigation expands into whether intelligence reports were altered to present a more positive picture. Fox News is told by a source
close to the CENTCOM analysts that the pressure on them included at least two emails saying they needed to "cut it out" and "toe the line."
Separately, a former Pentagon official told Fox News there apparently was an attempt to destroy the communications. The Pentagon official
said the email warnings were "not well received" by the analysts.
U.S.
ran out of ammo in attack on ISIS trucks. American A-10 and C-130 warplanes targeted a group of about 300
trucks near Abu Kamal, in Syria. Given that the Islamic State is thought to have just over 1,000 trucks in its
entire fleet, the group of 300 represented a huge target for U.S. planes. At a Pentagon news conference last Wednesday [11/18/2015],
reporters wanted to know why American forces did not take out more than 116 trucks. Why not all 300, or something
close to that? A U.S. official said the American attackers simply ran out of ammunition.
Obama
blocks U.S. pilots from bombing ISIS. Obama has in fact restrained the use of U.S. force to an unnatural
degree. We've known for a while now that 75% of the strike sorties flown against ISIS by our aircraft return to base without
bombing anything. U.S. Central Command reported that in operational statistics months ago, and it was picked up by stateside
media as early as May 2015. But there was a focus in May on the lack of immediate tactical intelligence on potential targets:
without boots on the ground to direct airborne strikes, the implication was that we couldn't use air power effectively. The
disclosures discussed this week, from U.S. pilots as summarized by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
are of a different order. The issue is not so much the lack of tactical intelligence, as the paralyzing fear, in the White House,
of collateral damage from dropping bombs under any circumstances.
Obama
Didn't Bomb ISIS Oil Because of the Environmental Impact. Obama the Great is now concerned for ISIS and their precious oil
supplies and the 'environment'. [...] I wish he believed in America like he believes in global warming and whatever crazy ideas he is
coming up with on a daily basis. Or at least cared as much as he did about golf.
Former
CIA Director: We Didn't Hit ISIS Oil Wells to Avoid Environmental Damage. Former CIA Director Mike Morell
stated on Tuesday's Charlie Rose show that the Obama administration "seemed" to back off from bombing oil wells controlled by
ISIS, at least in part because such strikes would cause "environmental damage." [Video clip] [...] We
get it. Obama cares more about the environment than crushing ISIS.
U.S. Defense probed for cooking ISIS
intel. Some of President Obama's top military officials are the subject of an expanded investigation into intelligence
reports that were possibly doctored to paint a rosy picture of progress made in rooting out ISIS positions in Syria and Iraq.
At issue is whether analysts at Central Command, which oversees U.S. Department of Defense operations in the Middle East, altered
assessments of the campaign against ISIS to make it appear as though the United States and Western partners were making more progress
than they really were, at least according to claims from a whistleblower assigned to Centcom, ABC News reported.
Obama
to Pentagon: 'Get to the bottom' of altered Islamic State intelligence. [Scroll down] "One of the things
I insisted on the day I walked into the Oval Office was that I don't want intelligence shaded by politics. I don't want it
shaded by the desire to tell a feel-good story. We can't make good policy unless we've got good, accurate, hard-headed,
clear-eyed intelligence," Obama told reporters at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he was wrapping up a
week-long overseas trip with stops in Turkey and the Philippines.
The Editor says...
Smokescreen. "Get to the bottom of this" is exactly what Obama would say if either President Valerie Jarrett or Obama himself
were at the bottom of it.
Obama
Says He Won't Relent in Fight Against ISIS Amid Questions About Intelligence Reports. President Obama said on
Sunday [11/23/2015] that he had ordered his senior defense officials to find out whether intelligence reports had been
altered to reflect a more optimistic assessment of the American military campaign against the Islamic State. Speaking at a
news conference before leaving Malaysia to return home at the end of a 10-day overseas trip, Mr. Obama said he expected the
Pentagon's inspector general to investigate allegations that significant changes were made to reports from analysts at the
United States Central Command, known as Centcom.
Obama
Says He's Personally Going To Destroy ISIS. Oh, wait, sorry, it seems like Obama is going to outsource everything to
other nations rather than showing the leadership that the United States was known for. Perhaps that is why he blocks 75% of
the air strikes against ISIS?
USAF
can't afford F-35, may buy F-15s, F-16s. The U.S. Air Force is having trouble paying for the initial buys for
the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and may instead purchase F-15, F-16, or F-18 aircraft to provide a stop-gap capability in the
near term as the F-35 fleet comes online. The service may buy up to 72 of the older model aircraft. Aviation Week
reported on comments from defense officials at the recent Defense IQ International Fighter Conference. The U.S. Air Force
"is struggling to afford 48 F-35s a year" for the first years of full-rate production, a senior officer said.
U.S.
Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes. U.S. military pilots who have returned
from the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq are confirming that they were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their
ordnance on terror targets because they could not get clearance to launch a strike, according to a leading member of Congress.
Strikes against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) targets are often blocked due to an Obama administration policy to
prevent civilian deaths and collateral damage, according to Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Obama
has created perfect storm for terror attack on U.S. soil. A broken immigration system, open borders, a
president with no military strategy, sanctuary cities, 10,000 Syrian refugees headed our way and ISIS on the march —
add it all up, and what do we get? A perfect storm for another major terror attack on our soil. Who knew our Appeaser
in Chief would make peanut farmer President Jimmy Carter look strong?
FBI
Has Nearly 1,000 Active ISIS Probes Inside U.S.. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has nearly 1,000
active probes involving the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) inside the United States, dozens of law
enforcement officials disclose in a letter to President Obama. The officials are elected sheriffs in Colorado making a
case against the administration's plan to transfer terrorists held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to
facilities in the state. Forty-one of Colorado's elected sheriffs fired off the letter after two federal prisons in Florence
(Supermax and the U.S. Penitentiary) along with a state complex near Canon City were reviewed by the Pentagon for the potential
transfer. The plan is part of the president's longtime promise to close the top-security compound at the U.S. Naval
base in southeast Cuba. The big question is what will the government do with the remaining captives, indisputably the
world's most dangerous terrorists?
Obama's Pathological Blindness.
On the morning before the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris, Obama was bragging that ISIS is contained. Are you kidding me? Even before
the attacks everyone knew ISIS was on the march and couldn't possibly be contained. What have you done to contain them, by the way?
And why are we even talking about "containment" instead of wholesale destruction of a known enemy? What is Obama's strategy?
President Obama's Altered Reality.
Mr. Obama is not interested in protecting Americans. His daily actions prove it. [...] Why is it the Russians, the Jordanians, the
French can act quickly and do more damage to ISIS in a few short days than the most effective military on the face of the planet has done
in years? Why? Because our community-organizer-in-chief has put so many restrictions on our military that they cannot act.
They fly an average of about 7 missions a day and rarely drop bombs. Why? Because the "military expert" sitting in the
White House is calling the shots!
Obama's Pathological Blindness. It's hard to
believe we twice elected a president who refuses to defend the United States. I think people who used to dismiss our criticism of
President Obama as extreme are now realizing just how naive they were. [...] He obviously has no strategy, because he refuses to recognize
we're at war. The truth is that Obama is willfully blinded by his warped ideology, to which he has far more allegiance than the
United States.
US
Intel Analysts: Our Terrorism Reports Are Being Altered To Fit Administration's Narrative. The Pentagon's
inspector general opened an investigation into formal complaints by more than 50 US intelligence analysts charging their
reports on ISIS and al Qaeda are being altered "within the senior level of the intelligence command," The Daily Beast
reports. A written complaint by two senior analysts at US Central Command (CENTCOM), and corroborated by 50 other
analysts, allege reports on the two terrorist organizations are being watered-down by higher-ups at CENTCOM to fit in with
the Obama administration's public narrative that the US is containing and defeating ISIS and al Qaeda forces.
The
Disturbing Reason For The Navy's Trident Missile Test. Essentially, the military just issued a not-so-friendly
reminder to China and Russia: They are still the toughest kid on the block, and they are still fully capable of turning their
enemies into radioactive dust at a moment's notice. It's also the same sort of irresponsible and bellicose show of force that
every dying empire gives in its final days. It's a sign that our government can no longer dominate the planet by conventional
means. If they could, this nuclear display would be unnecessary.
GITMO
terrorists headed for Florence, Colorado. GITMO terrorists are coming to America and will be getting the same
rights as your average American citizen. Obama is so obsessed with closing Gitmo that a plan to ship terrorist to US soil
this coming week will be released. The likely spot is Florence, Colorado. But Obama may want to do with what he did with
illegals and ship them all over the country. Kansas and South Carolina are all possible destinations for the graduates of
Camp Gitmo.
Obama
pushes military frustration to highest level in decades. Key lawmakers from both parties say frustration with
the White House among the top military officers is at its highest level in decades, the product of President Obama's cautious
approach to the wars in Syria and Iraq and an indecisive inner circle of White House advisers who, critics say, have iced the
Pentagon out of the policymaking process. "There's a level of dissatisfaction among the uniformed military that I've
never seen in my time here," said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain in an interview. "For some of us
who are a little older, let's go back and read the Pentagon Papers — what the administration is doing is the kind of
incrementalism that defined much of the Vietnam conflict."
Obama's
War Advisors Turn on Him. On September 22, Barack Obama's hand-selected advisor coordinating global efforts to
combat the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, retired General John Allen, announced his intention to resign the post. Within a
week, Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, also handed in her resignation.
Given the ongoing wars in Europe and the Middle East into which the West is increasingly committing resources, these resignations
are alarming. In general, the flight of Obama's war advisors from his administration went unnoticed by all but the keenest
of observers. Both Allen and Farkas have determined, however, to make it difficult for the public to ignore their warnings.
Aaron
Allmon case makes Minot Air Force Base ground zero in military's new gender wars. He is an award-winning combat
photographer who stands accused of trying to pick up women in the public affairs office at MinotAir Force Base in North Dakota,
and for that prosecutors wanted to put him in prison for 130 years. The prosecutorial zeal was so great that an
Air Force officer appointed to investigate the case said the piled-up charges were combined to "artificially exaggerate the
criminality of the accused," who often was simply "socially maladroit and crass."
Pentagon
Farmed Out Its Coding to Russia. The Pentagon was tipped off in 2011 by a longtime Army contractor that Russian computer
programmers were helping to write computer software for sensitive U.S. military communications systems, setting in motion a four-year
federal investigation that ended this week with a multimillion-dollar fine against two firms involved in the work. The contractor,
John C. Kingsley, said in court documents filed in the case that he discovered the Russians' role after he was appointed to run one
of the firms in 2010. He said the software they wrote had made it possible for the Pentagon's communications systems to be infected
with viruses.
Pentagon
'gay' rape debacle: Report alleging male-on-male sexual trauma retracted. The American Psychological Association has taken the
extraordinary step of retracting an in-house journal article that asserted the rate of rape and other sexual trauma among military men was
as much as 15 times higher than the Pentagon's own survey. In a press released posted Sunday night [11/8/2015], the APA said outside
scholars had examined the study, "Preliminary Data Suggest Rates of Male Sexual Trauma May be Higher than Previously Reported," and determined
that the method for randomly selecting and surveying male combat veterans was flawed.
'Gay'
rape in military underreported by Pentagon. Far more military men are being raped by other men and experience
other sexual traumas than is reported by the Pentagon because of the stigma attached to such assaults, says a new study
released Tuesday [11/3/2015] by the American Psychological Association. "Rates of military sexual trauma among men who
served in the military may be as much as 15 times higher than has been previously reported, largely because of barriers
associated with stigma, beliefs in myths about male rape, and feelings of helplessness," the APA said in releasing findings
published in its periodical Psychological Services.
The
Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America. In July, 2015, President Barack Obama stripped out the
requirement for individuals becoming naturalized citizens to defend the United States through military service. On September 16[,]
2015 President Obama said in a video aimed at convincing migrants to pursue American citizenship that they didn't need to assimilate.
[Obama quote deleted.] There's another new turn of phrase designed to hide or soften what he is doing. "Nine million resident
migrants" — think about that for a moment. We wouldn't want you to get all serious about an oath, or make you uncomfortable.
There's one graduate of Harvard Law School who apparently never really learned anything about the Constitution at all.
Obama's
Corrupt and Immoral Abuse of the Military. Barack Obama's decision to send American special forces to Syria is
not only hypocritical, but also a corrupt and immoral abuse of his powers as commander-in-chief. This is not a comment on
his circumvention of Congress, which is something that most modern American presidents have done at one time or another with
respect to military engagements abroad. Rather, in Obama's case — uniquely in American history —
we have a president who puts Americans in harm's way for no evident reason other than personal political calculations.
America's
Weakening Military Strength Is Terrifying. Pretty much everyone — even ex-state senator Barack
Obama — says a president has no greater responsibility than national defense, protecting the homeland, its people
and interests abroad. So why isn't he?
Obama's Veto Betrays America's Military.
Sequestration has elicited garment-rending from Head Start administrators and builders of bridges to nowhere, because it has proven about the
only fiscal discipline of which Washington, D.C., is capable. President Obama, eager to end his presidency in an Oprah-style spending spree,
is determined to bust through the sequestration spending caps locked into place in 2011, and he is even willing to hold the United States military
hostage to do it. Hence his veto, last week, of the National Defense Authorization Act.
Obama's Purge. Obama's priority has been to replace
warriors in front line combat units with Illegal Aliens who are not proficient in English, women, transgender individuals, felons with police
records, and gay members who are being recruited into Obama's new "Politically Correct" US military. Obama has turned the US Armed
Forces into the first major openly gay military force in the world, and last year 11,000 straight male members in the US Armed Forces were
sexually assaulted by gays — driving the retention rate for straight males to new lows. The commanding officers of combat
forces that once were warriors are slowly being replaced by briefcase-carrying, yes-men and yes-women, more interested in driving the Social
Experiment On Diversity into the military, driving the "Political Correct" agenda requirement for promotion, howling out the strength of the
US Armed Forces, and purging thousands of senior enlisted Non Commissioned Officers who opposed massive social change in the US Armed Forces.
Barack
Obama Vetos Defense Bill Because It Spends Too Little. The glory days of big spending liberalism are back.
Barack Obama has just vetoed a defense spending bill that spends $612 billion. Why? It does not spend enough
on non-defense spending. That's right. Barack Obama wanted more domestic spending. The Republicans and enough
Democrats in the Senate refused. So Obama vetoed it.
Obama
draws another red line, but this one's against the U.S. military. President Obama [...] has vetoed the massive, bipartisan
defense authorization bill, a $612 billion compendium of national defense spending, including weapons procurements, pay and retirement
benefits for troops. It's a political move Obama hopes gives him leverage to force Republicans to lift the strict budget spending
caps that were the president's own idea in 2011. It sets up another budget confrontation and potential government shutdown
around Thanksgiving, which Obama figures will be blamed on the GOP.
Lawmakers
Slam Obama for Using Troops as 'Pawns' in Spending Fight. Republican lawmakers criticized President Obama
Wednesday [10/21/2015] for promising to veto the defense policy bill that would authorize about $612 billion in defense
funding for fiscal year 2016. Multiple GOP representatives, including members of the House Armed Services Committee,
told the Washington Free Beacon Wednesday [10/21/2015] that the president's promised veto has nothing do with America's
national security but is related to his effort to boost domestic funding for agencies such as the IRS and EPA.
Obama
ignores generals' advice on troop levels for unprecedented sixth time. In the end, President Obama was forced to listen to his
generals — not his political instincts — on Afghanistan troop levels, and he decided to split the difference. Mr.
Obama is keeping 5,500 troops in Afghanistan beyond his presidency, about half the strength recommended by his top general in-country.
It marks the sixth time he has rejected the advice of a ground commander on the force size in the long Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Military experts call that streak unprecedented for a commander in chief.
Gates:
Obama's Distrust of Military 'Particularly True in Afghanistan'. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said
President Obama distrusted the military, and "this was particularly true in Afghanistan" in an interview that was taped
earlier in the week and broadcast on Thursday's [10/15/2015] "Special Report" on the Fox News Channel.
Ted
Cruz: The military shouldn't be a 'cauldron for social experiments'. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said Monday [10/12/2015] that
the military's moves to include transgender soldiers in its ranks had shifted its focus away from its core mission. The military
will soon allow transgender soldiers to serve, noted Cruz. "How about having the military focusing on hunting down and killing the
bad guys... instead of treating it as this crucible for social justice innovations. We've lost sight of what their job is and that's
what we need to get back to."
Obama:
My Idea Of World Leadership Is Fighting Climate Change. President Obama indicates that when it comes to world
leadership, he has mostly disdain for people who compare him to Russian President Vladimir Putin. When challenged by "60 Minutes"
interviewer Steve Kroft about ceding leadership in the Middle East to Putin, Obama argued that leadership on climate change was more
important than leadership to combat terrorism.
And Now Obama
Threatens our National Defense with This.... Many people are aware, and still many aren't, that under Barack Hussein
Obama, America saw its first National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that defied the Fifth Amendment and allowed for the
indefinite detention of people on US soil without due process of law. The backlash from that was that several cities,
counties and states fashioned their own nullification laws against the NDAA's indefinite provision. Recently, the House of
Representatives passed the 2016 NDAA, and once again, not only did they fail to provide language that would stop indefinite
detention, but Barack Obama has threatened to veto it, which will effectively stop the funding of our national defense, but
not for that reason.
Obama
Paints Border Patrol with Rainbow Colors. Border Patrol agents and others operating under the umbrella of
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) must now consider not only the sex of the criminal they are detaining, but the "gender
identity" of the individual and how they feel and identify. The terms "illegal alien" or even "illegal immigrant" do not
appear at all in a new 31-page instruction document. The new rules were published by CBP and according to the agency,
"includes language on gender identity, which was not previously included in the individual component policies. Specifically,
whenever feasible, officers and agents who conduct a search or are present at a medical examination must be of the same gender,
gender identity, or declared gender as the individual being searched."
The Editor says...
In other words, the Border Patrol will have to add plenty of transvestites to its staff to comply with this order.
U.S.
Marines introduce 29 gender-neutral jobs. The U.S. Marine Corps has unveiled new physical standards that all
recruits — male and female — must meet to qualify for 29 of the branch's jobs.
The Most Dangerous Man In the World. ...is
neither Russia's Vladimir Putin nor China's Xi Jinping, nor at this time, Ayatollah Khamenei — it's none other than America's Barack Hussein
Obama. This is not because of any aggressive, risk-laden actions he has taken, far from it. It is because of those he has
failed to take at critical times to credibly dissuade strategic competitors and potential aggressors, such as Russia and China, from
actions that may suddenly compound into destabilizing confrontations, even war. When the Middle East cauldron spawned the barbaric
ISIS, Obama's indecisive, pusillanimous response allowed this Islamic malignancy to rapidly metastasize, compounding and accelerating an
existing refugee problem that will involve America. Additionally, throughout his tenure, overt actions Obama has taken served to
steadily and materially, degrade American military capabilities, while enemies grow stronger.
Planned Parenthood vs. the
Military. [Scroll down] The Pentagon memo also indicates that those who potentially go without pay during the
duration of a government shutdown will eventually receive their pay. So I can't help but wonder why the DoD would "warn"
troops about the dire consequences of a shutdown when the fact is that everyone will get their due pay — though it may
be late in some cases — and Congress is currently preparing an emergency military funding bill as a contingency.
I think the answer is simple: The Department of Defense, under Obama-appointed leaders, has become hopelessly politicized.
Obama
administration admitted 1,519 foreigners with terrorist ties into the U.S.. Judicial Watch reports that the
Obama administration has granted asylum or residency to 1,519 foreigners with terrorist ties. This information comes from an
annual report to Congress by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). More than half of the terror
supporters granted asylum or residency by Team Obama provided material support to terrorist organizations, according to the USCIS
report. Other received military-type training from a terrorist organization (nine fall into this category), voluntarily provided
medical care to members of a terrorist group, or solicited funds or recruited individuals for membership in a terrorist organization.
That
new U.S. Army patch with scimitars is downright creepy. Don't fail to notice that the red, white, and blue of
American tradition have been replaced by green, the color of Islam. So let's not get lost in the lies being peddled about
the symbolism behind the swords or any other aspect of the design of this despicable new patch. We're awake and we know what
it means. It is yet another act to undermine our military — and indeed our nation — by aligning the
United States with the enemy as Obama sends signal after signal to the Muslim world that he stands with them and not with the
United States.
All Charges Against Sgt.
Charles Martland Must Be Dropped, Now. If our troops had been detailed to serve as observers with the British in India in
the nineteenth century, would we have expected them to look on with indifference as a young widow was placed on her late husband's funeral
pyre? The British resolutely stopped such inhuman and barbaric practices. And they suffered no pangs of conscience about
interfering. But it's our custom, some of the village elders in those days protested, to burn living women with their dead
husband's body. And it's our custom to hang you if you do, responded the British officers. That was called civilization.
Sergeant Charles Martland is currently being persecuted by the U.S. Army for forcefully intervening to stop an Afghan military leader from
raping a little boy. The Army brass want to drum Sgt. Martland out of the service for his heroic actions.
Tolerating
Pederasty. Americans have an almost universal revulsion towards child molesters. Even among prisoners, some of
whom are guilty of the heinous crime of murder, pedophiles are viewed with such disgust that their very lives are forfeit.
They are considered the lowest of the low. That innate revulsion also arises among our military when mere children are
raped. Sexually abusing and torturing kids is something that sickens and enrages even the most battle-hardened American
soldiers. It is something our military has always found absolutely intolerable. That is why the revelation that U.S.
soldiers have been ordered to stand down and do nothing when they hear little boys screaming as they are sodomized by Afghani
military personnel is virtually incomprehensible. [...] If the rape of boys cannot be reproached but must be tolerated as a
cultural practice, just what might evoke justifiable moral outrage?
Obama's Silence on Afghan
Military's Child Rape. American soldiers are being punished for blowing the whistle on the systematic rape and enslavement
of young boys at the hands of brutal Afghan Muslim military officials. Honorable men in uniform risked their careers and lives to
stop the abuse. Yet, the White House — which was busy tweeting about its new feminism-pandering "It's On Us" campaign
against an alleged college rape crisis based on debunked statistics — is AWOL on the actual pedophilia epidemic known as
"bacha bazi." On Thursday [9/24/2015], Obama administration flacks went out of their way to downplay Afghan child rape as
"abhorrent," but "fundamentally" a local "law enforcement matter." This is the price the innocents pay for blind multiculturalism.
Army
Rejects Appeal From Green Beret Fired After Confronting Rapist. Even as the U.S. military denies reports that
American troops were told to ignore Afghan child abusers, an 11-year Green Beret who was ordered discharged after he
confronted an alleged rapist was informed Tuesday that the Army has denied his appeal. Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland
earlier this year was ordered discharged by Nov. 1. He has been fighting to stay in, but in an initial decision,
the U.S. Army Human Resources Command told Martland that his appeal "does not meet the criteria" for an appeal.
"Consequently, your request for an appeal and continued service is disapproved," the office wrote in a memo to Martland.
Obama
Administration Enables 'Boy Play'. Here's what America's newly homosexualized, "values neutral" military looks
like. Last week, in a strange fit of actual news reporting, the New York Times published an exposé revealing that,
under this Obama administration, the Department of Defense is not only permitting the homosexual abuse of little boys at the
hands of Muslim allies in Afghanistan, but is effectively facilitating it. A handful of U.S. servicemen have had enough and
are courageously blowing the whistle on this unimaginably evil policy. Naturally, they're being punished and drummed out of the
service for doing so.
The Editor says...
There is only one reason the Commander-in-Chief would permit this.
Obama
to nominate first openly gay service secretary to lead the Army. President Obama, in a historic first for the
Pentagon, has chosen to nominate Eric Fanning to lead the Army, a move that would make him the first openly gay civilian
secretary of one of the military services. Fanning, 47, has been a specialist on national security issues for more than
two decades and has played a key role overseeing some of the Pentagon's biggest shipbuilding and fighter jet programs. Now he
will oversee an Army that has been battered by the longest stretch of continuous combat in U.S. history and is facing potentially
severe budget cuts.
Obama
nominates first openly gay military service chief. President Barack Obama is nominating longtime Pentagon
official Eric Fanning to be the Army's new secretary. If confirmed, Fanning, a civilian, would be the nation's first openly
gay leader of a military service. The nomination comes at a time when the Obama administration is working to eliminate
barriers to military service based on sexuality or gender. The "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allowed homosexuals to
serve in the military as long as they hid their sexuality was officially repealed during Obama's first term. Gays are now
allowed to openly serve.
Dozens
of spies insist their reports on JV team were altered to please president. This will no doubt come as shocking
news... to Barack Obama and his press secretary. A new report claims that scores of intelligence analysts (read: spies)
have begun talking out of school and are complaining that their reports on major terror groups have been "inappropriately
altered" to paint a brighter picture before being passed on to the President and other leaders. Who could have possibly
suspected that this was going on?
Spy
Report Book-Cooking Howls For Reform. Fifty intelligence analysts whose job is to honestly assess what's going
on in the Middle East have charged their reports about Islamic State's rise were systematically altered by senior officials
to the opposite of what they meant: "Happy talk" about the terror group being "on the run" and merely a "JV" version of
al-Qaida, according to a report in the Daily Beast. In a letter to the Pentagon Inspector General's Office, the analysts
said their reports were corrupted to further the White House's narrative that the Middle East was little more than George Bush's
war, and President Obama's premature pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan amounted to "victories." It wasn't, and they didn't.
The shambles of the Middle East and the surprise rise of Islamic State show that something different was going on, and now we know it
had a name: Obama's Domestic Political Priorities.
Obama
Makes Excuses for Chinese Warships in U.S. Waters. Pentagon officials said Thursday that five Chinese warships
that appeared near Alaska during President Barack Obama's visit this week passed through U.S. territorial waters —
and hastened to defend China's actions as being consistent with international law. The rush to avoid an international
crisis contrasts sharply with China's own aggression any time the U.S. approaches Chinese waters or airspace, even where
Chinese claims are dubious.
President Obama's Peculiarity. A
year after President Obama vacates the White House almost any Republican president working with the Republican Congress will have
cleaned up the mess — except for the debt. That will take longer. In foreign policy things may be even
worse. A nuclear Iran will have to be dealt with. When the President without a shadow leaves office after withdrawing
American power from every corner of the world, Americans will see how dangerous a community activist can be in the White House.
Obama
Fighting With Another Defense Secretary Over Freeing Terrorists. After fighting hard to make Hagel the Secretary of
Defense, Obama fired him because he was delaying the release of Islamic terrorists from Guantanamo Bay. [...] You would think that
Obama would have found a toady this time around willing to let anyone out of Gitmo, but he's having Defense Secretary troubles again.
Gun
free zones are really just sitting duck zones for radical Islamists. Why do we trust American soldiers with
tanks, trucks, bullets, and bombs on the battlefield, but when these same soldiers are home on a military base, sidearms are
just 'too dangerous'? Why have we allowed liberals to transform American military bases into 'gun-free zones,' or as I call
them, 'sitting-duck zones'? American soldiers are the most highly-trained people in our country to handle firearms, and
it's ridiculous to make them 'check their weapons at the door'. If we trust them to kill our enemies and keep us safe, it's
completely incomprehensible, insulting, and insane to forcibly disarm our heroes on American military bases and related
installations. After all, we don't disarm police officers when they get into their squad cars.
Pentagon
Considers Offering Leaves of Absence to Transgender Troops Undergoing Surgery. The Pentagon is preparing to end
the ban on transgender troops in the military by May 27 of next year, according to a memo sent to top military personnel and
medical officials last week. The Aug. 19 document, which maps out a timeline of the end to the policy, also indicates that
the military is considering implementing a pilot program that would grant leaves of absence to transgender soldiers undergoing surgery
or treatment with hormones.
Pentagon
Fears It's Not Ready for a War With Putin. A series of classified exercises over the summer has raised concerns
inside the Defense Department that its forces are not prepared for a sustained military campaign against Russia, two defense
officials told The Daily Beast. Many within the military believe that 15 years of counter terrorism warfare has left the
ground troops ill prepared to maintain logistics or troops levels should Russia make an advance on NATO allies, the officials said.
With
Obama's Help, Assembling Al Qaeda's Domestic Army Is Now Easier. If immigrants to the U.S. seek citizenship
but are reluctant to take an oath of allegiance because it requires a commitment to help defend the country, what is the
solution? If the immigrants in question are Muslim and you have a pro-Muslim U.S. president, the solution is
simple — just change the oath to accommodate them. [...] The quandary for U.S. citizen candidates who are
Muslim is this: Just like America's first two wars as a new nation were against Muslims, so too have its last two
been. However, Islamic law — sharia — prohibits Muslims from fighting fellow Muslims.
U.S. won't
have aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf for at least 2 months. While there have been
so-called "carrier gaps" in the Persian Gulf before, this one will leave the Navy without the
presence of a high-profile aircraft carrier just as a proposed nuclear deal with Iran is at center
stage. It also comes as Iranian naval forces have conducted low-level harassment of U.S. and other
shipping in the region.
Obama
Administration Modifies U.S. Oath of Allegiance to Accommodate Muslims. The Obama
administration recently made changes to the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in a manner very
conducive to Sharia, or Islamic law. [...] The new changes further add that new candidates "May be
eligible for [additional?] modifications based on religious training and belief, or conscientious
objection arising from a deeply held moral or ethical code." These changes serve incoming Islamic
supremacists especially well. For, while Islamic law allows Muslims to feign loyalty to non-Muslim
"infidel" authorities, it bans Muslims from living up to the pretense by actually fighting or killing
fellow Muslims on behalf of a non-Muslim entity, such as the United States. [...] Now, in direct compliance
with Islamic law, the Obama administration has made it so that no Muslim living in America need ever worry
about having to defend her — including against fellow Muslims or jihadis.
Thin Red Line.
The Army and the Navy cannot do what they once could and might soon be required to do again. They
don't have enough soldiers and enough ships. Even reduced to the lowest force levels in years, the
Army, as USA Today reports.
Legal
issues delay arming recruiters for U.S. military. Capitol Hill Republicans are pushing
to arm service members at recruitment centers in the wake of the deadly Chattanooga, Tennessee,
attack, but a "patchwork" of laws may get in the way. While federal law gives the secretaries of
the various armed forces the power to arm military employees if there's a threat to a particular
military base, most recruitment centers are located in malls or in public places — not
federal land — and it's unclear if the law applies to recruiters or reservists.
Even Barney Fife had one bullet. The
Few, the Proud, the Unarmed. Ever get the feeling that you went to sleep one night and
awakened to find somebody stole your country and replaced it with an insane asylum? We trust our
warriors with weapons in foreign countries but not on their home turf? This is what's flying over
the D.C. cuckoo's nest. Imagine that you're being held hostage by the "Death to America" Islamic
Republic of Iran. Your president negotiates a nuclear "agreement" with the regime, but he's too
needy and impotent to secure your release as part of the agreement. Is there any message that would
bring more joy to your heart than: "The Marines have landed?" They'd be packing heat, unlike
the unarmed victims at Chattanooga, Fort Hood, the DC Navy Yard, and Little Rock — United
States of America.
Obama
Edits Oath of Allegiance for New Americans, Deletes Pledge to Defend the U.S.. Newly
naturalized Americans will no longer have to pledge to defend the USA thanks to the Obama administration's
decision to remove the lines requiring new citizens to bear arms on behalf of the United States or perform
noncombatant duties in the armed forces in times of war. Obama's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services ruled that effective on July 21 of this year, some candidates for naturalization will skip the
services clause while taking the oath to become Americans. So that means that in an age when people are
streaming here to pretend to become Americans in order to commit acts of terror, now Obama won't even ask
them to voice the words that they will defend the USA.
USCIS
Denies That Modifications to Oath of Allegiance Flout the Law. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS) has denied that the modifications to military service requirements in the Oath of Allegiance published on July 21
flout the law, despite harsh criticism from immigration experts and members of Congress. "Candidates for citizenship
normally declare that they will 'bear arms on behalf of the United States' and 'perform noncombatant service in the Armed
Forces of the United States' when required by law," stated USCIS on July 21. "A candidate may be eligible to
exclude these two clauses based on religious training and belief or a conscientious objection."
Sen.
Tom Cotton: Changes To Citizenship Oath 'Undermines What It Means To Be A Citizen'.
Tuesday [7/21/2015], U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it was altering the
eligibility requirements for modifications to the Oath of Allegiance. Namely, while immigrants
seeking to become citizens are usually required to declare they will "bear arms on behalf of the
United States" and "perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States," the new
guidance now allows for not only those with religious objections but also people with a strongly
held beliefs to omit those portions.
New
Citizenship Oath drops requirement to defend the United States. This flies in the face
of American history and tradition and law. Under the Selective Service Act, every US citizen is
required to register for a possible draft. It is up to local draft boards to award Conscientious
Objector status and if they award CO status they can legally require alternative non-combatant service.
Immigration
Agency: New Citizens No Longer Need to Pledge to Bear Arms to Defend the United States. All new
citizens take the oath of allegiance upon becoming naturalized Americans: [...] The oath has been unchanged
since 1929, and such oaths have been required upon naturalization since at least 1795. But in looking
around for more "transformations" of America that can be effected, Obama's busy-bee bureaucrats found the
oath of allegiance a perfect target. So the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said on Thursday
[7/23/2015] that it would no longer require new citizens to pledge that they will "bear arms on behalf of the
United States" or "perform noncombatant service" in the armed forces as part of the naturalization process.
Obama
Admin. Updates Eligibility Requirements To Omit Portions Of Citizenship Oath. U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services is highlighting clarified guidance for those immigrants wishing
to omit portions of the citizenship oath. USCIS explained Tuesday [7/21/2015] that while reciting
the Oath of Allegiance is part of the naturalization process, immigrant candidates for citizenship
may omit portions of the oath if they have certain religious or conscientious objections. [...]
Under the clarified guidance from USCIS, certain immigrant candidates for citizenship do not need to
declare that they will "bear arms on behalf of the United States" and "perform noncombatant service
in the Armed Forces of the United States."
Disaster:
Today's Warrior Purge in the U.S. military. Needed warriors are now being purged from the U.S. military. If
America went to war right now with China or Russia, we could lose because of these purges. We're losing top-level warrior-leaders
to make the crucial differences in battle. They're being systematically drummed out as politically incorrect. When the
going gets tough, political correctness (PC) is useless. Then the brilliant, wily fighters, the coolest heads, the most
courageous warriors, are needed to lead regardless of social views or record. Today, in large measure, our fighting forces are
led by briefcase-carrying busybodies, yes-men more interested in enforcing political beliefs and social change than leading in battle.
Freedom fries
no more: Sailors angry after Navy bans fried food. The Navy is going on a health kick
and removing all fried food from dining hall menus. In an effort to kick up its healthy eating
"Go for Green" campaign, it will stop frying foods like chicken and french fries and bake them instead.
It is also axing whole milk and replacing it with skim and soy, reports Navy Times.
Navy to Ban Fried Food.
Sailors are blaming First Lady Michelle Obama after a report revealed that the Navy is preparing a full ban on fried food.
Sailors
Blame Michelle Obama For Navy's Fried Food Ban. Sailors outraged over the Navy's plan to phase out
fried foods from its menus have found the perfect vessel for their anger in First Lady Michelle Obama. The
First Lady doesn't set nutrition policy for the nation's fleets. But that hasn't stopped more than two dozen
critics — many of them current and former Navy personnel — from flooding a Navy Times Facebook
thread to blame FLOTUS, who has made combating obesity and promoting healthy eating her signature issues.
Pentagon
Readying Plan to Lift Transgender Ban. The Pentagon's current regulations banning
transgender individuals from serving in the military are outdated, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said
Monday, ordering a six-month study aimed at formally ending one of the last gender- or
sexuality-based barriers to military service.
The Coming Confrontation.
Our military has withstood a purge of loyal generals and leadership. Obama feels he owns the military and can
turn it into a social experiment. What do we expect from a socialist with no respect for our country or our
traditions including our military traditions. There was a time, when the United States could fight a two theatre
war and maintain our military readiness. Now we have to beg other countries to help because we don't have enough
ships to take our military anywhere if a conflict should break out. Our military is in the worst shape it has been
since World War II.
For
the Want of a Budget Gimmick, the Kingdom Was Lost. In at last announcing in detail
that it would reduce the size of its active-duty force, currently 490,000, by 40,000 soldiers over
the next two years, the U.S. Army seems finally and for a day to have captured the attention of the
political class. In fact this is not news, but the long-anticipated result of the defense budget
cuts agreed to under the 2011 Budget Control Act.
Army
plans to cut 40,000 troops. The Army plans to cut 40,000 soldiers from its ranks over the next two
years, a reduction that will affect virtually all of its domestic and foreign posts, the service asserts in a
document obtained by USA TODAY. The potential troop cut comes as the Obama administration is pondering its
next moves against the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria. President Obama said Monday [7/6/2015]
he and military leaders had not discussed sending additional troops to Iraq to fight the Islamic State.
There are about 3,500 troops in Iraq.
Cultural aggression,
destructive policies, and ceaseless smearing are wearing out a great people. [Scroll
down] Militarily we're weaker now than we were before World War II began, and our president
seems more interested in sex changes for our soldiers — giving a new meaning to "private
parts" — than in maintaining our naval strength. That weakness is undoubtedly provocative;
just ask Vladimir Putin, Khamenei, and the Chinese. And when the balloon rises, so does the specter
of our now $18 trillion national debt. How to finance a coming major war when we're already
mortgaged to the hilt? The answer is it can't be done, meaning American weakness is locked in.
US
Army plans to cut 40,000 troops over next two years. The U.S. Army is planning to cut
more than 40,000 troops over the next two years, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox
News Tuesday [7/7/2015]. General Martin Dempsey announced at a Senate Armed Services Committee
Hearing Tuesday that dwindling resources was a major factor in the decision to cut the number of
active troops from 450,000 to 490,000.
U.S.
Troops Face Eating, Drinking Restrictions During Ramadan. A top commander in southwest Asia reminded U.S
military personnel stationed in Muslim countries in the Middle East of the restrictions placed on them during Ramadan.
According to a report by the U.S. Air Forces Central Command Public Affairs, Brig. Gen. John Quintas, 380th Air Expeditionary
Wing commander in Southwest Asia, said that the U.S. is "committed to the concepts of tolerance, freedom and diversity."
Can
I see that birth certificate again, please? I believe any thinking person would say a disastrous caliphate
being stood up in the Middle East, Iran getting a nuclear weapon and threatening Israel's existence, increased
terrorist attacks in the United States, a refusal to call Islamic terrorism what it is, China hacking entire departments
of classified data and ripping us off blind, terrorists streaming across the southern border, illegal immigrants being
resettled in large numbers without the knowledge of the states or local communities, the American military on its way
to levels not seen since before World War II, et cetera, et cetera. It makes you wonder, doesn't it? What
could be the agenda allowing all of this to happen? Or should I say, encouraging all of this to happen?
Shame
of a Nation: Marines Forced to Deploy Via Foreign Ships. Notice how socialism always
and everywhere results in "shortages," every time it's tried. Well, our own socialist chickens have
now come home to roost: ["]Faced with a shortage of U.S. Navy ships, the Marine Corps is exploring
a plan to deploy its forces aboard foreign vessels to ensure they can respond quickly to global crises
around Europe and western Africa. The initiative is a stopgap way to deploy Marines aboard ships
overseas until more American vessels are available, said Brig. Gen. Norman Cooling, deputy commander,
U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa.["]
Marines
looking at deploying aboard foreign ships. Faced with a shortage of U.S. Navy ships,
the Marine Corps is exploring a plan to deploy its forces aboard foreign vessels to ensure they can
respond quickly to global crises around Europe and western Africa. The initiative is a stopgap
way to deploy Marines aboard ships overseas until more American vessels are available, said Brig.
Gen. Norman Cooling, deputy commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa.
The military has plenty of busy work without this: Obama
forcing military to measure Arctic ice levels. Even as the U.S. military struggles to
contain the Islamic State and deals with other terrorist threats across the globe, President Obama
increasingly is recruiting the Pentagon to advance his sweeping climate change agenda. Mr.
Obama's Defense Department calls global warming a true national security threat and has begun
instituting a host of environmental measures, ranging from building clean energy projects at
military installations to the use of expensive green fuels in planes. A recent report from the
Government Accountability Office highlighted yet another example — the commitment of U.S.
military forces to monitor sea ice levels in the Arctic, with the administration arguing that
decreasing ice could force the Pentagon to institute a "military and homeland security presence
in the region."
Green
Policies Kill Military Readiness and Vets. [Scroll down] What's more, [James M.]
Taylor noted, Obama has ordered the Defense Department to rely increasingly — as much as
25 percent of its energy — on "grossly expensive" solar and wind power that detracts from
military preparedness. "This is coming out of the defense budget," he said. "It's a budgetary
boondoggle that takes away from money that could be spent on men, machinery and weaponry, and instead is
being spent on more expensive power." He cited a machine made for the military that is supposed to be
dragged around on a battlefield and transforms trash into electricity, rather than being buried or burned.
The contraption was highlighted by the Mother Nature Network news service as one of the "6 green things
the U.S. military is doing." Citing another boondoggle, he said the Navy is paying an incredibly high
price of $67.50 per gallon for a "camelina-based fuel" made from a plant in the mustard family. Even more
shocking, he cited a case of money from the Department of Veterans Affairs intended for military care that is
instead being used to purchase solar panels.
"I
Had Groups of ISIS Fighters in My Sights, but Couldn't Get Clearance to Engage.". This
isn't really news. It's just a reminder that the air strikes on ISIS are being run in the same
disastrous fashion as those in Afghanistan. And it didn't begin with Obama. Lest we forget,
on the day before 9/11, Bill Clinton was boasting that he had let Osama bin Laden go to avoid collateral
damage. Obama Inc. talks about how the Iraqis don't want to fight. It neglects to mention
that it isn't letting the military fight.
The
All-volunteer Military: Too Much From Too Few. Since the end of the Cold War, American politicians and
generals seem to be lost in a strategic fog. Absent an existential threat like the Soviet Bloc, American military
assets, treasure, and young lives have been squandered on a series of small wars where the conflicts are ephemeral and
undeclared whilst objectives, or measures of effectiveness, are unclear. Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Libya, and
Yemen are just a few examples where military interventions made matters worse. Small wars today seem to have little
or nothing to do with any national goals and everything to do with domestic politics, political expediency, or the
transient crisis of the moment. Force commitment is reactive and ephemeral, not strategic. There is no
over-arching vision or objective like "Containment," to say nothing of reasonable expectations like victory.
Stated objectives and missions are trivialized with meaningless euphemisms like humanitarian concerns, training, "nation
building," or "stability." The worst of neologisms might be the so-called "war on terror," a pleonasm that
misfires on three counts.
Leading
docs group supports transgender in military. A leading group of U.S. doctors passed a resolution Monday [6/8/2015]
saying there's no medically valid reason to exclude transgender individuals from the military. The resolution, approved
unanimously by the American Medical Association's policy-making House of Delegates, calls the military's current rules about
transgender service members "out of date" and says transgender men and women are fit to serve in high-stress environments
just as any other qualified members are.
Obama's
gone from bad to wuss. From the Islamic State to Russia to Iran, America's adversaries
are making a calculated decision. They know Obama will, at most, talk a tough game but in the
end won't do much else. They also realize that time is running out on their chance to act
without consequences. With the raft of foreign-policy failures of the last six years a major
issue in the presidential campaign, Obama's successor is almost certain to be a more forceful leader
on the international stage.
Obama is Putting
Our Nuclear Navy at Risk. The search for the next Chief of Naval Operations has not
drawn much interest from the media, but there's good reason it should. By nominating Admiral John
Richardson, the current head of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, President Obama is jeopardizing a
tradition of excellence stretching back since America first developed nuclear submarines. John Lehman,
who served as President Reagan's Secretary of the Navy for six years, does an excellent job explaining
this in his Wall Street Journal editorial that ran this past Sunday [5/24/2015].
John Lehman gives Obama the (unwarranted) benefit of the doubt. Obama Torpedoes
the Nuclear Navy. President Obama, possibly unaware of the implications, has made a
mistake by nominating Adm. John Richardson as the new chief of naval operations. Adm. Richardson
likely would do a fine job in that important role, but by trying to move him from his current position
as director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, the president has crossed a line and created a
precedent that could have grave consequences for the effectiveness of the nation's nuclear fleet.
The Editor says...
Obama isn't just a hapless doofus who is
inadvertently weakening the military. He is
a Muslim who is intentionally dismantling America's defenses in order to facilitate
world domination by Islam.
John
Bolton underestimates Obama. The man-child sitting in the Oval Office spent his formative
years in Indonesia, finds the Muslim call to prayer the sweetest sound, decided that the mission of NASA
was Muslim outreach, gave his first interview as president to an Arab news station, jetted off to Cairo to
give a speech, and gave the Muslim Brotherhood front-row seats as he pandered and apologized, made his
first call as president to the leader of the Palestinian Authority, proclaimed on the world stage that
we must not slander Islam, labeled blatant acts of jihad terror as "workplace violence," has consistently
tipped the scales in the Middle East against our allies and in favor jihadists, is importing Muslims to
the United States from places like Syria at an alarming rate, is openly hostile to Israel, and is
negotiating with Iran. And that's just for starters. So yes, I agree with Mr. Bolton that
there is an absolute ideology at work. But it is not one of denial. It is one that is
actively and intentionally facilitating the growing caliphate. It is one that is willfully
undermining American military might, weakening our ability to defend ourselves against the threat
of Islamic jihad.
Defense
Sec at Arlington: 'Troops of Such Caliber' Have 'Great Leader' in Obama. At today's
Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Day observance, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said "troops of
such caliber demand great leaders, and there's no doubt they have one in our commander in chief."
"I see that every day," continued Carter, who assumed his post in February. "[...] And I see that he
cares deeply about the safety, welfare, and dignity of our men and women in uniform and their families."
Obama and Biden are misdirecting our military forces. Biden
To The Navy: 'Our Forces Will Have To Be Ready' For Climate Change. Speaking at a
Commencement Ceremony for the Naval Academy today [5/22/2015], Vice President Joe Biden warned
graduates that they would have to be prepared for the devastating effects of climate change.
"We'll rely on you, the United States Navy, to lead in solving these emerging problems," he said,
pointing to the massive devastation caused by a major typhoon in the Philippines. The United
States Navy, he explained, "filled the void" in the humanitarian efforts after the major natural disaster.
Obama
Snatched Ramadi Defeat from Bush Victory. The White House description of the fall of
Ramadi to ISIS forces we have supposedly been busy degrading and destroying as a "setback" is like
the British calling Dunkirk in World War II a strategic withdrawal. Ramadi is a defeat, the result
of the precipitous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by President Obama against the advice of military
minds who know better about these things than the former community organizer from Illinois. It is a
defeat for President Obama's foreign policy, a rebuke of his fundamental transformation of America's role
in the world from a leader who shaped events to one of treating foreign affairs as a spectator sport,
with the U.S. "leading from behind" and being left behind in the process.
Marine
Gen. James Mattis' assessment of Obama: U.S. suffering 'strategic atrophy'. Retired
Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis said the U.S. is suffering "strategic atrophy" that will threaten the
long-term security of the nation. The retired general and former Central Command (CENTCOM)
commander made the remarks while speaking at the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think
tank in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday [5/13/2015]. "The perception [among allies] is we're
pulling back," Gen. Mattis said, the U.S. Naval Institute reported Thursday.
As
If Iran Wasn't Enough: WaPo Worries Obama is Helping China Proliferate Nuclear Weapons.
Combined with then-President Bill Clinton's utterly criminal behavior, reportedly accepting donations
in exchange for releasing key missile guidance technologies to the Red Chinese, it would seem that the
leaders of the Democrat Party are determined to trigger a nuclear holocaust. The only question is why?
How
Obama's Made Sure to Leave Every Part of the World More Dangerous than He Found It.
[Scroll down] You see, Barack Obama was always secure in the belief that the constant
projection of American military power was the primary reason for anti-American sentiment around the
world. Alas, seven years later, a seemingly endless stream of apologies, attempts to placate the
world's miscreants, and inappropriate stabs at moral equivalency are primary components of a spectacularly
failed U.S. foreign policy. Seems the "cowboy" Bush and all those opportunistic militarists at the
Pentagon are not the reason so many bad guys take issue with the U.S. Similarly, the infamous
time-dishonored plea for time regarding negotiations with Russia speaks to a comfortable familiarity
with weak negotiating positions.
McCaul:
DHS Spending 'More Money' on Climate Change Than Combating Violent Extremists. Rep.
Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says the current
"threat environment" is as high as he's ever seen it, and although the U.S. has "done a very good
job" in preventing terror attacks in the U.S., he doesn't think the Obama administration "has done
enough" to counter "homegrown violent extremism." McCaul noted that President Obama's budget
"allocates zero dollars towards combating homegrown violent extremism.
U.S.
Sending A-10 Plane to Combat While Trying to Kill It. With its titanium armor, the
A-10, conceived in the early 1970s to destroy Soviet tanks, is beloved by generations of soldiers
and airmen for its ability to fly low to discern friend from foe and unleash more firepower than the
average fighter plane. Its 2.5-ton Gatling gun, built into the plane's nose to give it the
snout-like appearance, can fire more than 1,100 30-mm rounds.
First F-35 Jets Lack Ground-Combat Punch
of 1970s-Era A-10s. The first F-35 jets ready for combat won't be able to protect
forces in ground combat as well as the nearly 40-year-old A-10s the Pentagon wants to retire,
according to the Defense Department's chief weapons tester.
Air
Force mulls mothballing F-16s if Congress blocks A-10 retirement. The House Armed
Services Committee inserted $683 million into the 2016 defense bill to stop the Air Force from
retiring the A-10 Warthog. However, Air Force leaders said the service will have to mothball
F-16s and delay the deployment of the F-35 in response to the move by the committee.
Obama
says no to 401k plans for troops. The president announced on Thursday [4/30/2015] that he does not
support the blended military retirement plan recommended by a commission of experts earlier this year, just one
day after House members included it in their fiscal 2016 defense policy bill.
Protecting
sage grouse could hurt military, report says. Efforts to protect the greater sage
grouse under the federal Endangered Species Act could hurt training operations at numerous U.S.
military facilities in the West, according to a new report by the Army.
Navy
Chaplain Censored: 'Don't pray in the name of Jesus'. A Navy chaplain who faces the
end of a stellar 19-year career because of his faith-based views on marriage and human sexuality was
told by a base commander to refrain from offering a prayer in the name of Jesus, according to attorneys
representing the chaplain. That allegation was tucked away in an 18-page letter written to the
commander of Navy Region Southeast by Liberty Institute attorneys representing Chaplain Wesley Modder.
Liberty Institute is a law firm that specializes in religious liberty cases.
Army
ROTC program allegedly pressured cadets to walk in high heels for ASU event. Army ROTC
cadets are complaining on message boards that they were pressured to walk in high heels on Monday
for an Arizona State University campus event designed to raise awareness of sexual violence against
women. The Army openly encouraged participating in April's "Walk A Mile in Her Shoes" events in
2014, but now it appears as though ROTC candidates at ASU were faced with a volunteer event that
became mandatory.
Saving
a Plane That Saves Lives. When American troops find themselves fighting for their
lives, there is no better sound than an A-10, a plane officially nicknamed the Thunderbolt II but
known affectionately by the troops as the Warthog, firing its enormous 30-millimeter gun at the enemy.
It might not be pretty, but the A-10 is our most capable close air-support aircraft, and its arrival on the
battlefield signals survival for our troops and annihilation for our enemies. Yet over the last two
years, the Obama administration and the Air Force leadership have been working overtime to mothball our
entire A-10 fleet, 13 years ahead of schedule. They claim that other, newer planes can do the
same job, that it's too slow and vulnerable and that it's too expensive.
Obama's Liberationist
Military. The military under Barack Obama has increasingly embraced the philosophy of
the sexual revolution. At the same time, it reels from the consequences of that revolution.
Headlines in recent months suggest that moral discipline within the ranks continues to deteriorate.
Lawmakers decry reports showing a "50% increase in reports of military sexual assaults." One would
think a military with such problems might want to retain its Christian chaplains, not drive them away.
Yet that is the effect of its decision to prioritize political correctness. Obama's surrogates in the
military have made it clear to Christian chaplains that they should stay silent or leave.
Air
Force fires general over A-10 jets 'treason' remarks. An Air Force general has been
fired after an investigation into comments he made to lower-ranking officers about how talking to
members of Congress about the capabilities about the A-10 "Warthog" attack jet was tantamount to
treason, the Air Force confirmed Friday [4/10/2015]. The comments by Maj. Gen. James Post, the
number 2 commander at the Air Combat Command, had a "chilling effect on some of the attendees and
caused them to feel constrained from communicating with members of Congress," according to a report
by the Air Force inspector general.
Cheney:
If You Wanted a President 'To Take America Down ... It Would Look Exactly Like What Barack Obama's
Doing'. [Hugh] Hewitt asked the former vice president, "Is he naïve, Mr. Vice
President? Or does he have a far-reaching vision that only he entertains of a realigned Middle
East that somehow it all works out in the end?" "I don't know, Hugh. I vacillate between the
various theories I've heard, but you know, if you had somebody as president who wanted to take America
down, who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world and reduce our capacity to influence
events, turn our back on our allies and encourage our adversaries, it would look exactly like what
Barack Obama's doing. I think his actions are constituted in my mind those of the worst president
we've ever had."
Army
Soldiers Sit Through 'White Privilege' Presentation — and the Backlash Isn't Pretty. The U.S.
Army is investigating an unauthorized diversity training presentation on "white privilege" shown to hundreds of Georgia
soldiers, USA Today reported [4/3/2015], citing an Army spokeswoman. The Equal Opportunity training presentation
was shown to about 400 soldiers of the 67th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon on Thursday, according to Captain Lindsay
Roman. The portion of the program involved a slide projected on a screen entitled "The Luxury of Obliviousness,"
which listed elements of "white privilege."
"Sir,
I Will Not Obey That Order". If you hate this country, and you especially hate the
military, you simply cannot go around destroying the weapons — that's too obvious. But
you can do something much more subtle, and in the long run, even more disastrous, if your stated goal is
to fundamentally change the country and the military that protects and defends it. You don't
have to destroy the weapons. You don't even have to destroy the warriors. All you
have to do is create a set of conditions that are so incompatible with the warrior code
that the warriors will remove themselves, because these are people who risk death and dismemberment,
and whether at the tip or the end of the spear, generally live in appalling conditions, under great
emotional hardship, for disgraceful levels of pay.
When Barack's just 'Private Citizen'
Obama. Obama will likely be even more dangerous out of office than he was in office.
There is no doubt that joyful, resounding cheers will follow the celebrated retirement of the most
anti-American president ever elected when he departs from the White House in can't-come-too-soon
January 2017. Cheers guaranteed to soon become fears in contemplation of this chilling thought:
Obama will be taking every secret ever stored at the White House with him when he goes. Over nine
years as a top insider, he knows America's every vulnerability — including those he created
himself — even when and where it's best for the enemy to strike.
Odierno:
Readiness at historically low levels. The Army is "only generating enough readiness
for immediate consumption" while grappling with cuts that have left only a third of the service's
brigades ready, the chief of staff said Wednesday [4/1/2015]. "It's incumbent on all of us to
understand that further reductions simply will put us into a place we simply cannot go," Army Chief
of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said at the AUSA Institute of Land Warfare Global Force Symposium and
Exposition here.
This part of the Pentagon's budget is in no danger: Military
planning to spend billions on new Air Force One. The Pentagon is considering spending
billions of dollars on three new Boeing 747s to use as Air Force One, the aircraft that shuttles the
United States president. According to CBS News, the current Air Force One fleet is getting old,
and the U.S. military says it's time for a new generation to carry future commanders in chief.
"We've got a pretty good size team working on it," said Air Force Col. Amy McCain, who is in charge
of ordering the new Air Force One, according to the station.
Navy
bans chaplain from ministering to family of dead sailor. Chaplain [Wes] Modder is facing the end of a
stellar, 19-year-career in the Navy because he expressed his faith-based views on marriage and human sexuality during
private counseling sessions with sailors. Last December, a gay officer took offense at Christian chaplain's
take on homosexuality. Modder, who is endorsed by the Assemblies of God, was accused of discrimination and
failing to show tolerance and respect, among other things. Just a few months earlier, Modder's commander had
called him the "best of the best" and a "consummate professional leader." But now he's on the verge of being
kicked out of the military.
Top
military brass resisting calls to lift transgender ban. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has gotten
pushback from senior military leaders on whether the Pentagon should lift its ban on transgender people
serving in the armed forces, according to U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.
Navy
Beats Down Chaplain's Appeal for Religious Freedom in Homophobia Complaint. Using
language that once kept open gays out of the military, the commanding officer of the Navy Nuclear
Power Training Command is using identical language to remove a Christian Chaplain from his duties.
The Commander says certain kinds of Christian teachings are harmful to "unit cohesion" and "military
readiness." In a sharply-worded memo, Modder's commander denied his request for a "religious
accommodation" in a disciplinary process that has relieved him of his command and could kick him
out of the Navy forever.
McCain
Slams General Dempsey: 'Most Disappointing Chairman Of Joint Chiefs I Have Seen'.
Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain took a major shot at Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Martin Dempsey on Fox News' "America's Newsroom," calling him the worst chairman he's ever
seen, and nothing more than an "echo chamber" for President Barack Obama.
Former
SEALs chaplain could be kicked out of Navy for Christian beliefs. A chaplain who once
ministered to Navy SEALs could be thrown out of the military after he was accused of failing "to
show tolerance and respect" in private counseling sessions in regards to issues pertaining to faith,
marriage and sexuality, specifically homosexuality and pre-marital sex, according to documents
obtained exclusively by Fox News. Lt. Commander Wes Modder, who is endorsed by the Assemblies of
God, has also been accused of being unable to "function in the diverse and pluralistic environment"
of the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Goose Creek, S.C.
Rebuilding America's military:
Where Congress should increase defense spending. With the full impact of harsh caps on
defense spending set to resume next year, Congress has an important opportunity to analyze the
merits of the president's proposed increase and exceed it as necessary to target additional funds
towards addressing the military's readiness crisis. Here's how policymakers could spend additional
funds — up to and beyond the president's request of $534 billion.
U.S.
military decimated under Obama, only 'marginally able' to defend nation. The U.S.
military is shedding so many troops and weapons it is only "marginally able" to defend the nation
and falls short of the Obama administration's national security strategy, says a new report by The
Heritage Foundation Tuesday [2/24/2015]. "The U.S. military itself is aging. It's shrinking in
size," said Dakota Wood, a Heritage analyst. "And it's quickly becoming problematic in terms of
being able to address more than one major conflict."
[The]
U.S. Military [is] No Longer Able to Fight Two Wars at [the] Same Time. The United
States military does not currently have the ability to fight two major wars simultaneously,
according to a new report, a significant reduction from the capacity enjoyed by defense officials
for decades. The Heritage Foundation's "2015 Index of U.S. Military Strength" concludes that the
armed forces "would be ill-equipped to handle two, near-simultaneous major regional contingencies
(MRC)." The two-MRC goal was largely attained during the Cold War, when U.S. forces engaged in a
conflict every 15 to 20 years while maintaining ground forces in other regions to ensure
stability and deter aggressors.
No Way to Run a War.
[Scroll down] There's no concerted effort to actually accomplish anything, because other than
ridiculous, idle chatter about "jobs," Obama still doesn't have a concept for how to wage this war.
He's tried decimation-by-drone, but that has hardly kept al Qaeda "on the run." He's tried an air
campaign, but never really committed to it. He's sent troops into Iraq to train what's left of the
Iraqi Army, but not to fight alongside it. He's forged a coalition of some 60 countries, but won't
lead them and sometimes actively works (as with Egypt and Jordan) against them.
The Ultimate
failure of Barack Obama. We have now had Six years of Barack Obama where he pulled
troops out of Iraq, pulled American support from allies in Egypt, watch Russia advance in Ukraine
and intimidate the Eastern block countries and now this weekend our chief of homeland security told
America on three networks that if you are going to the Mall of America in Minnesota[:] "If
anyone is planning to go to the Mall of America today, they've got to be particularly careful[.]"
Think about that for a second, we went from fighting Islamic Terrorism, forcing the enemy to take
on the best trained, best equipped and most effective army in the history of the world in their
backyard, to the point where the head of the Department of Homeland security whose mission is to
protect Americans in America is warning Americans that they have to be careful in a Mall in the
United States.
New
Def Sec On Transgender Military Service: 'I'm Very Open-Minded'. New Defense Secretary
Ashton Carter indicated that he is open to transgender people serving in the U.S. military, as long
as they can do what is required of them. A Department of Defense (DoD) regulation prohibits
transgender individuals from openly serving in the military. The Pentagon has the power to
change that policy without congressional approval because it is a regulation, not a law.
Senator:
Air Force is Unlawfully Dismantling Airlift Wing. Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) is
raising concerns that the Air Force could be dismantling an airlift wing that helps train
troops — before providing a legally mandated report to Congress. Tillis sent a letter
to Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James about the proposed inactivation of the 440th Airlift Wing,
based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, his office said on Friday [2/20/2015]. The 440th flies C-130
aircraft that assist with training for airborne units in the Army and Special Forces Groups at the base.
Last year's defense spending bill required the Air Force to submit a report to Congress on the future of
the C-130. Lawmakers would then have 60 days to deliver their responses. However, Tillis
said in his letter that the Air Force has begun removing airmen from the 440th despite not yet sending the
report to Congress.
Making plans is great. Telling everybody about them is not. U.S.
plans large-scale operation to take Mosul from Islamic State. The U.S. is planning to
join a large-scale air and ground coalition offensive to free Mosul, Iraq, from the clutches of
Islamic State militants in coming weeks, but analysts fear the effort will lack the resources to
succeed — most notably U.S. boots on the ground. The plan, part of a larger
undertaking dubbed Operation Inherent Resolve, will be the first challenge for Defense Secretary
Ashton Carter in trying to balance the expectations of the White House with the needs of the
military. Many policy analysts say the choices Mr. Carter makes in the Iraq operation
will be indicative of his style of leadership at the Pentagon.
Disclosures
of Battle Plan by Pentagon Startle Many. The Obama administration has been eager to
show momentum against the Islamic State after a conference last week dramatized the hurdles to
countering the terrorist group's propaganda. But the Pentagon may have gone too far in sharing its
military planning. On Thursday, a senior official from the American military's Central Command
told reporters that Iraqi and Kurdish forces, with help from the United States, were preparing to
launch an assault to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul in April or May, before the searing heat of the
Iraqi summer. The assault force, the official said, would consist of up to 25,000 Iraqi and
Kurdish troops.
Plan
to retake Mosul announced. A very curious briefing by an anonymous officer who works
at US Central Command headquarters on plans for a joint Iraqi-Kurdish operation to retake the city
of Mosul. Why telegraph your punches? Why let Islamic State know you're coming?
Fox News also interviewed two intelligence officers who couldn't figure out why some anonymous officer
at CENTCOM would announce our intentions ahead of time. [...] Can you imagine some anonymous officer
at General Eisenhower's SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) headquarters
briefing the press about D-Day?
Showing
our hand? US military official outlines plan to retake Iraqi city of Mosul. "That is
pretty amazing that that information's out there," retired Gen. Jack Keane, former Army vice chief
of staff and a Fox News military analyst, said Friday [2/20/2015]. A current and former military
intelligence officer also told Fox News that the decision to publicly announce the plan was
counterintuitive because it "telegraphs" the timing and number of units involved. The officers said
it would allow Islamic State, also known as ISIS, or ISIL, to prepare for the battle by laying
improvised explosive devices. Both officers questioned whether political considerations on
the part of the Obama administration factored into the decision to announce the offensive.
Senator
Tom Cotton Disusses The Political Decision to Military Plans to the Enemy. "If a
private in Iraq had revealed this kind of planning inadvertently by leaving a plan in the channel
hall of the gym, he might have faced a court-martial, but now it's now become a matter of policy
this administration is going to announce war plans in advance, it only increases risks."
Exclusive:
Pentagon Doubts Its Own ISIS War Plan. Less than 24 hours after U.S. military
officials publicly detailed their plans for a spring offensive on ISIS-held Mosul, Iraq's second
largest city, many within the Pentagon privately questioned whether that timetable was plausible.
They said that they were dubious that their partners in the Iraqi military — the troops
supposed to lead the offensive — would be capable of conducting such a campaign by then.
"I really doubt it is going to happen that soon," said one military officer who, like several
others, served in Iraq between 2003-2011 and spoke on condition of anonymity. "And if it
does, it will take months."
Decisions
on removing transgender soldiers from Army moving to federal level. USA Today has
turned up an interesting memo making its way through the ranks of the Army this month which, if
implemented, will impact how personnel procedures are handled. According to the memo, the decision
to process and discharge transgender soldiers would be made by a high level civilian official,
presumably making it far more unlikely that such dismissals would take place.
President Obama, America's
Nero. Like Nero of ancient Rome, Obama fiddles, takes selfies and does Internet interviews while
the world burns. Is he trying to distract himself, or us? To use a sports analogy, is he trying to
"run out the clock" and leave office before terrorist fires consume us? We have a president who is
mismatched to the times in which we live. He is unserious when seriousness is required. The
tyrants of the world have taken notice and rightly calculated they can pretty much do what they want
without paying a heavy penalty.
Enemies
of the West Find a Friend in Obama. Victor Davis Hanson suggested on NRO this month
that Obama's goal is a deliberately calibrated weakening of the United States. He aims to degrade
American might, because he believes that "for America to quietly recede and give other nations a
chance to direct their own affairs and become global actors would be far more equitable, leading to
a world that far better represents heretofore unrepresented billions of people." Hanson's is a
generous interpretation of Obama's motives. Whatever Obama's intentions, his actions will serve
not to strengthen civilization but to weaken it. If the United States recedes as Obama seems to
wish, those billions of people will not be "represented," but even further subjugated.
Bob
Woodward: There Is "No Strategy" To Defeat ISIS, WH "Micromanaging" War. If you talk
to people in the White House and the military, I think there is agreement that John McCain is right
and Gen. Flynn is right: there is no strategy. [...] People in the White House are micromanaging the
tactical situation on a daily and weekly basis. That is not their job. They have to do strategic
planning, and say what do we want to accomplish in the next year.
The End of a Dream.
Pervasive disconnect is the Obama administration's standard operating procedure. The full-moon
extent of the Obama world view still survives in his second National Security Strategy which lists
among its national security priorities the need to "be a champion for ... people with disabilities;
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) individuals; displaced persons; and migrant workers".
It is something that looks curiously out of place in a national security document — until
you read the rest of it.
Obama:
Reallocate Defense Resources to Foreign Aid. President Obama says the United States
should reallocate defense resources to foreign aid efforts. He also added that most Americans
misunderstand how much of the federal budget goes to diplomacy.
Rice:
Climate Change, Gay Rights Part of National Security Strategy. Speaking at the
Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., on Friday [2/6/2015], White House National Security Advisor Susan
Rice described the terrorist threat from radical Islam as "violent extremism" and said part of President
Barack Obama's national security strategy is fighting "the very real threat of climate change" and promoting
gay rights. Rice's remarks followed the release on Friday of Obama's 2015 National Security Strategy,
which updates a similar document released by the White House in 2010.
White
House threat assessment: Climate change as dangerous as terrororism. President Obama's
new national-security strategy ranks combating climate change as a priority alongside more
traditional threats such as terrorism, biological emergencies and nuclear weapons in the hands of
rogue states. The White House released an outline Friday of Mr. Obama's updated national-security
strategy, the administration's first revision in five years. Along with confronting terrorist
groups such as the Islamic State and working to reverse automatic budget cuts for national defense,
the administration cited climate change as a top priority.
Is
Obama Trying to Kill President Bush? It's still unclear whether there is any Gitmo
terrorist that Obama will not free. Outgoing Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has said that the
White House pressured him to free more Gitmo terrorists faster. White House reports suggested that
Obama fired Hagel because he had been moving too slowly on freeing terrorists, making him guilty of
thwarting Obama's plot to close Gitmo. That would make Hagel the first Secretary of Defense
to be fired for failing to undermine national security.
Red
China is Rapidly Approaching Military Superiority Over U.S.. A senior weapons
developer tells Congress that Beijing's massive defense buildup, emphasizing precision-guided and
other advanced weapons, has placed the U.S. and its shrinking military at serious risk.
Air
Force Vet Rep. Martha McSally Urges Obama to Fund A-10 Warthogs. Rep. Martha McSally
(R., Ariz.) flew A-10 Warthogs in Iraq and Afghanistan and is now fighting to make sure the Pentagon
does not scrap them from the budget. In a letter to President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel, McSally wrote that the decision to retire the A-10 would "put American lives at risk."
2
star's 'treason' comments spark call for an investigation. A prominent lawmaker is
calling for an investigation of a major general's reported comments blasting officers as treasonous
if they work with Congress against Air Force plans to retire the A-10. Maj. Gen. James Post, vice
commander of Air Combat Command, reportedly told officers at a recent meeting of the Tactics Review Board
at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, that they were not to speak with Congress about the service's attempt to
retire the attack jet. "Anyone who is passing information to Congress about A-10 capabilities is
committing treason," Post is quoted by former airman and blogger Tony Carr as saying.
Legendary
A-10 'Warthog' sends ISIS fleeing even as it faces Pentagon cuts. With a roaring
engine, 30-mm. cannon and nose painted like a toothsome, snarling beast, the A-10 Thunderbolt sends
ISIS fighters scattering like cockroaches on the Iraqi desert plains, but the legendary fighter
plane pilots call the "Warthog" may be fighting for its own life. The venerable plane, first
built for destroying Soviet tanks, has been on the chopping block since the sequester of 2011
mandated steep cuts in the Pentagon budget.
A-10
Warthog ISIS-Killer Axed by Uber-Competent Commander-In-Chief. The venerable A-10
Warthog, designed to stop Soviet tanks, and the perfect weapon to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic
State, as President Obama promised, faces a budgetary chopping block. [...] Dubbed the "Warthog"
because of its decidedly un-sleek profile, the A-10 has been found to be useful in another capacity
in Iraq — attacking IS forces that don't want to be on the business end of the Warthog's
30 mm cannon as it flies low and slow over the battlefield. As Iraqi News reported last week
after an A-10 sortie against IS forces near Mosul: "The aircraft sparked panic in the ranks of
ISIS and bombing its elements in spaces close to the ground."
An American
Hero... and Obama. I walked out of the movie American Sniper with a heavy
heart. The senseless murder of Chris Kyle at the hands of a fellow veteran is a tragedy. But it is
also appalling that the Obama administration chose to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in a war that Kyle
helped to win. Obama's disdain for our veterans who have given life and limb and heart and soul to protect
their country and its freedoms has been apparent for years. His assault on the military would be horrible
at any time, but in the midst of war, it is criminal.
Army
recruitment office told to remove 'God and Country' poster. A poster with the message
"On a mission for both God and Country" on display outside a recruiting station in Phoenix was
removed Friday morning after it was brought to the attention of the the Army Recruiting Command.
The poster features a Special Forces patch and Ranger, Airborne, and Special Forces tabs with a
"stock image" the command makes available for local recruiters to use, "but the text was changed by
the local recruiting personnel," and not cleared by command headquarters, spokesman Brian Lepleytold
the Army Times on Friday [1/16/2015].
U.S.
Military Not Taught Ideology of Islamic Jihad, 'Our Nation Is In Great Peril,' Says CSP. Center for
Security Policy (CSP) official Tommy Waller, who fought against Islamic jihadists "on their turf" in Afghanistan
and elsewhere, said his military training did not include instruction in the ideology of the enemy, a deliberate
omission that puts America in "great peril."
Federal
Regs Making it Difficult for Members of Military to Borrow Money. Ever since the
creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, proponents of robust economic growth
and sensible regulation have been trying to rein it in. The legislation that created the
Bureau — which was a provision of Dodd-Frank — funded the CFPB via the Federal
Reserve. The aim of doing so was precisely to insulate the CFPB from the power of the Congressional
purse, something that sets it apart from every other executive branch agency. It is not mere
rhetoric when Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee,
called the CFPB "the single most unaccountable agency in the history of America."
Pentagon
to seek 20% cut for war budget: source. The Pentagon is expected to seek $51 billion
in overseas war funding for fiscal 2016, about 20 percent less than the $64 million approved by
Congress the previous year and the lowest budget proposal since 9/11, according to military
officials and congressional aides.
A Christian president would never allow this. The
Army disciplines a chaplain for mentioning God. If you are going to have a Chaplain in
the Army teach a suicide prevention class, how in the world don't you expect for him to mention God?
That is what he does and it is how he views the world. The flyer he gave out obviously was from his
point of view and said it was just one option for handling suicide. If this had been another faith...
oh say, Islam, there would have been no problem. But an atheist just could not tolerate the mention
of a Christian God. Not only militaries, but entire civilizations fall into the dust of history
over such selective constrictions and admonitions.
Obama
Rolls Dice With American Lives Over GITMO Releases. Of the 779 detainees ever held at
Gitmo, almost 650 detainees have been released. U.S. intelligence authorities report that nearly 1 in 3
are confirmed or suspected of having returned to terrorism. Ex-Gitmo prisoners have become leaders of Al Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Ansar Al-Sharia in Libya. One became a
suicide bomber in Iraq. They've killed Americans or our allies in each place, most notably in Benghazi.
What
Does the Military Think of Obama? Not Much. You just knew that our first hard-Leftist
commander in chief would muck about with the military as much as possible. And the changes appear
to be having the desired effect on the folks who collect their paychecks from Washington.
Poll:
Obama's Support Among Military Craters. Support for President Obama among members of
the military has fallen drastically in recent years, according to the results of a poll published by
the Military Times. A survey of 2,300 active-duty service members showed that only
15 percent of troops polled in 2014 said they approve of the job Obama is doing as
commander in chief. That is down from 2009's paltry 35 percent approval rating.
President's budget grounds
eight C-17s at Joint Base Charleston. One of the four C-17 flying units assigned to Joint
Base Charleston is being grounded, along with another in Washington state, the Air Force announced.
The decision was based on the President Barack Obama's defense budget for fiscal year 2015, according to
a statement from the Air Mobility Command.
Air
Force secretary supports lifting transgender ban. Now that the U.S. military has
opened more jobs to women and allowed gay men and lesbians to serve openly, Air Force Secretary
Deborah Lee James says the ban on transgender troops is likely to be reassessed and should be lifted.
"Times change," she told Capital Download, saying the policy "is likely to come under review in the next year
or so." Asked whether dropping the ban would affect military readiness, she replied: "From my
point of view, anyone who is capable of accomplishing the job should be able to serve."
'Torture'
report shows Obama's selective transparency. Senate Democrats' new report on the CIA's
secret detention and enhanced interrogation program outlines several highly disturbing allegations —
both about the nature of the harsh techniques used by U.S. officials and the agency misleading both Congress and
the White House. To the extent that national security permits, voters have a right to know what is being
done in their name, especially if it is improper. That's part of government transparency. But there
seems to be incongruity and even political opportunism in President Obama's selective commitment to disclosing
the inner workings of the federal government to its employer, the public.
Leaked
Docs: USA Vulnerable to Criminals, Terrorists Entering Without Scrutiny After Obama Exec Amnesty. Under the
executive amnesty immigration action from President Barack Obama, internal administration documents show the administration
is considering allowing terrorists, transnational criminals, and anyone else who wants to enter or stay inside the United
States to not even answer if they've ever been connected with a crime. The internal Obama administration documents,
obtained by Breitbart News through a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source, include a draft application for illegal
immigrants seeking to stay in the country and future prospective immigrants seeking to the enter the country.
Pentagon
insider says Hagel 'couldn't hold his nose anymore' backing Obama's policies. A senior
U.S. Army officer who works closely with high-ranking staff in the office of the Secretary of
Defense told MailOnline on Wednesday that outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is 'relieved' to be
leaving the Pentagon. At a coffee shop a half-mile from the Pentagon, the officer said Hagel
complained regularly about having to publicly defend President Barack Obama's military policies and
priorities, a job requirement he's eager to leave behind. He described Hagel as 'a good guy who
ultimately looked in the mirror one day and realized he couldn't hold his nose anymore.'
Obama
is Failing our Military. Amid jumbled half-hearted pledges to recast the way America
is perceived in the world and fiery speeches that proclaim the limits of American power while
cutting the defense budget, Obama is failing our military and is endangering our national security.
And nothing illustrates this schizophrenic agenda better than the U.S. military's silent deployment
across the entire African continent without any sort of public debate about our role there and the
costs associated with it.
America's
Recessional: President Obama's Legacy. Hagel was a leading critic of the war in Iraq,
after he voted to fully entangle the U.S. in Iraq's endless tribal conflicts. As president, Mr.
Obama surely knew that Hagel could serve as a kennel-fed "Republican" and a heat shield, presiding
over the decline in U.S. military strength and purpose.
Imagine a World Without America? Obama
Can. On the domestic, economic, military, and foreign policy fronts, Obama is
energetically and probably irretrievably weakening the country he has sworn to defend, with
surprisingly little concerted opposition, or even awareness, from many politicians or from the
still-infatuated members of his constituency.
Pentagon
prepares for more detainee releases from Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon is preparing to
transfer more detainees from Guantanamo Bay in coming weeks despite continued Republican opposition,
according to defense and congressional officials. The Wall Street Journal reports that, after five
detainees were transferred last week, there will be another round in December, but defense officials
refused to disclose further information on their numbers or nationalities.
What Hagel's exit means.
Whether he was fired or voluntarily resigned, Chuck Hagel's decision signified only one thing:
Barack Obama no longer enjoys the confidence of the American military establishment. Basically,
Sergeant Hagel resigned because his generals either would not or could not.
Down
the Road: Amnesty For Gitmo Detainees. [I]f you think granting de facto amnesty to
millions of illegal aliens was a reach, wait till you see what he might do about Guantanamo. As is
well known, Obama promised on Day One of his presidency to close Gitmo within a year. But then
reality intruded, plus congressional legislation, when Democrats still controlled both houses,
blocking him from bringing Gitmo detainees to the U.S. I'm guessing Obama remains determined to
close Gitmo, and the one executive action he could take to accomplish this is simply to declare an
amnesty for all of the remaining residents of Gitmo, and releasing them. If he does this in his
last week in office, what could Republicans do? Impeach him?
Why
Did President Obama Appoint Chuck Hagel In The First Place? First, notwithstanding
Hagel's prior management experience in the private sector, the USO and the Veteran's Administration,
it is clear that what the administration really wanted was a Republican who would preside over
declining defense spending to provide political cover. [...] Second, while it is probably true that
new leadership is necessary in the fight against ISIL, the problem seems to be less with the
Pentagon's civilian head but with the commander-in-chief and his close advisors.
Miklaszewski's
'Damning' Description of Obama Admin Micromanagement of Pentagon. [Jim Miklaszewski
and Joe Scarborough] were characterizing Miklaszewski's description of the Obama administration's
"micromanagement" of the Department of Defense in which communication flows only in one direction:
from the White House to the Pentagon.
The
Real Reason Hagel Resigned As Defense Secretary. In The New York Times,
anonymous administration officials said that Hagel left because the mission changed. That's true.
He was hired to slash the budget, downsize the Army, and be loyal. In that, he was successful. But
that mission wasn't enough. The entire hollow consensus of Hagel, Obama, and the anti-surge stewards
has been put to the test by Putin and ISIS and it has failed.
Former
Special Forces Commander to Hagel: Don't Wait for a Book Deal — Tell the Truth
Now. The American people deserve and have a right to hear the truth about the damage
the President's policies have inflicted on the military. We can't wait any longer to restore the
readiness of our military. Our national security depends upon it. The reluctance of the current
Joint Chiefs of Staff to resist damaging policies is having a devastating impact on military
readiness and consequently national security. Programmed cuts in the military budget as well as cuts
resulting from sequestration are reducing America's readiness to a dangerously low level. From
personnel to major weapons systems, military leaders and defense analysts alike agree we are placing
our national security on a dangerous footing. It's time for senior military leaders to go public
with their objections even if it results in their resignation or termination.
As
Obama Prepares Amnesty, Feds Leave Border Patrol Agents Without Enough Rifles. As
President Obama prepares to announce his plans to essentially legalize five million illegal
immigrants from the White House Thursday night, Border Patrol agents working against dangerous
criminal aliens are being stripped of their weapons and forced to share rifles, leaving them unarmed
and vulnerable.
Border
Patrol stripping agents of their rifles. The News 4 Tucson Investigators have
uncovered that some U.S. Border Patrol agents have lost a key part of their arsenal. And that has
agents who patrol along the border here, extremely worried. We learned that U.S. Customs and
Border Protection's Offices of Border Patrol and Training and Development are inspecting the quality
of agents' M4 carbines throughout Border Patrol sectors nationwide. But agents tell us, some of
those M4s have not been replaced. And, we've learned, agents are required to share rifles amongst
each other.
Our
Military is the Most Important Organization on Earth. While the rest of the federal
government is expanding faster than Obama's ego, our military is at the smallest level since before
America's entry into WWII. Our Navy is also the smallest it's been since WWI, but when Mitt Romney
pointed this out during his final debate with Obama in the 2012 race, the President quipped, "Well,
governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets." Well, Mr. President, you were right about the
horses, but we actually have three times as many bayonets as we did during WWI. But since when has
Obama let facts get in the way of an argument?
Like
LBJ, but worse. Not since LBJ's operation of the Vietnam War has the executive branch
so botched management of a war.
Why
Are the Senate Races Close? For six years the Democratic majority in the Senate has
formed a solid bloc behind a president who betrayed every American soldier who died in Iraq by
deliberately losing the war and failing to secure the peace. Obama's anti-military, anti-American
zeal has brought this country to its knees internationally. His cowardice when it comes to the use
of force has created a terrorist threat greater than any America has faced since the height of the
Cold War. With no dissent from the Democratic majority in the Senate.
Team
of Bumblers? According to multiple sources, behind the scenes a few things went badly
awry in the launch of Obama's new [ISIS] policy. First, the Pentagon was surprised by the
president's timing, according to a senior defense official. "We didn't know it was going to be in
the speech," he said, referring to Obama's Sept. 10 address to the nation. Second, the White House
neglected to give Pentagon lawyers a chance to revise and approve the proposed legislative language
before it went to the Hill, which is considered standard practice.
Taking back
America. With its many scandals, including the Benghazi tragedy, the perverse
"progressive" ideology of the Obama administration, combined with its deceitful and manipulative
methods, has corrupted normally nonpartisan government agencies. More importantly, it has infected
the civilian and military leadership who lead their agencies. The core of the corruption is an
attitude that flaunts the Constitution and takes the position that the president can do anything he
wants with a pen and a phone that promotes an agenda, regardless of its impact on the country's
national security.
Obama:
They Still Don't Get Who He is. Think of Obama as a cyborg programmed by socialist/progressives,
unfeeling, relentless and laser focused on his mission to transform America as founded and dethrone her.
And nothing, I repeat, nothing, including American lives, will deter this machine from fulfilling its mission.
Consequently, Obama's programming prohibits any possibility of him banning flights from the Ebola hot zone, no
matter how many Americans are infected. [...] Military experts say it is preposterous for Obama to deploy our
troops (4000) to the Ebola hot zone to do a job for which they are not qualified. Our troops are not
social workers or construction workers. Obama does not care.
The
Pentagon's war on the global climate. The Pentagon's "2014 Climate Change Adaptation
Roadmap," published last week, demonstrates how thoroughly and deeply liberal "climate change"
ideology is being embedded in our military establishment. To undo the damage will require a
determined effort by our next president. We've already seen how the climate change ideology has
wasted scarce defense dollars, such as Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus' decision to spend $26 a
gallon for 450,000 gallons of biofuel — about $11.7 million — when $5 a gallon
diesel fuel would have met the same need. That, of course, came at a time when the Navy fleet was
shrinking to the smallest size since the end of World War I.
Pelosi:
Let transgender troops serve openly. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
supports the elimination of rules that ban transgender people from openly serving in the military,
her office told the Washington Blade. "Leader Pelosi believes there is no place for
discrimination in the U.S. Armed Forces, including on the basis of gender identity,"
spokesperson Drew Hammill told the Blade.
Keywords: Petri Dish, guinea pigs, experiments on humans. General:
US Troops Who Contract Ebola Will Be Quarantined in Liberia. If any American soldiers
in Liberia contract the deadly Ebola virus, they will be quarantined, stabilized, and evacuated to a
medical facility for treatment, said the Ebola mission commander, adding that the U.S. military
hospitals that will admit potentially infected troops have not yet been identified.
Odierno:
'Military risk is accumulating exponentially'. Bad assumptions about future conflicts
and the amount of U.S. military power needed to manage them have "exponentially" increased the
military risk the United States faces, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said Tuesday
[10/14/2014]. Sudden crises ranging from the collapse of the Iraqi military to Russian aggression
in Ukraine to a record Ebola outbreak in West Africa — as well as operations elsewhere —
have the Army scrambling on six continents.
Will
Obama Only Fight Carbon-Neutral Wars? Has anyone at the Pentagon determined the carbon
footprint of our war on IS? Because if a Defense Dept. global warming report is right, we could be
doing more harm than good to our national security. The 20-page report — the cover of
which includes a cute picture of baby sea turtles along with tanks and battleships — says
climate change "poses immediate risks to U.S. national security." In his forward, Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel says it's a "threat multiplier" that, among other things, will increase the
risk of terrorism. (Presumably because heat leads to terrorism.)
Obama
Is Risking a U.S. Ebola Outbreak for His Own Ambitions. Nearly 60 percent of Americans
want the government to shut down flights to the U.S. from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, sources
of the Ebola virus. Why isn't the White House playing ball? One theory: because once again,
President Barack Obama is serving his legacy at the expense of the country. Six years ago he put
his legacy-building healthcare legislation ahead of the need to create jobs and reboot our fragile
economy. Today, his ambition to be a hero to Africa is undermining common sense approaches to
protecting Americans from the Ebola virus.
Obama's
airstrikes, lackluster leadership [is] an embarrassment. Instead of striking fear in
the heart of the enemy, we're showing ISIS and the rest of the world that the best we can do under this
president's lackluster leadership is half-hearted. ISIS is well aware as it continues its rampage of
killing and beheading. At some point, like it or not, we'll be forced to respond more decisively.
Pentagon
backlash: Why are top military leaders attacking Obama's foreign policy? On Tuesday
[10/14/2014], Gen. Ray Odierno, the US Army Chief of Staff, publicly questioned President Obama's
plan to reduce the size of America's ground-combat forces, joining a growing chorus of current and
former administration officials speaking out against Obama's foreign policy. Speaking at a news
conference during the annual meeting of the Association of the U.S. Army, Odierno cited new threats
in the world that forestall the shrinking of the Army, as Obama has repeatedly called for.
Top
General Worries U.S. Army Getting Too Small. The Army's top general said Monday that
an increase in threats around the world requires that the U.S. rethink plans to cut the size of the
American military's ground force. The Army agreed — reluctantly — to cut
the size of its force to 490,000 under the budget reductions originally approved in 2011. But as a
result of subsequent White House-Congress spending battles and military budget reviews, Pentagon
leaders said the Army has had to make plans to shrink even further, to 450,000 or even 420,000.
The
Obama Doctrine: Undermine the Military, Coddle Enemies and Distance Friends. Nothing
saps the morale of an army more than knowing that its government doesn't have its back. This case,
as well as the Tahmooressi case, demonstrates with utmost clarity that the Obama administration at
best, doesn't [care] about its soldiers. A more cynical approach would suggest that the administration
is actually working to undermine the morale of its troops.
Obama is intentionally wasting military manpower. Hagel:
Pentagon launching climate roadmap. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled a climate
change roadmap on Monday, urging his international counterparts to remain "clear-eyed" about the
"security threats" presented by global warming. Speaking at a meeting of defense ministers in
Peru, Hagel announced the new Pentagon report, which is set to be released later on Monday [10/13/2014]
and details the Defense Department's plan to fight climate change.
Up in smoke?
There's a new battle brewing over smoking in the military. Congress and the Defense Department are
mulling over a potential ban on selling tobacco products — cigarettes, cigars and chewing
tobacco — on military bases and ships in an effort to curb high smoking rates, but
critics argue the move would be unfair to service members who already are making significant sacrifices.
The Editor says...
Brilliant. Obama is willing to send soldiers to war against the most ruthless people in the world,
and sends them off to help clean up the Ebola mess in Africa, but doesn't want them to buy cigarettes.
After all, cigarettes might make you sick!
Obama's
Watch: 90% Of 20K Total U.S. Warriors Wounded In Afghanistan War. At least 17,316 American soldiers have been wounded in the
Afghanistan war theater since Obama was inaugurated for his first term, according to a count maintained by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
Overall, according to the Pentagon, 20,017 United State troops have been wounded in action (WIA) since Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) began
13 years ago today.
A Naval Disaster
in the Making. The U.S. Navy's latest shipbuilding plan would see its attack submarine
fleet diminish from 55 to 41 boats in the next decade and a half. That decision, confirmed in
August, was eclipsed by the advance of ISIL, war in Gaza, and sedition in Ukraine. But the Navy's
announcement — the single-largest strategic consequence of this administration's defense
cuts — has the most far-reaching ramifications of the summer's events.
For
the first time, Russia has more deployed nuclear warheads than U.S.. For the first
time, Russia, which is in the midst of a major strategic nuclear modernization, has more deployed
nuclear warheads than the United States, according to the latest numbers released by the State
Department. Russia now has 1,643 warheads deployed on intercontinental ballistic missiles,
submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers. The United States has 1,642, said
the fact sheet released Wednesday [10/1/2014].
President's
Program to Recruit Illegal Immigrants for Military will 'Directly Displace' U.S. Servicemembers. U.S. Sen. Jeff
Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released a statement today concerning the President's new
effort to recruit illegal immigrants and visa overstays into the U.S. military. Sessions also detailed the actions the
President should be taking, instead of pursuing an illegal executive amnesty.
Treason: Obama's
Loose Lips. Ever since he became President Barack Obama has worked to weaken America's
posture toward our adversaries. Some of these have been obvious: eviscerating American armed forces,
betraying ally relationships built up over decades, and empowering foes such as Iran and the Muslim
Brotherhood. Others have flown under the radar screen but, like the diminishing fleet of stealth
fighters in the Air Force, can nevertheless be devastating. These deliberate steps began early.
Within a few months of Barack Obama's inauguration, his administration made public detailed interrogation
memos describing the techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency to gather information from
terrorists. Those methods were among the Bush administration's most closely guarded secrets.
Piers
Morgan Writes Hit Piece On President Obama. While the content is vicious, angry and
sure to tickle conservative journalists and pols, the writing is colorful, even entertaining. "A
slapdash Secret Service detail isn't what's wrong with the White House — the real scandal
is a President who is so complacent about protecting Americans," the headline blares. Piers
predicts that now that President Obama went on "60 Minutes" and distanced himself from U.S. national
intelligence agencies on the rapid spread of ISIS, he's guaranteed himself leaks to the media for
the remainder of his presidency.
Desperately
Seeking a Weaker United States. While the U.S. cuts its defense spending, Russia and
China have been increasing theirs. Moreover, while nuclear weapons can be found in nations like
North Korea, a self-declared enemy of the U.S. Iran is intent on creating its own nuclear
capability, the U.S. has not only reduced its nuclear arsenal (Obama wants no arsenal) and has
entered into negotiations that no observer believes will result in any cessation of Iran's
intentions. [...] This has all happened while Obama has been President. He has already announced
that the U.S. will not put "boots on the ground" in Iraq and will leave Afghanistan next year.
Telling the enemy what you intend to do militarily is a profoundly stupid thing to do.
US Homeland Security moves to
tackle climate change risks. Protecting the infrastructure of American cities from the effects of climate change is rising on
the agenda of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a top agency official.
So
have they found all the terrorists? Homeland Security is now helping to protect communities from the
effects of climate change. They're tasked with protecting the United States from
terrorists and keeping America's biggest cities safe, but Homeland Security's brief appears to be
widening to include more global issues like climate change. The department that was created by
President Bush in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks says that the role of the organization
is 'to assist in the wake of disasters, whether they be man-made or natural'. However, claims of
'mission-creep' are now being hurled at the department which is attempting to redefine its role as
one of emergency management than of protection and security against enemies of the state.
Military
to allow undocumented immigrants to serve. A small number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. will have an opportunity to
join the military for the first time in decades under a new Department of Defense policy unveiled Thursday [9/25/2014]. The new
rules will expand an existing program allowing recruiters to target foreign nationals with high-demand skills, mostly rare foreign
language expertise or specialized health care training. For the first time, the program — known as Military Accessions
in the National Interest, or MAVNI — will be open to immigrants without a proper visa if they came to the U.S. with their
parents before age 16. More specifically, they must be approved under a 2012 Obama administration policy known as Deferred
Action for Child Arrivals, or DACA.
How do we know they are loyal only to this country, if they have abandoned their own? Obama
Enacts Executive Action to Allow Some DREAMers to Serve in Military. On the day Attorney General Eric Holder announced his
resignation, President Barack Obama enacted an executive action on Thursday to allow certain DREAMers to serve in the military and be put
on an expedited path to citizenship. Obama vowed to hold off on broad executive amnesty that would also potentially grant temporary
work permits to millions of illegal immigrants until after the midterm elections to help Senate Democrats retain the Senate. According
to the Military Times, this executive action will expand MAVNI (Military Accessions in the National Interest) "to target foreign nationals
with high-demand skills, mostly rare foreign language expertise, or specialized health care training."
Navy
used 47 Tomahawks last night, 47% of planned 2015 purchases. Last night's [9/22/2014] air strikes against ISIS in
Syria used up 47 Tomahawk missiles. The Tomahawk is an extremely effective weapon, capable of delivering its ordnance
precisely, without risking a pilot's life. But the defense cuts of the Obama administration call for procuring only
one hundred Tomahawks next year.
And apparently Obama is selling off the remaining stock: Britain
buys 20 Tomahawk missiles ready to strike IS today. Britain has bought 20 Tomahawk missiles from the US in
preparation for its bombing campaign against Islamic State. Costing £1million each, they are fired from
submarines and can be computer-programmed to turn corners.
Days later... Defense
Leaders Warn of Tomahawk Missile Shortage. As the United States steps up its battle
against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), defense leaders on Capitol Hill are
raising concerns about a looming shortage in the Tomahawk missile supply, a key offensive weapon
that the Navy has deployed against militant strongholds in Syria and elsewhere. The U.S. Navy's
current reliance on the Tomahawk, known as "the world's most advanced cruise missile," comes just
months after the Obama administration attempted to significantly cut funding for the weapon and then
eliminate it completely it in 2016, a move that drew heavy criticism from defense experts and
lawmakers.
Would
You Follow President Obama Into Battle? There is good reason to believe that President
Barack Obama will not conduct an effective battle against the Islamic State. As Townhall's Katie
Pavlich explains, several generals have stated that his current plan will not accomplish his stated
goal, and he has consistently rejected sound military advice regarding Iraq and Afghanistan. He and
his subordinates obfuscate the nature of the enemy and the battle, and are not indicating that they are
serious about defeating the Islamic State. It is becoming clearer each day that Obama wants to
micro-manage and restrict the battle.
Saving Private Obama. ISIS insolence
may cause the president to revisit his command decision before the end. But it puts the armed forces in an age old bind.
What should they do when ordered to act against their better judgment? For most of recorded military history subordinates have
struggled with this exact situation; serving under commanders whom they were bound to obey yet sworn to serve.
Morale: The U.S. Navy Is Fading Away. The
U.S. Navy recently ran an opinion survey which confirmed that morale was low and getting worse, with a growing number of experienced
sailors eager to get out of the navy. The most common gripe was the length of time spent at sea and the belief that those long
voyages to distant waters were going to get longer. There was also growing disillusionment with navy leadership. Sailors
saw senior officers more concerned with political correctness and "zero tolerance" than with legitimate complaints of sailors and
junior officers.
Air Force Members Can Now Omit 'So Help
Me God' from Oath. The U.S. Air Force announced a significant change to its policy for reciting oaths Wednesday [9/17/2014].
Starting now, members and officers can choose to omit the words "so help me God" when delivering enlistment and officer appointment oaths.
Military
gets 'sensitive' under Obama. The military is growing more "sensitive" under the Obama administration, Pentagon
observers say, by relaxing long-standing restrictions on soldiers' religious and personal liberties. The efforts by the
Defense Department to adapt to cultural change go beyond the moves to end the controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and
allow women in combat. In recent weeks, the Pentagon has backed off controversial hairstyle regulations that critics said
discriminated against black women and made the phrase "so help me [G]od" optional in the oath for airmen. Earlier this year,
the military loosened its rules for soldiers who want to wear turbans or grow religious beards and provided exemptions for having
tattoos and piercings. "We want to make sure we're not offending people," a DOD official told The Hill.
Our
Troops Have Work To Do Before Acting As Red Cross. The president declares that ground troops are a non-option
against the Islamic State, then orders 3,000 troops to Africa as a surrogate Red Cross. The U.S. military should be
too busy for that.
Isn't this what the Peace Corps is for? Obama Orders Boots on the Ground!
We're at war. We're putting boots on the ground. We're not waiting around for the host nation's
government to get its affairs in order, or for a regional coalition to commit first. [...] Of
course, the enemy the president has boldly and unhesitatingly sent our troops to fight is the Ebola
virus. Aren't there other parts of the U.S government suited to carry on this fight?
President Alfred E. Neuman.
How many people from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea will arrive today on aircraft, ships and
across our open borders by car and on foot? Nobody knows. How many will, like the man who lies at
death's door in a Dallas hospital, be infected with the disease? Again, nobody knows, least of all our government.
[...] Let's be precise: no U.S. troops should be sent and those already there should be ordered back. The
good they can do is very little, and the risk to them is too enormous to require any soldier to take.
NIH
Official Dismisses Rand Paul's Concerns Of Ebola Threat To US Troops. On Sunday, Dr.
Anthony Fauci of the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Institutes and the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), dismissed Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) concerns that U.S. troops being sent to West African
nations with Ebola outbreaks could be in danger of contracting the disease. On CBS's Face the
Nation [10/5/2014], Fauci was asked about Paul's comments last week in which he expressed
concerns about Ebola spreading on ships like the "diarrhea viruses" that have ravaged cruise ships.
Government
Has Failed In Its Job To Protect Americans From Ebola. The problem we face is not just
one African who entered our country and then died from Ebola. It's a national health problem that
has made our health care personnel carriers of a fatal African disease endangering Americans who
never went to Africa. Obama sent thousands of U.S. troops to Liberia, a country stricken with
Ebola. He ignores the danger to our American troops and also to other Americans when these
servicemen and women return home. The safety of the American people is less important to him
than posing as a world citizen.
About
500 Fort Hood troops West Africa-bound. The U.S. Army is deploying about 500 Fort Hood soldiers to Liberia to
back U.S. efforts in the fight against the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
The Editor says...
Think about this action for a moment. If it were Obama's goal to intentionally introduce Ebola into the U.S. and spread it around,
what would he do differently? He is taking 500 Americans (in this case, randomly selected from the 50 states) and sending them to Africa, exposing
them to the Ebola virus. Eventually those 500 people will return home (we hope), and eventually they will return to their home towns. When
the soldiers finish their 21-day isolation period, they are considered free of the disease. But how do we know 21 days is enough, and how will
we know the apparently healthy soldiers are not asymptomatic carriers?
Are we Being Betrayed
from Within by an Islamist in the White House? Obama is training 70,000 Taliban in
American military methods, in Afghanistan. Obama released the five most dangerous Taliban from
Gitmo in exchange for an away-without-leave, Islamist traitor. He helped only Muslims in this deal,
and harmed America to boot. Obama has fostered an environment in the Mid-East that has nurtured
the birth of the Islamic State. Obama released their Caliph Ibrahim from US custody in Camp Bucca,
Iraq, back in the spring of 2009, when he went by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Obama continues only to
stalemate IS. He will not kill the cancer while it is still easily done. An Islamist president
would not wish to harm or restrain IS more than politically necessary. Obama has sent Secretary
of State Chuck Hagel to Qatar with an $11 billion-dollar weapons deal. Qatar provides arms to
Hamas. Obama has held up arms shipments to Israel during their war with Hamas. He has made
statements condemning Israel. He sympathizes with Hamas. Obama is cutting the US army to pre-WWII
levels and the navy to pre-WWI levels. He has taken our nuclear missile defense from 5,500 to 1,550
without getting concessions from the Chinese or Russians.
PC
military? Army worried too many white men lead combat units. U.S. Army sociologists are worried that a lack
of black officers leading its combat troops will have detrimental effect on minorities and lead to fewer black officers in
top leadership posts. "The issue exists. The leadership is aware of it," Brig. Gen. Ronald Lewis told USA Today
on Thursday [9/11/2014]. "The leadership does have an action plan in place. And it's complicated."
The Editor says...
The leadership of the Army, headed by Barack H. Obama, is apparently more concerned about finding the blackest
available officers instead of looking for the best officers, regardless of color.
Why
Must The Safety Of Americans Depend on Others? President Barack Obama has struggled to sound convincing
in recent days as he addressed the challenge of ISIS — or "ISIL," his preferred acronym for the so-called Islamic
State. Obama's problem goes beyond gaffes about his lack of strategy. The fundamental issue is that he is ambivalent
about his role in protecting Americans at home and abroad, and has made the safety of American citizens dependent on
other nations' cooperation.
Remilitarize the World Police. America's
deterrent — our ability to discourage and respond to aggression — is gone. It was thrown away.
First, President Obama cut defense massively, constraining the Pentagon and hollowing out the force. He was helped not only
by Democrats in Congress but also by Republicans, who agreed to the budget sequester in 2011. Democrats want more money for
social programs; Republicans want to cut the deficit. They are both guilty of short-term thinking. The effects of defense
cuts are felt not only in one budget. They are felt over time — in weapons not developed or devised, forces not raised,
troops not adequately trained and equipped. The government cashes out a peace dividend just once. Later, we all pay.
U.S.
military dependence on Russian rocket engines raises security concerns. The rising
tensions with Russia over its aggression in Ukraine is creating national security concerns inside
the Pentagon, where the military's largest satellite program is reliant on a rocket engine produced
by Moscow. The Air Force said it has begun looking for alternatives to the RD-180 rocket engines
for its Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program — the fourth largest line item in the
U.S. defense budget — now that Russia has threatened to cut off the technology in its
tit-for-tat struggle with the U.S.
The
New World Disorder. In just the last five or six years the world has been
fundamentally transformed. Instead of the old accustomed Western-inspired postwar global order,
crafted and ensured by the United States and its European and Japanese partners, there is now mostly
chaos, from Ukraine to Syria to the South China Sea. [...] The general cause of the unrest is that,
fairly or not, the world senses that the United States is tired after its recent interventions,
cutting back its defenses, and all but financially insolvent. We might scoff at Neanderthal notions
like a loss of deterrence inviting aggression, but Neanderthals do not.
Obama's Willful
Blindness. [F]acts don't matter to Barack Obama. How do we know facts don't
matter to Barack Obama? Because he avoids them like a plague. Facts are his greatest
enemy. Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen noted something very revealing in this most
transparently un-transparent administration: Obama skips more than half of his daily
intelligence briefings. Imagine a general just ordering his radar turned off, or a captain
switching off his sonar — or a commander-in-chief resting up for a high-dollar campaign event
instead of acting to prevent a (Benghazi) massacre of Americans. All deliberate actions of
willful blindness. If Obama won't care about facts, why not cut the budget for our
intelligence agencies?
The
Pentagon can easily drop its ban on transgender troops, study finds. The Defense Department repealed its
controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning gay people from openly serving in the military three years ago in
September. Some senior officers questioned the decision, fearing it could cost lives, but Pentagon officials said
the repeal has not hurt military readiness or cohesion. Civil rights advocates, including some retired military
officers, are now pressing for another change. The armed forces continue to enforce a ban on transgender military
service, months after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in May that he was open to a review that would lift it.
Zero Dark Shut Up.
Certainly, there is a place for heroic tales of American soldiers and the public must be informed
about some basic things. But Zero Dark Thirty was up for a slew of Oscars while Osama Bin
Laden's body was still cooling, and the film was made with extensive cooperation by the Obama
administration presumably because it was deemed politically helpful. Publicizing the details of
Special Operations Forces to score political points has become an irksome and hazardous habit with
this administration.
National Security Policy
Adrift. Russia has embarked on an accelerated modernization of both its strategic and
conventional forces, while China continues with an unprecedented military expansion of both its
strategic and conventional forces. The Obama Administration's response has been to continue with
the unilateral disarmament of our military forces[.] It will leave us with the smallest Army since
prior to WWII, and the smallest Navy since prior to WWI. Furthermore, our strategic forces have
been allowed to atrophy over the past two decades. Our national leadership deliberately is
jeopardizing our national security.
Obama
lifts ban on Libyans attending flight school, studying nuclear science here. President
Reagan worried about terrorist hijackers using airplanes as weapons way back in 1983. He banned
Libyans from taking flight lessons or nuclear studies in the United States. Now, believe it or not,
President Obama is lifting that ban because, aides say, post-Gaddafi Libya and its relations with the
United States are "normalized." Seriously? We just abandoned our embassy there last
month. [...] This is the same Libya that brought us Lockerbie. The same Libya Hillary Clinton urged
Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama to attack. Citing possible civilian slaughter in the anti-Gaddafi rebellion
of 2009, Obama obeyed.
Intel Chief
Blasts Obama. General Michael Flynn served as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency
from July 2012 until last week. Throughout his tenure he challenged the Obama administration's
hopeful and inaccurate narrative about the war against al Qaeda and jihadists — pushback
that doubtless contributed to his early departure from the agency. Flynn isn't leaving quietly.
Top
US Official: US Less Safe than on 9/10/2001. In a wide ranging and candid Yesterday,
[8/9/2014] interview with Breaking Defense, retiring Defense Intelligence Agency chief Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn rang the alarm bells in an administration that has been trying to downplay the terror
threat since 2009. Flynn, who had a reputation for being "disruptive," says that there are more
terror groups than ever before, they have more members, they hate the United States as much as ever
and they are far better trained and equipped than they used to be.
A
Fire Bell in the Night. Zzzzzz... If I remember correctly, George Will once referred
to a book by Jean-François Revel as "a fire bell in the night." (The phrase comes from Thomas
Jefferson.) Well, something called the National Defense Panel has issued a fire bell in the night.
But I don't think anyone will hear it. Because a) it's a government report and b) it's a government
report that people aren't disposed to hear. No one wanted to hear George W. Bush talk about the
collapse of Social Security: because Social Security hadn't collapsed yet. And no one wants to hear
about the diminished state of our defenses.
The
National Defense Panel Review of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review. The Air Force
now fields the smallest and oldest force of combat aircraft in its history yet needs a global
surveillance and strike force able to rapidly deploy to theaters of operation to deter, defeat, or
punish multiple aggressors simultaneously. As a result of the budget constraints imposed by the 2011
Budget Control Act, the Air Force's Bomber, Fighter and Surveillance forces are programmed to
drawdown to approximately 50% of the current inventory by 2019.
Obama's
Treachery and Republican Silence. Barack Obama deliberately set out to lose the war in
Iraq, and he did. He defied the advice of his joint chiefs of staff to secure America's formidable
military presence and keep 20,000 troops in country, and left Iraq to its own devices and the tender
mercies of Iran. In doing so, he betrayed every American and Iraqi who gave his life to create a
free Iraq and keep it out of the clutches of the terrorists. Iraq is now a war zone dominated by
the terrorist forces of the Islamic State, whose rise Obama's policies fostered.
Barack H. Obama detests the military, and it shows. Obama
on first combat death of an American general in decades: (Silence). This week, Maj.
Gen. Harold Greene became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to die in the Afghan war. He was
assassinated and a dozen others wounded at a training camp near Kabul by a man in an Afghan army uniform,
the first American general to die in a combat zone since the Vietnam War. But Obama had nothing to
say, issued no White House statement. Wednesday during several public events, including a 40-minute
pre-vacation news conference, the commander-in-chief uttered not a single word about the violent death of
one of only about 200 Army generals. Strange behavior from someone who so often pays lip service to
the devotion and sacrifice of U.S. military volunteers and behavior likely to confirm widespread skepticism
of the Democrat's sincerity.
Navy
removes Bibles from guest rooms. There is growing outrage among sailors and religious
liberty advocates over a directive that calls for the removal of Bibles from lodges and hotels run
on U.S. Navy bases. The directive comes after an atheist group filed a formal complaint earlier this
year over the placement of Bibles in the rooms. "The current direction is to remove all religious
material from Navy Lodge guest rooms," read an email to a Navy chaplain from The Navy Exchange Service
Command (NEXCOM).
Update: Navy
reverses course, puts Bibles back in hotels during policy review. Bibles began
disappearing from Navy lodges over the summer after complaints were made by an atheist group, but
that decision has now been reversed while a policy review takes place. The Freedom from Religion
Foundation complained about the religious books earlier in the year, which prompted the Navy
Exchange to have managers put Gideons Bibles in lost-and-found locations.
Navy
tells lodges to put removed Bibles back into rooms. Gideons Bibles are going back into
Navy lodges. The Navy on Thursday [8/14/2014] ordered the Bibles returned to rooms and said it is
reviewing a decision by the Navy Exchange to remove them from its worldwide network of military hotels.
Atheists had cheered a victory after a complaint prompted the exchange to begin moving the Bibles to its
lost-and-found bins this summer, but the Navy said the decision was made without consulting senior leadership.
A
Governor's Dilemma: Illegal Immigrants Divert Resources From State's Own Citizens. On
June 13, the first bus of illegal immigrant minors, aged 12-17, arrived at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
The state of Oklahoma was given no formal notice, and no chance to object. After weeks of bad publicity,
public outrage and political pressure, the Obama administration announced this week that the facility will close
by Friday, Aug. 8. That's good news for the people of Oklahoma and the men and women of Fort Sill, who
will once again have the full use of their military base for the purpose it was designed for: housing and
training soldiers.
The Editor says...
Here's the thing about immigration: If all illegal immigrants were hard-working, English-speaking, disease-free, law-abiding rocket scientists
who had jobs waiting for them in the U.S., we could look the other way. Unfortunately, the situation we face is nothing like that.
If there are any rocket scientists, they probably hope to someday use rockets against Israel, or South Korea, or us.
Lawsuit:
Soldier forced out of Army for serving Chick-fil-A, reading Hannity book. A member of
the U.S. Army Band said he was forced out of the U.S. Army for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on
his personal car, serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at a party and reading books written by conservative
authors like Sean Hannity, a federal lawsuit alleges. Master Sergeant Nathan Sommers, a 25-year
veteran of the military and a decorated soloist in the U.S. Army Band Chorus, claims he was forcibly
retired from the Army due to his religious and conservative political beliefs.
50
Things Barack Obama Has Done Wrong: [#31] George W. Bush quit playing golf in 2003 because he didn't
want the mother of some fallen soldier to see the Commander-in-Chief out playing golf. He also said he thought
playing golf during a war sent the wrong signal to the American people. Through June of 2014, Obama was up to
177 rounds and is on pace to play twice as much in his second term as his first term.
Obama
military downsizing leaves U.S. too weak to counter global threats, panel finds. An independent panel appointed
by the Pentagon and Congress said Thursday [7/31/2014] 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."
Obama
Hands Out Billions To Newly Imported Illegal Aliens as the Army Forces Out 550 Majors.
The Army says it will soon notify 550 majors that they must leave the service by next spring as part
of a budget-driven downsizing of the service. Some of those soldiers will get the bad news while
they are on the front lines in Afghanistan. Gen. John Campbell says notifying troops on the
warfront that they are out of a job is difficult. But he says some could join the National Guard or
the Army Reserve. The Army was criticized when senior leaders recently told nearly 1,200 captains
that they had to leave the service — 48 of them were deployed to Afghanistan.
Comparing
President Obama to Jimmy Carter is an insult to Carter. Most of what Obama has broken can't be
fixed. But he could give the next U.S. president a fighting chance by following Carter's example and doing
something. Reversing the atrophy of American military capabilities would be a start.
Defense
Panel: Obama Administration Defense Strategy 'Dangerously' Underfunded. The Obama
administration's four-year defense strategy lacks funding needed for fulfilling global military
missions and the U.S. military faces "high risk" in the world unless changes are made, according to
a bipartisan report by a congressionally backed panel of defense experts. The report by the
National Defense Panel, led by former Defense Secretary William Perry and retired United States Army
Gen. John Abizaid, criticized the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review for outlining military
responsibilities that cannot be met because of sharp defense funding cuts. The report concluded
that the capabilities called for in the QDR "clearly exceed the budget resources made available to
the department."
Army to
Force Out 550 Majors; Some in Afghanistan. About 550 Army majors, including some
serving in Afghanistan, will soon be told they have to leave the service by next spring as part of a
budget-driven downsizing of the service.
Independent
Panel Says Obama's Military Downsizing Is Dangerous, Puts The US & Our Soldiers At Risk. In their effort to end
two wars while also cutting the budget, the President and his Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have begun the process of shrinking
the military to pre-WWII levels. Cutting down the size of the military has resulted in thousands of soldiers getting
separated from the military, including the infamous occurrence of commanders in Afghanistan learning that once their deployment
is over, their service will "no longer be needed." And now, an independent panel appointed by the Pentagon and approved
by Congress has called the President's action "a serious misstep" that will result in a military that is "too weak for today's
global threats," The Washington Times reports.
Troops
told to refrain from eating, drinking in front of Muslims. Do not eat or drink in
front of Muslims, and learn more about their religion. That's the directive that has gone out to
active duty military personnel at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a
Department of Defense medical and graduate school in Bethesda, Md. The brigade commander sent an
email to military personnel at the facility last month — just before the start of
Ramadan — advising them to show respect to Muslim colleagues.
Things Obama
Just Won't Do. Obama's foreign policy has two goals. First, Obama disdains the use of
American power. Not just military power but diplomatic and international power as well. His policy
is dedicated to eliminating any action that is undertaken because America's interests demand it. His
aim is to reduce America from a superpower to something less. He's succeeding.
Open Borders
or Open Society? Anyone concerned about the survival of the greatest nation on earth
knows that our national sovereignty depends in part on knowing who is coming in to the country,
having defined borders and laws pertaining to immigration enforced. Anyone interested in open
borders and challenging immigration law that sets definitions and restrictions therefore, either
doesn't understand the consequences, or knows [quite] well that the nation will not survive — and
that ideologically-driven person is our nation's enemy.
Pentagon
gives pink slips to thousands of soldiers, including active-duty officers. Defense
Department officials said the reductions are the result of mandatory spending cuts imposed by
sequestration and are part of their larger plan to reduce the number of U.S. soldiers from 520,000
to 450,000. Roughly 2,600 captains and other officers have or will be laid off, with more
expected, Fox News learned Friday [7/11/2014]. The decision to send pink slips to soldiers
overseas on active duty is dangerous and bad for morale, says retired Major Gen. Robert Scales.
U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan: Obama vs Bush. 575 US troops died in
Afghanistan during the Bush presidency. By August 18, 2010, following two troop surges initiated by President Obama, that number
had doubled. Today, over 1500 US troops have died in Afghanistan since President Obama took office — and yet, little in
that war-torn country has changed. These numbers should give us pause. While the Administration has publicly conceded that
there is no military solution in Afghanistan, and claimed that it supports 'Afghan-led reconciliation', its policy on the ground is marked
by a refusal to establish a timetable for full military withdrawal even after misleading Americans into thinking that all US troops would
be out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. We must ask ourselves how many more lives will be sacrificed before the Obama administration
sets a clear end date for America's longest war.
Obama
picks first woman non-pilot to head Air Force in Pacific. Air Force Lt. Gen. Lori J.
Robinson was nominated by the president for a fourth star and to be commanding general of the
military branch's Pacific operations. If confirmed, she will be the first four-star female
commander of combat forces, the Pentagon announced. But many wonder if her lack of experience
in the air puts US forces on a highway to the danger zone.
General
Calls Border Crisis An Existential Threat. The general in charge of U.S. Southern
Command says America's porous southern border poses as much a threat as any foreign power, with
gangs and terrorist groups hiding among the tidal wave of illegals. If Marine Corps Gen. John
Kelly, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, keeps warning about the crisis at our southern
border, he may soon join the long list of generals and admirals sacked by this administration as it
decimates the military.
Our
Roost, Obama's Chickens. We were told that only Obama-haters at home had catalogued the president's
apologies abroad, his weird multicultural bowing to authoritarians, his ahistorical speeches about mythical Islamic
achievements, his surreal euphemisms for radical Islam, terrorism, and jihadism, his shrill insistence about civilian
trials for terrorists and closing Guantanamo, or the radical cutbacks at the Pentagon, coupled with the vast increase in
entitlement spending. But after six years of all that, our allies have got the message that they are on their own,
our enemies that there are few consequences to aggression, and neutrals that joining with America does not mean
ending up on the winning side.
Obama and
the Culture of Death. Obama is setting the stage for the decimation of the military.
U.S. Army Reserve Major Montgomery J. Granger writes that "[t]he danger of electing a president with
no military experience, or respect for those who do serve, is coming home to roost. Obama hates the
military and takes every opportunity to humiliate and endanger U.S. forces, especially our elite
marines and Navy SEALS, and now is striking at the heart of our forces: The Army."
U.S.
Nuke Sites Dismantled Security to Save Money, Report Warns. The National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA), which is tasked with managing the nation's nuclear stockpile and
securing classified research sites, has "increased risks and reduced security" over the past
several years in a bid to reduce overhead costs, according to a new Government Accountability
Office (GAO) report. Security vulnerabilities at these NNSA sites still persist two years after a
major breach at one of its top facilities in Tennessee. The administration's own officials have
described the security policy as "chaotic" and "dysfunctional," according to the report.
Obama
Sending Troops Who Could Be Prosecuted in Iraqi Courts. When U.S. troops arrive back
in Iraq to try to salvage its rapidly deteriorating situation, they have more to worry about than
fighting ISIS terrorists. Those soldiers could also face criminal prosecution in Iraqi courts,
since President Barack Obama failed to secure an immunity agreement for American forces. [...] Far
from the "equal justice under law" that is the hallmark of America's judiciary, Iraq's courts are
thoroughly compromised and unreliable.
Time for a Dose of
Reality. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the recent failures that have engulfed the
Obama administration are all related to the military. Reality hits home quickly in military
matters; military affairs are not an area where you can play, as the leadership and elected officials
of the left have long been playing, an elaborate game of pretend.
No
Mr. President, You are the 'Serious Threat to Everybody's Future'. While he golfs,
vacations, and parties with the rich and famous, our enemies have become seasoned warriors with
weapons, strategies, and plans intended to defeat us. We are in serious trouble! In addition to
obliterating our reputation as a superpower with the will to face the evildoers, Obama has
decimated our military capability bringing us to pre-WWII levels. Eight years of a
Commander-in-Chief who has nothing but disdain for our military's ability to project strength
and instill fear across the globe may very well take decades to repair and rebuild.
President
Obama's Exceptionally Productive Week. In the midst of America grappling with the reality that veterans
are safer on the battlefield than on a VA hospital waiting list, on Memorial Day, Barack Obama, lover of all things
military, flew to Kabul to surprise our U.S. servicemen and women. [...] Looking spiffy in a brown bomber jacket
festooned with American flags, the guy who effectively barred veterans from entering the WWII Memorial during the sequester
promised the troops that their well-being was of the utmost concern: [...]
Pentagon
wrestles with false climate predictions as military funds shifted to green agenda.
Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study that put forth many scary scenarios.
Consultants told the military that, by now, California would be flooded by inland seas, The Hague
would be unlivable, polar ice would be mostly gone in summer, and global temperatures would rise at
an accelerated rate as high as 0.5 degrees a year. None of that has happened.
Yet the 2003 report, "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National
Security," is credited with kick-starting the movement that, to this day and perhaps with more
vigor than ever, links climate change to national security.
The Editor says...
President Obama is wasting military manpower by having the Pentagon plan to fight the weather instead of fighting actual enemies.
A-10
planes slighted in defense bill measure. Supporters of the A-10 warplane were
rebuffed Friday as a U.S. House panel approved a defense spending measure that would let the Air
Force retire the 1970s-era combat aircraft. The move by the appropriations subcommittee added to
uncertainty over the Air Force's plan to retire all 283 of the planes to save $4.2 billion over
five years in a time of declining military spending. The A-10 fleet's loss would be a major blow
to the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, which maintains a fleet of 18
Thunderbolt II A-10 fighters.
DHS
Stonewalls Congress on 'Hands Off' Permitting Those with Terror Ties into U.S.. The
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is refusing to answer Congress' questions about the existence
of a secret terrorist "hands off" list that is said to have permitted individuals with terrorist
ties easy entrance into the United States. The existence of the hands-off list was first
publicized earlier this month by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), who released a cache of internal
DHS emails detailing the list's existence and a discussion about permitting an alleged member of
the Muslim Brotherhood to enter the United States.
Obama
Shuts Down 500,000 Acres. President Obama signed an executive order last week to
place 500,000 acres under the "permanent protection" of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National
Monument (OMDP) in south central New Mexico. Despite Obama's claim that "there is no time to waste
to preserve our precious resources," there was no urgency and little justification for the creation
of this federal park.
Report:
'Undocumented Immigrants' Will Be Able to 'Join the Military'. The Huffington
Post reports that the "Obama Administration Plans To Let Some Young Undocumented Immigrants
Join The Military." The plans have been approved by the Pentagon. "Pentagon officials have
approved a policy that would allow a limited group of undocumented young people who came to the
U.S. as children to enlist in the military, opening up a path for them to eventually become
citizens, The Huffington Post has learned," reports the liberal website.
Valerie
Plame: CIA outing 'colossally stupid'. Another CIA official whose cover was blown by a presidential
administration said the inadvertent outing of an intelligence official in Afghanistan by the White House was "colossally
stupid" and will have repercussions for the intelligence community. But Valerie Plame, whose identity was infamously
leaked by the Bush administration in 2003 and touched off a scandal, said on Wednesday it's an apples to oranges comparison
as it appears to be a mistake, rather than a malicious takedown.
Behind
the White House Leak of the CIA Agent's Name Is a Real Story. According to the AP, a
CIA agent's name was leaked by the White House. The AP calls it an "embarrassing flub" even though
it was a crime when an aide in the Bush administration leaked the name of part-time agent Valerie
Plame. What's given little attention in the story is the fact that the Washington Post reporter
who wrote the story sent his copy to the White House to be checked for "accuracy." [...] Of course
it's collusion. The reporter is merely an extension of the White House propaganda/spin machine.
Obama
Outs CIA Agent: None Dare Call It Treason. The White House, although it initially
tried to "un-ring the bell" and figure out if there was a way to undo the obvious damage, has
subsequently declined to comment on the disclosure. It is at present unclear whether or how the
disclosure would affect US intelligence operations in Afghanistan. But releasing the name of a
covert employee of the CIA isn't mere incompetence — it is a felony.
When
Bushies blew a CIA cover, it was 'treason'; now, it's a mistake. Valerie Plame doesn't deny that
blowing the cover of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan is a serious matter. It's just that, discussing
the issue at a Wednesday evening forum sponsored by The Atlantic, Plame seemed to view the outing of the CIA's
top spy on the front lines in the Afghan war as more of an embarrassment than an outrage. "My understanding
is ... it was a military aide who compiled this list of those that were greeting the president when he came," Plame
said. "Colossally stupid, but I think it was inadvertent. It was an error ... really stupid.
The White House apparently has said that they're going to do an investigation, and they'll find someone who's
really embarrassed at the end of it."
White
House Looking For A Scapegoat In Outing Of CIA Station Chief. President Obama's Chief
of Staff Denis McDonough has asked White House counsel Neil Eggleston to investigate the outing of
the CIA station chief for Afghanistan. As AMN reported Sunday night, White House staff initially
blamed the military for the release of the name of the spy, an act that carries a prison sentence
if done intentionally. "The chief of staff has asked the White House counsel, Neil Eggleston, to
look into what happened and report back to him with recommendations on how the Administration can
improve processes and make sure something like this does not happen again," said spokeswoman
Caitlin Hayden Tuesday. That's direct and forceful CYA language. It's no one's
fault, unless they can end the career of some military officer.
Exposure
of CIA Station Chief Spotlights Administration's Immaturity. Anybody can make a
mistake, and that certainly appears to be what led to the Obama White House's exposure of the top
CIA official in Afghanistan this weekend. Unfortunately, as Roger Kimball details, this is not an
isolated incident. In year six of the Obama administration, it speaks volumes about not just
incompetence but immaturity and the skewed priorities that come with it.
What's
not to trust in an Obama team probe of the Obama team? The latest Obama investigation
is beyond embarrassing and adds to his accumulating image as an incompetent boob. At the start of
his brief Kabul stop, 15 people briefed Obama. As usual, the White House emailed some 6,000 media
members the briefers' names and titles. One person was listed as "Chief of Station," a unique
government job title that identifies the CIA's top officer in-country. Oops! It should have been
deleted before distribution. So, the Obama administration blew the cover of its top spook in
Afghanistan, who oversees deadly drone strikes and other clandestine business of war. Fame can be
dangerous to that officer's health. The Obama folks do not hold those people in high regard anyway.
Obama
insists on protecting intel sources — days after blowing CIA agent's cover. Three days after the
White House inadvertently blew the cover of the CIA's top officer in Kabul, President Obama on Wednesday said his
administration is committed to effective intelligence-gathering and protecting "sources and methods" abroad. [...] His
remarks come less than 72 hours after the administration provided to the media a list of U.S. officials who met with
the president during his surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday [5/25/2014]. The list then was sent out in a
"pool report" by a reporter traveling with the president, winding up in the hands of thousands of reporters.
White
House's outing of top spy comes at difficult time for Obama. Reporters who accompany
the president on his travels routinely must serve "pool duty" — the process of chronicling the
president's movements and details of his daily interactions and remarks to write up and pass along
to thousands of journalists, including foreign media. White House aides gave the journalist
assigned to pool duty Sunday [5/25/2014] the list that inadvertently included the station chief's name.
It's common for the White House to provide such lists to reporters on pool duty but the names of
intelligence officials usually are omitted.
White
House launches internal probe into accidental outing of CIA official. The White House
has launched an internal probe after its press office inadvertently outed the top CIA official in
Afghanistan — a national security blunder that could put that individual at risk.
A spokeswoman with the National Security Council confirmed to Fox News that the White House chief of
staff asked White House Counsel Neil Eggleston to "look into what happened" and make
recommendations on "how the administration can improve processes and make sure something
like this does not happen again."
The
Incompetence of Barack Obama: Outed CIA covert officer edition. This weekend Obama
made a completely unnecessary trip to Afghanistan to "thank the troops." Given that Afghan
President Hamid Karzai refused to meet with him, one is left with the feeling that the trip was to
divert attention from the burgeoning VA scandal that has killed dozens, if not hundreds, of
veterans who were unwary enough to depend upon this administration for some semblance of
competence. But the administration was given an additional chance to demonstrated its utter
incompetence. The White House outed the CIA's chief of station in Kabul.
Critics:
White House Blunder Puts Whole CIA Unit in Peril. The accidental disclosure of the
identity of the top CIA agent in Afghanistan by the Obama administration could affect operations in
that country — even target the entire unit for assassination by the Taliban, political
operatives said Monday. "It looks like a rookie mistake, but it's in year six of the
administration," retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, who directed both the CIA and the National
Security Agency, told Newsmax. "It's a bit stunning. You would never expect to see that
in material that's been made public."
Where's
the Outrage Over CIA Outing? The White House had egg on its face today. The news
about the accidental outing of the name of the CIA station chief in Kabul, Afghanistan seemed to be
just one more instance in a long list of incompetent episodes in a second term that is proving to
be as problematic as even President Obama's sternest critics predicted. But the story of how the
name of the station chief — which is, obviously, classified material, and was sent out in an email
to thousands of journalists as one of a number of people briefing the president during his Memorial
Day weekend trip to Afghanistan — should not be dismissed as merely the latest episode of the real
life situation comedy that is Obama's second-term West Wing staff.
The
"Gang of Eight" and Immigration Reform: "Bordering on a National Security Nightmare".
In the wake of the recent elections, immigration has risen to the top of the list of newsworthy
stories — in part pushed to that position of significance by statements made by key
members of Congress and the President that "Pathways to Citizenship" must be provided to what they
claim is a population of 11 million illegal aliens. Some politicians, particularly those from the
Republican Party, are being stampeded to act irrationally in a move to appeal to a segment of the
American electorate, "Latino Voters."
Obama
Has Failed The Border States. Is It Time To Form Posses To Battle Drug Cartels?
Mexican narco-terrorist cartels armed by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and (Free) Firearms
are pouring north across a border that the Obama Administration refuses to secure, and are now
boldly threatening American law enforcement officers with death if they dare stand in the way of
the cartel surging into Texas: [...] While the federal government under Barack Obama is refusing to
combat the cartels — which are, after all, heavily armed by firearms that the ATF
provided and the DOJ refuses to account for — local police seem to be left largely on
their own in the border regions to defend the citizenry as cartels surge across an undefended
southern border. Interestingly enough, Dave Kopel provides the constitutional mechanism to supply
the manpower to turn back this tide with or without the support of a corrupt and feckless federal
government, in the use of the modern posse comitatus.
Why
is Team Obama unable to bring home Marine held in Mexico? This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day in
honor of our American servicemen and women who have sacrificed their lives defending us both at home and abroad.
[...] Unfortunately, despite President Obama's Memorial Day proclamation that we shall "never forget" the sacrifices
of our soldiers, he and Secretary of State John Kerry have forgotten about a living American hero in dire need [of]
rescue: U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi.
Obama
Calls For 'Responsible End' to Afghanistan War [Whatever] That Means. President Obama
made a surprise trip to Afghanistan today. He was at the Bagram Air Force Base for just a couple of
hours and said this: ["]For many of you, this will be your last tour in Afghanistan. America's
war in Afghanistan will come to a responsible end.["] What exactly does this mean?
The U.S. wields the most powerful military force in the history of the planet, utilizing the best-trained
forces and fiercest weaponry ever designed, and the President chooses the word "responsible"?
Pentagon
looks to enlist young illegal alien 'dreamers' into military. The Defense Department said Monday [5/19/2014]
it is looking at expanding its application pool by letting some young illegal immigrants join the military, in what could be
another tool for an Obama administration seeking unilateral steps to take on immigration reform. Immigrant rights
advocates are pleading with the Pentagon to declare "dreamers" to be vital to the national interest, which would allow them
to enlist in the military under a special program that grants non-immigrants a quick pathway to citizenship in exchange for
years of military service.
Speaker
John Boehner: Obama's Border 'Monument' Impedes Critical Security. Today [5/21/2014] President
Obama announced the creation of a 600,000 acre national monument in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Obama will bypass the Senate and Congress in order to declare the sanctuary, called the Organ Mountains-Desert
Peaks National Monument. In a statement provided to Breitbart Texas, Speaker of the House John Boehner
said that the new monument greatly undermines border security.
Sheriffs'
Association: Release Of Convicted Immigrants 'Unacceptable'. The release of criminal immigrants awaiting the outcome of deportation
proceedings is "unacceptable," according to a sheriffs' association involved in discussions with the Obama administration about immigration
reform. In a letter this week to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson, the Major County Sheriffs' Association — a
group of elected sheriffs representing about 80 of the largest counties in the U.S. — expressed dismay at the Obama administration's release
of criminal immigrants awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings.
Boehner:
Obama move on N.M. monument could thwart immigration reform. President Obama's new national monument in New Mexico,
which he announced Wednesday, thrilled environmentalists, who said it preserves nearly 500,000 acres of spectacular and pristine
lands, but it could also doom his hopes of getting Congress to pass an immigration bill this year. House Speaker John A.
Boehner said the president's unilateral move is exactly the type of action the GOP has been warning against, adding it shows the
president isn't serious about enforcing border security. Mr. Boehner has repeatedly said Republicans are reluctant to trust
that the president will take seriously border security and immigration enforcement as part of a "comprehensive" deal that also
would include the path to citizenship that Democrats prize.
Discredited in Benghazi.
The abandonment of the State Department-CIA mission in Benghazi that came under attack on September 11,
2012 marked the failure of the Obama administration's foreign policy toward the Muslim world.
That American generals and admirals raised no protest to the decision not to go to the American
contingent's defense dishonored our military and undercut its sense of duty, responsibility, and
self-respect. The discredit brought upon the United States by foolish, dishonest foreign policies
is dangerous and hard enough to live down. But history teaches that militaries whose moral
qualities have been undermined court disaster, and that restoring those qualities is very hard.
Lawless
Order Is How This White House Always Operates. Of course, the president infamously
refuses to enforce ObamaCare's mandates, and his Justice Department unconstitutionally eavesdrops
on journalists, but there really is contempt for the law in most places you look within the
executive branch. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement document obtained by the Center for
Immigration Studies last week revealed the release of over 36,000 aliens convicted of close to
88,000 crimes, including homicide, violent sex crimes and kidnapping. On Wednesday [5/21/2014],
taking a page from Bill Clinton, President Obama will nationalize about a half million acres of New Mexico
bordering Mexico as the new Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, infuriating local
police who warn that Mexican drug cartels will use it as "a pathway for criminals to get into this
country to do their criminal acts," as Dona Ana County Sheriff Todd Garrison told the Washington Times.
Republicans,
Local Sheriff Warn Border Wilderness Zone Will Create Vast Drug Corridor. A pending
proposal from President Obama to create a vast new wilderness area on the U.S.-Mexico border is
drawing criticism from Republican lawmakers and local law enforcement officials who say it would
significantly impede border security. The Obama administration is set to designate a 600,000 acre
national monument in south-central New Mexico to be managed and controlled by the Bureau of Land
Management, a federal agency. The designated land will be called the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
National Monument, and environmentalists have long[ ]sought the designation.
'Over
My Dead Body': Spies Fight Obama Push to Downsize Terror War. In 2012, the Obama
administration produced a draft National Intelligence Estimate that reached a surprising
conclusion: al Qaeda was no longer a direct threat to America. That classified assessment, which
has never before been publicly disclosed, was in keeping with the message coming from the White
House. [...] But some senior U.S. intelligence officials, like Defense Intelligence Agency Director
Gen. Michael Flynn, fought hard against that assessment, which amounted to an official
pronouncement of the American intelligence community's collected wisdom.
The Editor says...
Hmmm... Why would Barack H. Obama want to soft-pedal any criticism of Islamic terrorism?
The answer is obvious.
Grassley
Investigating Alleged DHS Terrorist Lookout Record Deletions. Senator Charles
Grassley (R-IA) is investigating allegations the Department of Homeland Security has deleted
records related to a list of terrorists the agency maintains as part of a "hands off" policy on
some of the individuals on the list. Grassley released emails last week describing the alleged
terrorist "hands off" list at DHS which apparently resulted in the deletion of records of an
individual who was allegedly a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a "close associate" of a
supporter of "Hamas, Hizbollah, and (Palestinian) Islamic Jihad."
Hagel backs
review of U.S. military ban on transgender troops. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Sunday the U.S.
military should review its ban on allowing transgender people to serve openly in the armed forces, saying that "every
qualified American" should have an opportunity to serve.
Air
Force plan to strip generals of authority. Senior Air Force leaders have drafted a budget-driven plan
that would strip the three- and four-star generals who oversee major commands of their authority to manage their bases.
A draft of the plan obtained by The Washington Times shows that the Air Force is aiming to consolidate support
operations under the umbrella of a single center, known as the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center.
GAO:
Pentagon's Finances Are a Mess. The Pentagon has roughly $7.2 billion in excess
equipment, gave out more than $1 billion in improper payments, and wasted billions on a system for
the Air Force to account for its inventory, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
According to a GAO report released Tuesday [5/13/2014], the Department of Defense (DOD) faces "serious and
continuing deficiencies," including the inability to account for their total assets.
We Shouldn't Import Known
Terrorists Into the United States. At a time when the world is becoming more dangerous and al Qaida and affiliated
groups have reconstituted and grown, we should not be importing known terrorists into the United States. Sounds simple,
right? Not to one member of Congress. According to an article in The Hill newspaper last week, U.S. Rep. Adam
Smith, D-Wash., the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, plans to offer an amendment to this year's defense
spending bill that would do just that. Smith's amendment would reverse existing law that forbids the administration
from importing Guantanamo detainees into the United States. He claims the detention facility cannot "effectively
close... until the congressionally mandated restrictions are removed."
Group
preparing to press military for atheist chaplain, source says. In what some might see as an oxymoron, an
advocacy group apparently is preparing to ask the Defense Department to appoint a chaplain — for atheists.
A source tells Fox News that the Military Association of Atheists and Free Thinkers plans to make the request on Tuesday,
floating its president Jason Torpy as the proposed chaplain. Asked for comment, the association referred FoxNews.com
to its position in support of a prior bid to name a "humanist" chaplain. But a Defense Department official confirmed
that a meeting is planned between the applicant and the Navy on Tuesday.
The Editor says...
Apparently this is obvious to everybody but me, but what does an atheist chaplain do?
Report:
Pentagon Paid $150 Per Gallon for Green Jet Fuel. The Department of Defense (DOD) paid $150 per
gallon for alternative jet fuel made from algae, more than 64 times the current market price for standard
carbon-based fuels, according to a report released on Wednesday [5/7/2014]. The Government Accountability
Office (GAO) noted in its report that a Pentagon official reported paying "about $150 per gallon for
1,500 gallons of alternative jet fuel derived from algal oil."
Military
Downsizing = National Security Danger. The Democrats and the Obama Administration have decided to
fund their domestic programs at the expense of America's national security. The U.S. Army will be shrunk
to its smallest force since before World War II, and the Marines will be reduced by manpower of about 8% by
2016. The entire fleet of Air Force A-10 jets will be eliminated. The Navy's eleven aircraft
carriers will have to reduce its operating status and the USS George Washington will be retired in 2016.
Experts interviewed believe these reductions will impose a greater risk for the armed forces and a greater
risk for America's national security.
Sensitivity:
DOD's 'Human Goals' Updated to Include LGBTs. In a celebration of its sensitivity on
Monday, the Defense Department unveiled a revised document celebrating the department's "diversity"
and "culture of inclusion." "I'm proud that the language of the charter has been updated to reflect
the contributions of gay and lesbian military personnel, who now serve openly and proudly across America's
armed forces," Defense Department Secretary Chuck Hagel said as he and the nation's top military leaders
signed the document at a public ceremony.
Today's
Army: Commander Suspended for Alleged Insensitivity. A Fort Carson commander who wasn't allowed
to leave for Afghanistan with his troops last month was suspended over allegations that he was insensitive to
victims of sexual assault and discrimination, a newspaper reported Tuesday [4/22/2014]
Obama [is]
deliberately emboldening America's enemies. One of the more shocking events illustrating the growing
strength of al Qaeda is the release of a video this week showing what CNN reports as "the largest and most dangerous
gathering of al Qaeda in years." [...] For an administration that does not hide its eagerness to use drones to kill
terrorists, experts and journalists alike were wondering whether our intelligence community knew about this meeting,
and if so, why didn't they take the opportunity to kill the most dangerous of them with one drone strike?
The terrorists on the video seem strangely unconcerned with their safety, as though there was no need for them to
feel at risk.
Obama
Executive Order Makes Foreign Armies Eligible for DoD Medal. President Obama signed an
executive order today extending eligibility for the third-highest Defense Department recognition to
foreign armies. "Executive Order 12019 of November 3, 1977 (Establishing the Defense Meritorious
Service Medal), is amended by inserting, 'or to any member of the armed forces of a friendly foreign
nation,' after 'any member of the Armed Forces of the United States,'" said the short order.
Marines,
Army prepare women for combat. The military is taking steps to prepare women for
combat roles in 2016. The Marine Corps announced that it would give young female lieutenants who
wash out of the grueling Infantry Officer Course a second shot, same as their male counterparts.
The Army is conducting a study to test just how fit a soldier has to be to engage in combat. The
study involves 60 women and 100 men.
Cancellation
of Tomahawk Puts American Navy On Perilous Course. The Obama Administration will be adding insult with
its cancellation of production of the Navy's Tomahawk and Hellfire missile programs. [...] The Tomahawk decision is
particularly troubling, as the cruise missile has for years been the workhorse of presidents seeking to deliver limited,
precise, stand-off military responses. During the 2011 Libyan crisis, the Navy flung 220 Tomahawks in support
of operations. We launched more than 1,100 at Kosovo. About 100 of these missiles are used in an average
year. That means the Administration's decision to stop production after 2015 will see the Navy's stock of
Tomahawks gone by around 2018. And disturbingly, there is no proven replacement in the development pipeline.
Pentagon to remove 50 nuclear
missiles from silos. The Pentagon plans to remove 50 nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles
from their silos over the next four years but not eliminate them from the U.S. arsenal, a move aimed at complying
with a 2010 treaty with Russia and avoiding a fight with members of Congress from states where the missiles are based.
Lawmakers had feared reductions in nuclear forces required under the New START treaty would eliminate an entire
ICBM squadron at one of three Air Force bases in North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming where the U.S. keeps its
450 Minuteman III missiles — a potentially major economic blow.
Army
goes to war with National Guard, seizes Apache attack helicopters. The National Guard is following a
direct order — but it's not happy with it. All of the Guard's AH-64 Apache helicopters are scheduled
to go to the active Army, and there's nothing its top brass can do about it. [...] When the logistics are worked out,
the Army's fleet of OH-58 Kiowa helicopters will be divested, its newly acquired Apaches will fill its reconnaissance
and scouting needs, and the National Guard will be given UH-60 Black Hawks. Advocates of the Army's decision
say that the Black Hawks actually benefit the Guard because they are an incredible asset for disaster relief efforts.
A
Clear Choice on Defense. For decades, defense spending made up roughly 50 percent of the federal
budget. Today, it's just 18 percent. And if we stay on the current path, the Congressional Budget
Office estimates that defense will fall below 10 percent by 2024. The reason? Entitlement programs and
interest payments are growing out of control. Government spending on health care is set to skyrocket.
Interest payments are projected to quadruple over the next decade.
The War on Our Warriors. Karen
and Billy Vaughn gave birth to one of our most elite worriers, Aaron Vaughn. One of the team that took out our most-wanted terrorist,
and 90 days later was shot out of the sky. Why was he shot out of the sky? Because our Commander-in-Chief's rules of
engagement are so heavily influenced by Muslim Brotherhood advisers and sympathizers in the highest level of our government.
Retired
Col. to MSNBC: Military Downsizing Will Result in Fewer Shootings. Retired Col. Jack Jacobs, a Medal of Honor
recipient and NBC News military affairs analyst, joined the hosts of MSNBC's The Cycle on Wednesday [4/9/2014] to react to
President Barack Obama's address commemorating last week's shooting at Fort Hood. Jacobs lamented that the military
is downsizing personnel to pre-World War II levels, but noted that one element of "good news" to that condition was that
there would be fewer shooting incidents on bases similar to what occurred last week.
Defense
Secretary 'Looking' at Banning Tobacco Sales at Military Installations. Defense Secretary Chuck
Hagel is "looking" at banning the sale of tobacco at military installations. According to one military
publication, Hagel appears to support it. "As the Navy considers banning tobacco sales on all bases and
ships, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave a strong endorsement of the review Monday, and suggested that he
would be in favor of a ban," reports Stars and Stripes.
Ft. Hood
Soldier to CNN: 'People in Jail Have a Better Life' than Us. An unnamed Ft. Hood solider, speaking to
CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin, said that she did not blame the man accused of shooting dozens at the base on Tuesday night
for the actions he took. She said that Ft. Hood is a "black hole," that the soldiers stationed there do not
make enough money to maintain their sanity, and that the base's quality of life is not as good as that of inmates in
American prisons.
Senator
Accuses Obama of Trying to Implement UN Arms Trade Treaty Without Congress. The senator leading
the bipartisan coalition against the UN Arms Trade Treaty is concerned about new administration efforts to
implement the treaty without bringing it through Congress. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) wrote President
Obama today to mark the first anniversary of the majority-rule adoption of the treaty by the UN General Assembly.
On Oct. 15, 2013, 50 members of the Senate sent a letter to Obama "pledging to oppose ratification of the
treaty, and giving notice that we do not regard the U.S. as bound to uphold its object as purpose."
Obama
Told Military Leaders: Accept Gays In Military Or Step Down, Admiral Says. In a meeting with the heads
of the five service branches in 2010, President Obama offered the leaders a choice: Support my efforts to end
the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, or resign. In a video obtained by BuzzFeed via a Freedom of
Information Act request, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp revealed that Obama was unwilling to compromise
with service leaders over DADT during a meeting in 2010. "We were called into the Oval Office and President
Obama looked all five service chiefs in the eye and said, 'This is what I want to do.' I cannot divulge
everything he said to us, that's private communications within the Oval Office, but if we didn't agree with
it — if any of us didn't agree with it — we all had the opportunity to resign our
commissions and go do other things," he said.
Obama
to kill Navy's Tomahawk, Hellfire missile programs in budget decimation. President Barack Obama is seeking
to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say have helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority
for the past several decades. The Tomahawk missile program — known as "the world's most advanced cruise
missile" — is set to be cut by $128 million under Obama's fiscal year 2015 budget proposal and completely
eliminated by fiscal year 2016, according to budget documents released by the Navy.
Sailors
leaving Navy over stress on social issues, Top Gun instructor says. A Navy F-18 fighter pilot and former Top
Gun instructor is publicly warning admirals that retention is beginning to suffer from the military's relentless social
conditioning programs. Cmdr. Guy Snodgrass, until recently a Pentagon speech writer for the chief of naval operations,
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, said sailors are becoming fed-up with the constant emphasis on social issues — an apparent
reference to gays in the military, women in combat and ending sexual harassment.
Obama to Kill Tomahawk,
Hellfire Missile Programs. President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful
missile programs that experts say have helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several
decades. The Tomahawk missile program — known as "the world's most advanced cruise
missile" — is set to be cut by $128 million under Obama's fiscal year 2015 budget proposal
and completely eliminated by fiscal year 2016, according to budget documents released by the Navy.
The
Worrisome Future of Special Operation Forces. I came away from this briefing unsure if the special
operations leadership really believes this stuff or is mouthing it to distract the public from discussing its real
mission. If it's sincere, I worry about our future defense.
Obama To Stab Backs of Military Again By Reducing Pensions 10%.
Not content with reducing military levels to dangerous and even suicidal plateaus of pre-WWII strengths but with cutting personal pay for
military personnel who will put their lives on the line ad infinitum; Obama now plans as well on cutting the military retirement pension
plans to involve personal contributions from their newly lowered rates of pay for their service.
How's This for Flexibility, Mr. President?
It was a shocking disclosure just two years ago. In Seoul, South Korea, President Barack Obama's voice was picked up
on a hot mic as he told Russia's Dmitri Medvedev: "Tell Vladimir [Putin] I can be more flexible after the election."
It was an unprecedented confession by an American head of state. It was shocking — or should have been — because
it showed the president of the United States conspiring, literally whispering assurances to a foreign leader that may not
have been consistent with his own public pronouncements to us, the American voters, or to the world. [...] Our liberal
media — always in the tank for Mr. Obama — yawned and brushed it all off.
On Track to Restart the Cold War. On economic policy,
President Obama has consistently and thoroughly followed just the opposite of everything Reagan did. And that is why he has consistently
and thoroughly gotten the opposite of Reagan's results. [...] Next in the ongoing deconstruction of America's defenses came Obama's perverse 2010
"New Start" supposed arms control deal with Russia. Under that "deal," America's deployable nuclear warheads are to be sharply reduced from
5,000 to only 1,550, about 10% of what America had at the peak of its defenses. In return, Russia is required to make exactly zero reductions
in its deployable warheads.
What's going on at
Air Force Academy? God's word vs. Pentagon's word. The Restore Military Religious Freedom coalition, a group of two dozen
like-minded religious liberty organizations, announced Thursday [3/13/2014] that they are ready to offer assistance to any Air Force
Academy cadet who faces repercussions for writing Bible verses on their hallway whiteboards. The Air Force Academy admitted
Wednesday that a cadet leader had to remove a Bible verse he had displayed outside his dorm room because it offended non-Christians
and could "cause subordinates to doubt the leader's religious impartiality."
The Editor says...
George Washington was a great military leader, and he certainly didn't exhibit "religious impartiality."
Air
Force: Christians' Religious Speech Not Legally Protected Right. Christians in the U.S. military are being told they
must forfeit their First Amendment rights. Bible verses are being erased from cadets' personal dorm-room white boards, and
military lawyers claim that legal protections for religion only pertain to matters such as clothing and growing beards but do not
extend to any religious expression such as talking about one's faith or posting a Bible verse.
Obama Cuts
Military Pensions, Exempts ObamaCare Subsidies. On the heels of announcing that Army troop levels will be cut below pre-World
War II levels, the Military Times has reported that the Obama administration is planning to reduce military pension costs by 10% by converting
part of their retirement to 401(k)-like defined-contribution plans from defined-benefit plans. What makes this interesting is that it
affects military retirees and members of the military who are non-union and therefore can't strike or engage in collective bargaining.
Public-sector union employees will retain their defined-benefit plans. So, those who defend this country will be cut while those who
feed at the public trough and whose union dues provide a ready supply of campaign cash will not.
Panel says US ban on transgender service is outdated, lacks sound
rationale. The United States should join the dozen other nations that allow transgender people to serve in the armed forces,
an independent commission said in a report released Thursday, saying there is no medical reason for the decades-old ban and calling on President
Barack Obama to lift it.
Military families
would take a $5,000 hit in benefits with Obama budget. If President Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel get their
way, a typical U.S. Army sergeant stands to lose up to $5,000 in annual benefits, according to a leading veterans group that is
mobilizing for battle over the proposed cuts to the retirement, health care and other compensation offered to those who serve.
The budget restructuring outlined by Mr. Hagel last month calls for a series of politically tricky compensation reductions that risk
outraging active-duty and retired service members who signed up for duty with the belief that they could rely on a rock-solid
pension system to help pay for expenses such as food, housing, health care and college tuition for their children.
Obama
Seeks Executive Options To Aid Illegal Aliens. President Barack Obama has launched an internal review on how he can provide
additional leniency to illegal aliens inside the United States of America, the White House announced on Thursday evening [3/13/2014].
Obama "has asked Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to do an inventory of the Department's current practices to see how it can
conduct enforcement more humanely within the confines of the law," the White House said in a Thursday press release.
Immigration: Obama orders deportation review. US President
Barack Obama has directed officials to review how to enforce immigration laws "more humanely". [...] "The president emphasised his deep
concern about the pain too many families feel from the separation that comes from our broken immigration system," said a statement from
White House press secretary Jay Carney on Thursday.
The Editor says...
Sounds like the President is trying to strengthen the "anchor baby" effect, obviously pandering to the Hispanic vote. If
families are worried about the pain of separation, perhaps they should stay together on the Mexican side of the border.
What Else
Can the Obama Administration Do to Undermine U.S. Security? They spied on you. They lied to the Senate. They seized
telephone records from the Associated Press and considered criminalizing investigative journalism at Fox News. What else can the U.S.
intelligence community do to destroy its credibility, curb civil liberties, and ultimately undermine U.S. security? Spy on Congress.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat bravely challenging a Democratic White House, accused the CIA of searching computer files used
by her staffers on the Senate Intelligence Committee to review the CIA's now-defunct interrogation programs, potentially violating: [...]
Rand
Paul: U.S. Anti-Energy Policies Empower Russian Aggression. The Obama administration's anti-energy policies empower Russia
aggression and take away America's ability to respond, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) explained in a Time magazine editorial. Paul said America
has all the means to deter and punish Russian military aggression without the use of American military force but the Obama administration
has taken important economic weapons off the table with its anti-energy policies.
Obama to Cut Key Reconnaissance Fleet By
25 Percent. A key fleet of U.S. reconnaissance planes used to detect enemy aircraft in hostile settings will to be
cut by 25 percent under President Obama's fiscal year 2015 budget, according to multiple sources familiar with the budget proposal.
A fleet of 31 AWACs, or Airborne Warning and Control System planes, will be reduced to 24 by 2015 under Obama's budget proposal.
The situation has prompted concern in defense circles and elsewhere, where sources have pointed out that AWACS are currently deployed in
Poland and Romania in order to help monitor the standoff in Ukraine.
DHS tells
American border guards to run away from illegal immigrants hurling rocks at them, fleeing in vehicles. Top
administration officials have directed 21,000 border patrol officers to retreat whenever illegal immigrants throw rocks at them,
and to avoid getting in front of foreign drug-smugglers' vehicles as they head north with their drug shipments. "Agents
shall not discharge firearms in response to thrown or hurled projectiles... agents should obtain a tactical advantage in these
situations, such as seeking cover or distancing themselves," said the instructions, issued Mar. 7, under the signature of
Michael Fisher, chief of U.S. Border Patrol. Agents were also directed to keep their weapons holstered when drug smugglers
drive by. Agents can't use guns against "a moving vehicle merely fleeing from agents," say the instructions.
Obama's bizarre immigration
rules. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, none of us ever imagined a dozen years later we'd be negotiating
with the Taliban in Afghanistan, supplying aid to al Qaeda-affiliated "rebel" groups in Syria, and releasing from Gitmo some of the
most hardened al Qaeda operatives. Under the Obama administration, that's exactly what we're doing. Now we can add
another bizarre, and potentially dangerous, unilateral decree from the administration: Mr. Obama has ordered a change in
immigration rules making it easier for so-called "minor" terrorists to gain refugee status and asylum in the United States.
Putin
Doesn't Threaten Our National Security, Obama Does. [Scroll down] I'll tell you what does concern me:
Obama's hollowing out of our military — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced plans to slash the army's active-duty personnel
by at least another 70,000. Some support aircraft and cruisers are also slated for mothballs. The Marine Corps will
lose 8,000 of the few/the proud. In 2013, defense spending was 4% of GDP — taking us to pre-Pearl Harbor levels.
The president doesn't think we need a military, just a marker for drawing red lines.
All
50 governors battle proposed National Guard cuts, ahead of budget release. America's governors disagree on a lot of issues.
But they're united on one front — stopping the Pentagon from proceeding with planned cuts to the Army National Guard. As
President Obama prepares to release his budget plan on Tuesday [3/3/2014], all 50 governors have signed a letter asking him
to keep the Guard's ranks at 350,000, instead of cutting it down to 335,000 as the Pentagon has suggested.
Our Weakness, Their Aggression.
Plans are afoot to further shrink our military at the direction of a president who seems oddly committed to exposing the United
States to attack. As Russia, China, and North Korea openly increase their stockpiles and capabilities, President Obama openly
increases his devotion to socialism, spreading the diminishing wealth to those whose votes are needed to purchase our destruction.
He seems to have concluded that it is better to become communist than fight them.
Sacrificing the Military
to Entitlements. If we do not vote into office effective leaders who can convince us that we must prepare for future
threats by building a military deterrence, and who have the political spine to back up words with deeds to make sure that deterrence
works, then we must share some of the blame for the consequences sure to follow when our enemies and rivals are emboldened by our
seeming acceptance of empty bluster as an instrument of foreign policy, and by our willingness to prefer butter to guns.
GOP Governors Accuse Obama of Politically
Motivated National Guard Cuts. Republican governors are accusing President Barack Obama of making politically motivated cuts to
their states' National Guard funding. Speaking to reporters after a meeting between the President and the National Governors Association,
the GOP governors said they were deeply troubled by Obama's tone when asked about planned cuts to the National Guard. South Carolina
Governor Nikki Haley said Obama became "aggressive" and that his tone "chilled the room quite a bit."
Our Food Stamp Commander In
Chief. The U.S. withdrawal from global leadership continues as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proposes cutting the Army to its
smallest size since before World War II, leaving no replacement except tyrants and chaos. The best analysis of the devastating military
cuts ordered by President Obama came from former Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday's "Hannity": "He would much rather spend the money
on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for our troops."
End of American Military Dominance. President Barack Obama will
sharply cut ships, aircraft, and troops as part of a major reduction of U.S. military forces that will face even steeper downsizing in 2016, Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel announced on Monday [2/24/2014]. The defense cuts, to be announced formally in the president's budget proposal next month,
would reduce U.S. ground forces to their lowest level since World War II at a time when world threats are increasing.
Obama [is] Consciously Engineering America's
Decline. In remarks today [2/24/2014], Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said U.S. global military dominance can "no longer be taken for granted."
He said this even as he was in the process of announcing that the Obama administration plans to shrink the United States Army to its smallest force since before
the World War II buildup. (For context, the Army will go from a post-September 11 peak of 570,000 to between 440,000 and 450,000, the smallest Army
since 1940.)
America's
enemies will be delighted by the latest cuts to its military strength. It is not often that the American military takes its lead from its poorer
British relations, so we should take it as a backhanded compliment that the US Army is to follow the example set by its British counterpart by reducing its
manpower to its lowest level for decades. While Britain has cut the size of its standing Army to its lowest level since before the Napoleonic wars, the
reductions announced by Chuck Hagel, the US Defence Secretary, will only see it scaled down to its smallest level since before it joined the Second World War,
down to around 440,000 from its peak of 570,000 when the Obama administration first came to power.
Proposed budget will
reportedly shrink Army to pre-WWII numbers. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called Monday [2/24/2014] for shrinking the U.S. Army to its
smallest size in decades, along with other cuts, drawing criticism that the drastic changes will hurt U.S. security. Hagel announced his Pentagon
budget priorities Monday afternoon. The Army had already been preparing to shrink to 490,000 active-duty members from a wartime peak of 570,000.
Hagel is proposing to cut it further to between 440,000 and 450,000. That would make it the smallest since just before the U.S. entered World War II.
Cheney: Obama 'much rather
spend the money on food stamps' than the military. Former Vice President Dick Cheney responded Monday night to the Obama administration's
proposal to cut the U.S. Army to its lowest point since before World War II. Calling into Fox News' "Hannity," Cheney declared the proposed cuts
to be "absolutely dangerous" and "just devastating." "I have not been a strong supporter of Barack Obama. But this really is over the top.
It does enormous long-term damage to our military," Cheney said. "They act as though it is like highway spending and you can turn it on and off.
The fact of the matter is he is having a huge impact on the ability of future presidents to deal with future crises that are bound to arise."
The 'Before Obama' and 'After Obama' history lesson for school children.
Only yesterday, it was revealed that the Obama administration is planning on gutting the U.S. military to pre-World War II levels. Parents should
turn the tables by using this latest Obama move as the impetus to teach their children how America can legitimately claim guardian of world freedom status.
'American dominance in the seas, sky,
and space can no longer be taken for granted'. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in
74 years through a series of base closures and troops cuts, and by completely eliminating several Air Force aircraft fleets. The move comes as
the U.S. Army moves into the final phases of a massive troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Congress raises new red flags about American deficit spending.
Who's afraid of Barack Obama? The world would be a safer place if,
instead of feeling free to taunt President Obama, Iran and North Korea had to fear the consequences of defying him.
The Pentagon's Bow to Islamic Extremism.
"Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and hijabs. It's a major win for political
correctness and a big loss for military unit cohesion," said a recent report. This new relaxation of rules for Muslims comes at a time when the FBI is
tracking more than 100 suspected jihadi-infiltrators of the U.S. military. Just last month, Craig Benedict Baxam, a former Army soldier and convert
to Islam, was sentenced to seven years in prison due to his al-Qaeda/jihadi activities.
A Nation Governed by Traitors. Obama has
turned our military into a gay rights organization while the entire world is laughing. He's forcing the military commanders into retirement or
relieving them of duty if they do go along with his destructive policies. And then team Obama will be putting women to fight in the front lines
of combat. It will be interesting to see what becomes of our women once they're captured on the battle field.
Obama's Army
Only 85% Ready To Fight. Budget cuts, sequestration and indifference to maintaining what was once "the arsenal
of democracy" have led to units that are not deployment-ready and soldiers with weapons their grandfathers could have used.
Obama ties
military's hands by reading al Qaeda out of Benghazi. [B]ecause President Obama, for political reasons, is locked into the
story that al Qaeda wasn't directly involved in the Benghazi attack, the military is powerless to strike back. This despite Obama's
promises during the 2012 presidential campaign to bring justice to the perpetrators.
Silence Reigned, Heroes Died. In all
honesty, there were no revelations in [Robert] Gates's book, only confirmations of what we already understood — this Commander-in-Chief
had turned his back on the men and women still fighting in Afghanistan before the lights went out in the voting booths November 2008.
Pentagon, McDonald's
Capitulate To Sharia Law. Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards,
turbans and hijabs. It's a major win for political correctness and a big loss for military unit cohesion.
State
Department Adviser on Extremism Urges US to "Befriend" Al Qaeda. Officially there are no more terrorist attacks, just
man-caused disasters brought about by offensive YouTube videos. Also there are no more terrorists. Just Violent Extremists.
And there's no more counter-terrorism, just experts on Countering Violent Extremism.
The road to hell. War is no more. The
lawyers have simply defined it out of existence. After all, if you don't go to Congress for authorization, where's the war? It is a
condition of what used to be called strategic mindlessness.
Pentagon Proposes $1 Billion Cut to
Commissary's Budget. The Pentagon has proposed a plan that would cut $1 billion from the commissary's budget
over the next three years, Military.com reports. The commissary agency currently operates 247 stores across the world.
All but 24 rural stores would be closed under the proposed plan. The plan would cut the commissary agency's $1.4 billion
annual budget to $400 million.
First-Class Islam: Eric Holder Puts Muslims
Above Terror Suspicion. From 2008 to 2011, I was a guest lecturer at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (the primary DHS training
facility, located in coastal Georgia) and at Joint Special Operations University (which brings foreign officers to learn of U.S. irregular warfare,
located in Tampa). At both venues I was asked to lecture on the history of terrorism. [...] Only 14 of the 44 PowerPoint screens in my
presentation dealt with Islamic terrorism, although several of those actually mitigated against the concept. Nonetheless, in June 2009 I was
told that I could no longer lecture at FLETC, because the edict had come down from the new Obama administration that "no trainer who uses the term
'jihad' shall henceforth be used."
Foreign Policy Has Left
Obama A Global Laughing Stock. The latest U.S. ally to openly sneer at us is a senior British defense adviser who says President Obama
has "devalued the deterrent effect of American military capability" in the world.
Obama's
Foreign Policy Betrays Military Superiority. The takeover of Fallujah by al-Qaida wipes out our costly 2004 victory
in which we captured the Iraqi city at the cost of 100 Marines and soldiers killed in action, and hundreds more wounded.
Fallujah isn't just an Obama mistake; it's the exemplar of Obama's disastrous foreign and military policies designed to reduce
the power and prestige of America on the world stage. Obama's military policies are not merely based on his incompetence.
They are part of his personal philosophy to redistribute power in the world, [...]
Jeff
Sessions: Budget Deal 'Fix' Still Slashes More than 90% of Vets' Pensions. Senate Budget Committee ranking member
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) announced Tuesday that the "fix" Washington politicians developed to stop cuts to veterans' pensions
actually still slashes pensions for more than 90 percent of retired members of America's armed forces. Millions of
men and women who put their lives on the line for this country are still going to see reductions in their pensions, while illegal
aliens still have access to a tax credit loophole, Sessions said in his statement.
When the Commander-in-Chief is a
narcissist. No wonder the media are pushing the Chris Christie bridge story so hard; the revelations about President Obama's
conduct in office in Robert Gates's new book are frightening.
Senate Democrats Block Amendment to Restore
Military Pensions. Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a Republican attempt to restore military pensions cut in last month's budget
deal, denying a vote that would save up to $20 billion by closing a loophole that allows tax refunds to go to illegal aliens.
Rep Poe:
Congress Should Cut Foreign Aid, Not Military Pensions. After Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) succeeded in pushing through one percent
cuts in the annual Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for veteran and military retiree pension funds, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) pushed back by urging cuts in
foreign aid instead. Breitbart News spoke with Poe on January 6th, and he made clear he was alarmed by plans to place these cuts on "benefits
that were promised [to our military personnel] when they signed up to serve our country."
Krauthammer
on Gates revelations about Obama: 'How can a commander-in-chief do that?'. Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said Tuesday
[1/7/2014] on "Special Report with Bret Baier" that former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates' revelation in his new memoir that his
commander-in-chief didn't believe in the war in Afghanistan and subsequent surge in troops was shocking. "Obama doesn't believe in the
surge or in the war, or in his own actions," Krauthammer said, "He doesn't believe in [General] Petraeus, he hates [Afghan President] Karzai,
he thinks the war isn't his. How can a commander-in-chief do that?"
DOD
Reviewing Its 'Equal Opportunity' Training — After Anti-Christian Materials Exposed. In response to a letter from
a coalition of religious liberty advocates concerned about anti-Christian bias in Defense Department "equal opportunity" training materials,
the Department of Defense says it is reviewing those materials and will decide this month whether to continue using "private organizations"
as resources in developing them. The coalition specifically cited the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a group the military should
stop relying upon as a source for equal opportunity training.
So Many Intolerable Lies. Two events last week — one an
announcement by the Marine Corps, the other speeches at the inauguration of New York City's new mayor — illustrated vividly how President Obama and
his media cohort have so narrowed the boundaries of political speech that we no longer believe we can challenge outright lies. Among the lies we've
become inured to is that women can perform every job a man can, including those of combat infantryman and special operators. We've also been told the
lie that the injection of women into combat arms has no effect on the warrior culture.
Pension
cuts to working-age military retirees drawing fire. Steve Dykes, an Army veteran with 23 years in the military, said
Thursday [1/2/2014] he thought his retiree benefits would be safe when he left the service in 2010. Dykes recalled a key decision
he made to turn down a $30,000 bonus at the 15-year mark, keeping his full retiree benefits in place. [...] He now believes those who
took the bonus and accepted reduced benefits may have ended up with the better deal.
U.S.
Marines weaken fitness requirement for women, won't make them do three pull-ups. The U.S. Marine Corps has quietly
walked back a 2012 directive from the service's highest-ranking officer that would have rejected female recruits and officer
candidates who can't perform three chin-ups as part of their physical fitness training. The reason — 55 percent
of the women attempting the test are failing. Just one percent of men can't complete the exercise.
War on Christmas: the VA and Army Crack Down
on Christmas. As Christians throughout the world prepare to celebrate Christmas, the war on Christmas rages on in the most unlikely of
places: the military. For centuries, military members have gripped Bibles in foxholes, prayed to God to hear their prayers. American
forces prayed in the Argonne Forest, begged for God's intervention as they withstood a ferocious shelling campaign in Bastogne. Now, the military
is doing everything they can to make the ranks a God-free zone.
1 percent
pay raise latest pinch for troops, veterans struggling to pay bills. President Obama on Monday signed an executive order giving military
personnel and civilian federal workers a 1 percent pay raise, the first raise for civilians in four years. But for military families, it was
another hit. Military members had been receiving an annual pay increase of 1.8 percent, and ther order comes as more benefit cuts loom on the
horizon for military families due to tightening budgets.
1 percent pay
raise latest pinch for troops, veterans struggling to pay bills. President Obama on Monday [12/23/2013] signed an executive order giving
military personnel and civilian federal workers a 1 percent pay raise, the first raise for civilians in four years. But for military families,
it was another hit. Military members had been receiving an annual pay increase of 1.8 percent, and ther order comes as more benefit cuts
loom on the horizon for military families due to tightening budgets.
The Editor says...
The President was on vacation in Hawaii on Monday the 23rd. Did he sign this executive order on the beach or the golf course?
End of the line for the lead bullet?
Regulations, bans force switch to 'green' ammo. When the last bullet-producing lead smelter closes its doors on Dec. 31, it will mark
a major victory for those who say lead-based ammunition pollutes the environment, but others warn 'green' bullets will cost more, drive up copper prices
and do little to help conservation. The bid to ban lead bullets, seen by some as harmful to the environment, started slowly more than a decade ago.
Nero in the White House. Nero "fiddled," so
they say, while Rome burned. Today, this epigram all too accurately describes President Obama's approach to U.S. national security. For five
years, he has resolutely consigned foreign and defense issues to the bottom of his policy agenda, resulting in increasing disarray both domestically and
abroad. The United States needs strategic thinking internationally, and we are getting the opposite.
Marine Could Be Discharged For Warning About
Possible Threat Days Before Deadly Attack. A hearing was held today for a Marine Corps reservist who could be dishonorably discharged for trying
to warn his fellow Marines about an Afghan police chief's links to the Taliban. Maj. Jason Brezler had tried to warn about Afghan Police Chief Sarwar
Jan, a known child predator with ties to the Taliban. Jan was routinely allowed on military bases, but Brezler believed he should not be.
Army to cut up to 4,000 captains and majors.
The U.S. Army is sending roughly 19,000 active-duty captains and majors to a screening board for early separation this spring, the Army Times reported. Up to
20 percent of those screened — approximately 3,800 officers — could be scheduled to leave the service by the Officer Separation Board and
Enhanced Selective Early Retirement Board. Officers with fewer than 18 years of federal active service will have their screening process done by OSB,
and those with more than 18 years of service will see the E-SERB, according to the Army Times.
The Decline and Fall of American
Deterrence. What do Pearl Harbor, the Munich Pact, and Germany's invasion of Poland have in common? The common thread
running through these events is that western democracies' military weakness tempted aggressors to strike. Add to this the fecklessness
of western leaders, who did nothing when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, Germany annexed Austria, and Japan invaded China and murdered
thousands of civilians, and one sees how toxic the witches' brew was. If that's true, then why are we doing it again?
Possible
closing of commissaries worries Charleston-area military families. Navy wife Cleo Lott relies on the Weapons Station commissary
to feed her family of four. It's one of the most coveted perks that goes with being part of the military. And that's why news
that the Pentagon is looking at closing all of its stateside commissaries has her a little rattled.
Under Obama, troops forced
to rely on welfare, holiday charity to make ends meet. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit D.C.-based think
tank, estimates that as many as 340,000 veterans rely on federal or state rental assistance. About 900,000 veterans live on food stamps,
and an additional 5,000 active-duty service members are food stamp recipients.
Dangerous Times: Inspector Clouseau Brings
Peace. This administration is coming to an end. If you take away its corruption and thuggery, its constant scapegoating,
its weird cast of characters, its astronomical spending, its drone killings of terrorists who were supposed to be dead last year, and its
healthcare debacle — everything comes down to imperial overreach. Obama is the biggest gambler with national security in
our history. He looks like Charlie Chaplin carrying stacks of teetering dinner plates, causing chaos on all sides, but never noticing
anything wrong.
Shades of Vietnam: Spike in U.S. troop
deaths tied to stricter rules of engagement. The number of U.S. battlefield fatalities exceeded the rate at which troop strength surged in
2009 and 2010, prompting national security analysts to assert that coinciding stricter rules of engagement led to more deaths. A connection between
the sharp increase in American deaths and restrictive rules of engagement is difficult to confirm. More deaths surely stemmed from ramped-up
counterterrorism raids and the Taliban's response with more homemade bombs, the No. 1 killer of NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Obama directs federal
government triple renewable power use. President Obama directed federal agencies and the military to nearly triple renewable energy
consumption by the end of the decade, setting a target of getting 20 percent of electricity from renewable sources. The move, which comes
through executive order, is the latest in a series of administrative efforts the White House has employed to address climate change through curbing
greenhouse gas emissions. [...] The centerpiece of the president's agenda is proposed emissions rules for new and existing power plants.
The Editor says...
If the President wants the government to use electricity from renewable sources, then let the military bases and government buildings
generate their own power, and leave the reliable fossil-fuel plants running for the rest of us.
Pentagon floats plan to close US
commissaries. The Pentagon is floating a controversial plan to close all U.S.-based commissaries in 2015 as part of a massive
cost-saving effort after more than a decade of war. The commissaries are grocery stores that offer food and other necessities at a
discount to members of the military, their families and veterans. But as Congress tightens the purse strings, the stores could get
caught in the budget battle.
Stars and
Stripes forever? Pentagon may fold historic newspaper. Stars and Stripes — the venerable military
publication that has chronicled the heroism of America's fighting men and women since the Civil War — could be
on the budget-strapped Pentagon's chopping block. The Department of Defense, which subsidizes the newspaper to the
tune of $7.4 million per year, is considering a range of spending cuts that could also affect the Pentagon Channel
and some programming at the American Forces Network.
America after Obama. Obama's decisions to
gut U.S. military strength, including deep reductions of our nuclear arsenal, will be disastrous. If all the reductions in the Pentagon's
budget — some required by the Sequester, which originated in the White House, others planned by Obama and the Obamians — take
effect, the United States will have the fewest operational naval vessels since before World War I, the smallest Air Force in history, and an army
and Marine Corps no longer capable of fighting prolonged wars. A corollary of weakened U.S. military capability is that American influence
in the international arena is much diminished.
Despite Promises, Obama Planning to Close ICBM
Squadron. The Obama administration has drafted a plan to shutter an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) squadron three years
after it assured hesitant lawmakers that the New START U.S.-Russia arms reduction treaty would not lead to deep cuts in the ICBM force. A
new timeline prepared by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon maps out a strategy to eliminate an ICBM
squadron — and destroy its missile silos — by Dec. 5, 2017. An environmental assessment would begin next month.
Why would Obama send American girls into
combat? Under Defense Department mandates, the armed forces are implementing incremental plans to order (not "allow") women into Army and
Marine infantry and special operations forces that attack the enemy. Acquiescent generals insist that training standards will be "the same" for men
and women, but the fine-print "catch" is hidden in plain sight. Footnotes in a June Marine Corps report to Congress stated that physical fitness and
combat fitness Test standards would be "gender-neutral" with "gender-normed" scores that "account for physiological differences between the genders."
In the Marines' new physical fitness test — recently postponed owing to "potential risks" — women will have to complete three
pull-ups. Five more will earn 100 points, but men will have to do 20 to get the same score.
Remaking the Military in the Image of Obama.
The people's savior is giving the heave-ho to military brass who can't quite get with the program, which might be described as inflicting a smothering
political correctness on the nation's armed forces. Political correctness is actually too charitable. What Comrade Obama is committing is
ideological warfare on the traditions and virtues that are at the core of the armed forces — and, in fact, the nation's core. Part and
parcel of this war against the traditional military is the mainstream media-neglected war on faith — Judeo-Christian faith,
that is — among our men and women in uniform.
The feminist campaign to
make weaklings of America's warriors. Feminism is trying to yank the U.S. military in two directions at once. While claiming
that women have no problem meeting the rigorous standards of the SEALs or infantry, advocates of opening these branches to women argue that
female members of the military must be protected from the male sexual predators that, we are assured, are widely represented in the military.
However, they can't have it both ways. Are women "hear me roar" Amazons, or are they fragile flowers who must be protected from "sexual
harassment," encouraged to level the charge at the drop of the hat?
Chaplains
Mocked, Forced out of VA Program for Their Christian Beliefs . In 2012, Lieutenant Commander Dan Klender, a Navy chaplain, and Major Steven
Firtko, a retired Army chaplain, enrolled in the VA's Clinical Pastoral Education Center program in San Diego. [...] The two chaplains charge that they
were ridiculed and taunted by the program's director, Nancy Dietsch, a VA employee with a reputation for antagonism toward evangelical Christians, charged
John Wells, the attorney representing the two chaplains in the suit. "She's been very, very critical of Christians," Wells told Fox News.
"Instead of teaching anything dealing with faith issues, she's dealing with a holistic, humanistic approach. It's the idea that the spirit comes
from within."
Lawsuit: Military
Chaplains Banned From Saying "Jesus". Two Baptist chaplains said they were forced out of a Veterans Affairs chaplain training program
after they refused orders to stop quoting the Bible and to stop praying in the name of Jesus. When the men objected to those demands they were
subjected to ridicule and harassment that led to one of the chaplains leaving the program and the other being ejected, according to a federal lawsuit
filed Friday [11/8/2013].
Lawsuit: Chaplains Banned From Saying
"Jesus". Two Baptist chaplains said they were forced out of a Veterans Affairs chaplain training program after they refused orders to stop
quoting the Bible and to stop praying in the name of Jesus. When the men objected to those demands they were subjected to ridicule and harassment
that led to one of the chaplains leaving the program and the other being ejected, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday [11/8/2013].
The Editor says...
Are there similar restrictions against Islamic, Hindu, Wiccan, or earth-worshiping eco-fruitcake prayers? What if one of the chaplains
prays directly to Barack H. Obama? Would there be a reprimand or a promotion?
Pentagon pushes 680 green projects,
despite money woes. The Defense Department may be facing significant funding cuts, but not to its green energy program. Fully
680 renewable-energy projects are still moving forward as part of President Obama's vision of a military that's run on clean fuel, despite the
spending cutbacks and budget trims that have begun impacting military operations. Among the 680 projects: 357 based on solar
development, 289 based on thermal, 29 on wind and five others that haven't been disclosed but rather labeled as "electricity
generation," The Blaze reported, citing a Defense Department document.
The 'White Poppy President'. The same president, who barely two months
ago tried to keep 80-plus-year-old war veterans from visiting their open-air Washington war memorials, will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at
Arlington National Cemetery on Veteran's Day this Monday. The same president, who is gutting the U.S. military, will host a breakfast to honor
veterans and their families that is closed to the press.
'Pretty Good at Killing'. It has been disclosed
in a recently published book about the 2012 campaign, Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, that the president told aides that he is
"really good at killing people" with drones. I think the president is being far too modest. Drones aren't the half of it. He's really
good at killing lots of things. [...] While making it easier for the enemy to kill our troops, he is also killing the military structure in which they
serve. What used to be a system dedicated to the unyielding defense of our nation has become the president's sandbox for social experimentation
and liberalism. He is purging the ranks of loyal officers, replacing them with those who are prepared to adopt his view of the United States Armed
Forces as a liberal playground. Preparedness has taken a back seat to punishing the military for their successes with disproportionate budget cuts,
making their missions much more difficult, or impossible.
Navy SEALs ordered to remove 'don't
tread on me' Navy Jack from uniforms. The Navy Jack is the 'don't tread on me' flag, one that has earned a revered place in America's naval
history and a beloved place in sailor's hearts, through its use for over two centuries. [...] So why would ranking SEAL commanders ban the historical symbol?
Is the proverbial top bass banning the flag? Is President Obama?
More Distinguished Military
Blasting Administration. Retired brass just blasted the president for "purging" close to 200 officers. Now more retired heroes
charge he is "emasculating" an armed forces whose "morale is at an unprecedented low."
Obama's Military Coup Purges 197 Officers
In Five Years. What the president calls "my military" is being cleansed of any officer suspected of disloyalty to or disagreement with the
administration on matters of policy or force structure, leaving the compliant and fearful.
52 Felons Given 'Routine
Unauthorized Access' to Navy Installations. A DoD official told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday [10/31/2013] that
about 50 convicted felons were given access to Navy installations without the proper checks, and no one has been held accountable. A Sept. 16,
2013 DoD inspector general's report, which was released the same day as the Navy Yard shooting, found that the Navy Commercial Access Control System
(NCACS) "did not effectively mitigate access control risks associated with contractor installation access" because Commander, Navy Installations Command
(CNJC) officials tried to "reduce access control costs."
Pentagon's
Chief Personnel and Readiness Officer: Diversity and Inclusion Critical to Mission Success. Jessica L. Wright, the acting under secretary
of defense for personnel and readiness, said today that the Defense Department must maintain its commitment to diversity and inclusion, which contribute
to mission success. She asserted that diversity helps civilian and military employees perform well because they "represent the nation in our
workforce." The Defense Department not only talks "about diversity in terms of race and gender, and ethnicity, but it is much more than that in
my mind," Wright said. She declared that diversity included "your thought process, how you grew up, [and] what you can add to the greater good
because of your background."
The Editor says...
Most people don't realize that multiculturalism and diversity were invented by Almighty God himself. Multiculturalism and diversity were inflicted
as punishment at the Tower of Babel (Genesis, Chapter 11), in order to stop production overnight and keep everybody from getting anything
done. This approach worked flawlessly, of course, and to this day it still has the same effect, although the effects are not as severe when
mere humans try it. Multiculturalism and diversity add nothing to productivity. Japan is one of the most productive countries in the
world, and it has the least diverse culture. It can also be shown that the people who are most in favor of "diversity" are the same people who
oppose capitalism in favor of socialism. Quod erat demonstrandum!
Report: Deportations plummet in 2013, lowest since
2007. Authorities deported fewer illegal immigrants in fiscal 2013 than at any time since President Obama took office, according to secret
numbers obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies that suggest Mr. Obama's nondeportation policies have hindered removals. Just 364,700 illegal
immigrants were removed in fiscal 2013, according to internal numbers from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement that CIS released
Wednesday [10/30/2013] — down 11 percent from the nearly 410,000 who were deported in 2012.
Gender Neutral Or Combat-Ready Marines?
Its force structure decimated by sequestration and budget cuts, the Marine Corps considers exchanging its proud and honored look for hats similar to the
gendarmes who direct traffic in Paris.
Government Gave Zero
Dark Thirty Filmmakers Classified Info. The alleged intentional leak of classified information to Zero Dark Thirty filmmakers has come back to
haunt the government during the war crimes trial of a Guantanamo Bay detainee. The defense of Ammar al Baluchi, the detainee whose torture experiences
supposedly served as the model for the popular film, is now requesting classified information about the treatment of his client that was provided to filmmakers
but is still currently withheld by the prosecution. The lawyer alleges that the information was provided to the filmmakers to spin a "curated narrative"
in the government's favor and justify enhanced interrogation techniques.
U.S. Marines turn up noses at Obama's new 'girly' hats.
Marines are decrying a new look President Obama has planned for their uniforms — namely, a unisex-style cap that they say looks more French than American,
more "girly" than hard-charging. "We don't even have enough funding to buy bullets and the DoD [Department of Defense] is pushing to spend $8 million on
covers that look like women's hats," one senior Marine said to The New York Post. "The Marines deserve better. It makes them look ridiculous."
Obama wants Marines to wear 'girly' hats. A change to the
Marine Corps' uniform hats could take the hard-nosed Leathernecks from the Halls of Montezuma to the shops of Christopher Street. Thanks to a plan by
President Obama to create a "unisex" look for the Corps, officials are on the verge of swapping out the Marines' iconic caps — known as
"covers" — with a new version that some have derided as so "girly" that they would make the French blush.
Marine Corps Shoots Down Unisex Caps. The Marine
Corps has shot down plans to make male and female leathernecks wear a unisex cap with their dress uniforms. The Corps has been redesigning its female
caps and was exploring the possibility of issuing a single cap for men and women. As we reported earlier Friday, a survey this week was meant to gauge
interest in which of two options would work as a unisex cap — but critics said one new prototype was too feminine.
Air Force Academy may drop 'God' from oath.
The Air Force Academy is considering dropping the phrase "so help me God' from its honor oath after the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) filed a
complaint. The Academy's Honor Review Committee met Wednesday [10/23/2013] to review the oath in response to the MRFF complaint, said Public Affairs
Director Maj. Brus Vidal.
Todd Starnes: Air Force makes 'God' reference optional in
oath. The Air Force Academy has decided to make the phrase "so help me God" optional in its honor code in what it called an effort to "build a culture
of dignity and respect." The decision to make the reference optional came after the Academy's Honor Review Committee met to consider a complaint filed by the
Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
Shocking admission on Army
preparedness: No training the last 6 months. While the president of the United States pitched his crumbling healthcare program like a late-night infomercial
barker, the Army's chief of staff made a shocking admission about national defense. Gen. Ray Odierno told a Washington conference Monday [10/21/2013] that the U.S.
Army had not conducted any training in the last six months of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
Army chief: Just 2 brigades combat-ready.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno revealed this week that just two Army brigades are combat-ready, with budget cuts hampering the military's ability to
train its own troops. The startling comments were made Monday [10/21/2013] at the Association of the U.S. Army conference. Odierno and Army Secretary
John McHugh both addressed the fallout from the budget cuts, as well as the recent partial government shutdown, and appealed to lawmakers to restore some
stability to military funding.
Illegal use of DoD Communications Systems by Obama
Administration. The American Spectator has been provided with the text of a political message sent on Saturday evening, using
Department of Defense communications systems, on behalf of President Obama and Secretary of Defense Hagel. It is addressed to "all US government
employees" and further specified by the DoD sender to go to "all subordinate commands," in compliance with Hagel's call for "the widest possible
distribution."
Obama's
military contempt: The outrageous treatment of Clint Lorance. Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance, a 28-year-old combat leader in the
82d Airborne Division from Celeste, Texas was recently found guilty of two counts of murder in Afghanistan and sentenced to 20 years in Ft.
Leavenworth. The story of First Lieutenant Lorance has not been covered by a single major media source.
Obama's Curious Purge Of The
Military Continues. The firing of two nuclear commanders in a week adds to a body count that suggests we have either the most corrupt
and incompetent general staff in history or our military is being reshaped for other purposes.
Is Obama Creating a Martial-law-ready
Military? Let's start with a hypothetical. Let's say you were a hard-left-wing commander in chief who wanted the military firmly in
your corner. You'd certainly note that our armed forces have been a bastion of conservatism and Christian faith, and you'd know that its members
generally weren't very fond of you. So how would you go about changing this?
Pentagon
unit held 'phony' ceremonies for MIAs, using planes that can't fly. A unit of the U.S. Department of Defense has been holding so-called
"arrival ceremonies" for seven years, with an honor guard carrying flag-draped coffins off of a cargo plane as though they held the remains of missing
American service men and women returning that day from old battlefields. After NBC News raised questions about the arrival ceremonies, the Pentagon
acknowledged Wednesday [10/9/2013] that no honored dead were in fact arriving, and that the planes used in the ceremonies often couldn't even fly but
were towed into position.
JPAC admits to phony ceremonies honoring
'returning' remains. NBC writes that the ceremonies have been known among some of the military and civilian staff at the base as The
Big Lie. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, or JPAC, has come under intense scrutiny in recent months after two scathing reports were
released this summer.
Putting Military Families in Harm's
Way. So the families of service members killed in the line of duty since October 1 will receive death benefits after all.
Last night [10/10/2013], President Obama signed a bill that specifically authorized those payments. But the late-night drama wasn't necessary at all.
Nothing had ever prevented the administration from making those payments.
Obama To Catholic Troops During Shutdown: No Mass!
Federal closure threatens to bar priests not on active duty from conducting services on military installations or from ministering on base, and they risk being arrested if they attempt
to do so. [...] Catholic soldiers killed in battle might not even have a priest available to give the last rites of their church as even the religious freedoms they fought to
protect are sacrificed by a petulant president who has the power to set priorities with the stroke of an executive order pen but refuses to do so.
Obama the hostage-taker. For the first time in US history, a president confessed to deliberately
hurting his country to score points against his enemies. Which brings us to the national disgrace this week in which the Defense Department denied death benefits to the families
of fallen service members. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney insists, with operatic righteousness, that Obama never intended for the 26 families of the fallen to be
denied this aid or to be hindered from retrieving their beloveds' remains from Dover Air Force Base. But Carney is surely lying.
Obama's Attack on Families of Fallen Solders. Until a charitable foundation stepped in to fill the gap, the
Department of Defense (DoD) was more than willing to deny death benefits to the families of fallen soldiers. The Pentagon claimed that a law passed just prior to the government shutdown
allowing the military to be paid did not cover the benefits. In truth, an Obama administration, whose hallmark is selective law enforcement, has relied on the flimsiest of technicalities
to inflict unnecessary pain on families already shattered by the deaths of their sons and daughters.
Congressman Calls for Defense Secretary's Resignation.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) says Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel should resign for failing to ensure that the families of fallen American soldiers received the death benefits to
which they are entitled. "I think Chuck Hagel needs it to think about offering his resignation over this," Hunter told Fox News's Megyn Kelly Thursday night [10/10/2013].
Report: Department of Energy Discriminated Against Veterans.
A new report from federal watchdogs reveals that discrimination against military veterans at the Energy Department and retaliation against whistleblowers who spoke out about
the practice were more widespread than previously believed and could cost taxpayers millions. The report, released Tuesday [10/8/2013] by DOE's inspector general, revealed
that a top legal official explicitly advised human resources officials at the department's Bonneville Power Administration on how to disadvantage veterans in its hiring
practices. BPA then attempted to completely remove two employees from the federal service after they questioned the hiring practices.
The Decline and Fall of National Security. Two unlikely
sets of institutions are playing key roles in the decline of American foreign policy effectiveness: Intelligence agencies and military commands. The CIA and DOD,
agencies that were heretofore above politics have lost their objective moorings. Contemporary guardians of national security have been suborned by partisanship, in the
process, fostering a kind of soft sedition; analytical and operational incompetence.
Obama vs. the Veterans. This incident demonstrates that the government
shutdown is no longer about issues, but is just about politics. The Obama administration is trying to maximize the pain for Americans. It has become evident
that this president is all about ego and spitefulness, not concern.
Shutdown leaves kin of dead soldiers without money
for funerals. Five military servicemembers paid the ultimate sacrifice but their families cannot receive the money they need to bury them or support the children
left behind because of government shutdown.
Making Sense of Insane Military Base
Security. Once again, a U.S. military base has suffered a security breach. Whether it's at Fort Hood or at the Washington Navy
Yard, or elsewhere, family members and the soldiers themselves should never have to endure the fear of not being safe on a U.S. military post.
Yet President Obama eulogized the twelve victims by calling for more gun control.
By
Weakening America, Obama Plays Into Putin's Hands. The dream of American demise didn't expire with the collapse of the USSR, and the dream
of Russian superiority and influence in the world didn't leave the minds of Russian nationalists. By transforming America, the Obama administration,
with the support of progressive journalists, college professors, liberal judges and pop-culture moguls, is actively participating in the realization of
Russia's dreams.
Samantha, Syria and the use of
power. Did you ever wonder why we have been teetering on the brink of war with Syria when virtually no one in America wants
to go to war? The answer can be summed up in two words: Samantha Power. Power is the new American ambassador to the United
Nations and a longtime foreign-policy adviser to President Barack Obama. She is also a dangerously radical proponent of military
intervention in humanitarian crises around the globe.
Sequestration nation: DoD doles out $7 billion in
wind-energy contracts. Why the Obama administration insists upon using the military as a sponsor of what they, rather than the free market, have arbitrarily and
falsely deemed to be practical and cost-effective sources of energy, it pains me to think on — but the point is that the U.S. military is currently choosing to
spend big money on energy sources that do not offer them the biggest bang for their buck. Even better, the Pentagon dished out a similarly sized set of contracts for
solar energy companies last month; and this is all on top the Navy's push to outfit a number of cruisers, destroyers, and fighter jets with biofuel-blended gas.
Three-and-a-half More Years of Obama!
We will not win this round. We have a national security system that is run by wannabe trannies and later-day beatniks. We are operating
under the delusion that major military units can be led in battle by gays, transvestites, and what have you. We have convinced ourselves that the
21st-century world can be mastered by weapons purchased in the 1980s. We have sown the wind. We will reap the whirlwind.
Air Force cracking down on Christians.
Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk found himself at odds with his Lackland Air Force Base commander after he objected to her plans to severely punish an
instructor who had expressed religious objections to homosexuality. During the conversation, his commander ordered him to share his personal views
on homosexuality. "I was relieved of my position because I don't agree with my commander's position on gay marriage," he told me. "We've been
told that if you publicly say that homosexuality is wrong, you are in violation of Air Force policy."
The Age of Obama: The end of the American
military. This week, Nidal Hasan was dishonorably discharged from the Army, three and a half years after he committed treason and mass murder at Ft. Hood.
Hasan was a disaster waiting to happen. Everyone knew it. Hasan was an American in name only. He advertised that his loyalties were to Islam, not to America.
Yet because of political correctness, instead of investigating him and getting him out of the Army, Hasan was allowed to get away with almost anything until he committed mass murder.
This is because Hasan was a Muslim.
Sacrificing Military Women on the Altar of 'Diversity'.
On June 5, 2013, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) approved legislation to address sexual harassment in the military.
Yet what HASC failed to address is the far more important and potentially devastating issue of the Obama administration's determination
to put women in direct ground combat. When the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) asked senior Republican staffers why the
organization's analysis, "Sound Policy for Women in Military," was ignored, the center was told leaders feared being labeled "anti-woman."
In short, little political will exists to oppose Obama's new policies, which will endanger women and military integrity — all
for the sake of "diversity."
Obama's Weakness
Provokes An Aggressive Russia, Say Analysts. As president, Obama has sought to reassure the Russians on many fronts. Unilaterally, he has
slashed the U.S. tactical nuclear weapons arsenal. He has pulled the plug on anti-ballistic missile systems for Poland and the Czech Republic. His
defense budget has plummeted since the last year of the Bush administration.
Obama's Extra-Constitutional Abdication. President Barack Obama's
sudden decision — after a 45-minute Friday walk on the White House grounds — to go to Congress for authorization to intervene in Syria is far
more than a simple, predictable act of accountability avoidance. [...] If he succeeds in getting the congressional authorization he claims he doesn't need, that
maneuver will set the precedent-setting expectation that a president must seek congressional blessing for all military actions.
U.S. needed Iraqi
foothold that prez abandoned. More than 70 years after the start of World War II, America has 100,000 troops stationed at bases
in Germany and Japan. More than 50 years after the cease-fire in Korea, we have nearly 30,000 American military stationed there.
But in Iraq, where we toppled Saddam just a decade ago and oversaw three national elections, there isn't a single American combat soldier left.
A fact President Obama has repeatedly celebrated.
In classified cyberwar against Iran, trail of
Stuxnet leak leads to White House. The Obama administration provided a New York Times reporter exclusive access to a range of high-level national
security officials for a book that divulged highly classified information on a U.S. cyberwar on Iran's nuclear program, internal State Department emails show.
US Troops Begging for Supplies — DOD Turns Blind Eye. The reply came after Rep.
Duncan Hunter sent a letter in June to Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel saying, "Items such as metal detectors, tourniquets, eye protection and gun lubrication —
not to mention the basic necessities like soap, toothpaste, and socks — have all been requested by units in the field. However there are numerous
instances where these items are not supplied by a logistics system that is cumbersome and which can be non-responsive to the war fighter."
The Military Epidemics That Aren't. [Scroll down]
Soldiers, in this view, are no longer seen as models of self-control, courage and patriotism. Instead they are victims and should be treated as patients.
Yet the links between combat, the military and mental health are more complex than the war-as-disease construct allows. Begin with suicides by servicemen and
women, which have increased in recent years — but by dozens of deaths, not in the epidemic fashion that news coverage sometimes seems to suggest.
Airman opposed to gay
marriage files complaint after being transferred. A senior Air Force NCO who says he was punished because of his opposition to gay
marriage this week filed a formal complaint against his commander, claiming she violated his religious beliefs. Senior Master Sgt. Phillip
Monk, a 19-year airman serving at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, claims he was relieved of his duties and reassigned following a heated exchange
over the hot-button social issue.
Airmen Punished for Objecting to Gay Marriage.
A 19-year veteran of the Air Force said he was relieved of his duties after he disagreed with his openly gay commander when she wanted to severely punish an instructor who had
expressed religious objections to homosexuality. "I was relieved of my position because I don't agree with my commander's position on gay marriage," Senior Master Sgt.
Phillip Monk told Fox News. "We've been told that if you publicly say that homosexuality is wrong, you are in violation of Air Force policy."
China
Tests A New ICBM As Obama Guts U.S. Missile Defenses. Beijing tests a mobile missile capable of hitting the continental U.S. and prepares to deploy
ballistic missile submarines that can do the same, while our commander-in-chief slashes our missile defenses.
DOD: Gay Troops Will Get Extra
Time Off to Go to Same-Sex Marriage States and Get Hitched. The U.S. Defense Department announced on Wednesday that it will make "spousal and
family benefits" available no later than Sept. 3, 2013, regardless of sexual orientation, for all service members who can provide a valid marriage
certificate. And what about same-sex military couples who live in a state where same-sex marriage is not allowed? No problem.
Dhimmitude in the US Military? Nowhere is the oppression of religiously
devout Christians and Jews more apparent than within the US military. Our warriors are being attacked by militant atheist progressives who have, ironically, much in common
with devotedly combative Islamists. While it might seem that atheists and Islamists have little in common, both groups share a grim determination to suppress the
religious freedoms of Christians and Jews.
Air Force Says Drag Acts Symbolize Gay Pride.
The U.S. Air Force said that a well-known drag queen group was invited to perform on base during a "Diversity Day" celebration because drag is a "symbol of gay pride and
unity. But the performance sparked outrage among some airmen who called the drag show "totally offensive and inappropriate."
The US military is wasting money on ethanol. Great Green Waste: Are Military Contracts the New Obama Stimulus?
The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest energy consumer in the United States. To meet its energy needs, the Defense Logistics Agency
(DLA) executes contracts to purchase fuel and electricity on behalf of the service branches. These contracts present opportunities for the
federal government to provide de facto subsidies, should they choose to purchase more expensive sources of energy than is necessary. For the
purposes of this report, subsidies are defined as disbursements by the federal government that have an identifiable federal budget impact and are
specifically targeted at energy production. If the government pays more than the fair market value for a good or service, particularly in
a closed-bidding process, this amounts to a subsidy.
Pentagon Looking to Find New Ways
to 'Nurture' Warriors and Women in Combat. Let's stipulate a fact: Most men cannot complete US Marine Corps combat training. Let's stipulate
another fact: Washing out trainees who cannot complete the training is one of the purposes of the training. [...] The Pentagon is trying to integrate women
into front-line combat roles, and it isn't working. Of the six women who have volunteered for combat training, all six have washed out either due to injury
or failing to complete the course. All six.
Pentagon considering affirmative action in combat.
The effort was proposed by Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Niki Tsongas at a recent House Armed Services Committee hearing because so far, she says
training systems do not "maximize the success of women." Though the armed services have promised that combat standards will be the same
regardless of gender, senior officers are considering initially separate training systems.
Christian Air Force chaplain
under fire for reference to atheists. Air Force Lt. Col. Kenneth Reyes, a Christian chaplain stationed in Alaska, was censored for
a line he wrote in his regular "Chaplain's Corner" musings that are posted at the base's online site, and now the Military Religious Freedom
Foundation is saying he should be punished. Fox News reported that Col. Reyes wrote an essay titled "No Atheists in Foxholes: Chaplains
Gave All in World War II."
U.S. Army plans switch
to 'green' bullets. The U.S. Army is taking the expression "get the lead out" quite literally and switching to lead-free,
environmentally-friendly bullets. The Army's Picatinny Arsenal is working on a "green" version of the M80A1 7.62 mm bullet,
which troops are supposed to start being issued in 2014, according to an Army press release.
Obama picks green advocate as Navy energy
chief. Obama on Tuesday nominated Vice Adm. Dennis V. McGinn (Ret.) as the Navy's assistant secretary for energy,
installations and environment. McGinn comes over from the American Council on Renewable Energy, where he was president and chief
executive. The selection signals a continued commitment to green energy within the armed forces, an effort that's irked some
Republicans who argue such initiatives are too pricey.
The PC-ification Of The
FBI. In a testy exchange with Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller reluctantly acknowledged
FBI counterterrorism training materials have been purged of references to "jihad" and "Islam" and that counterterrorism agents have been restricted from
doing undercover investigations at mosques. These outrageous policies likely contributed to the FBI missing signs of radicalization in the Muslim
community — including that of the Tsarnaev brothers in Boston.
Obama's Promise To Win
Afghanistan Now Total Pullout. President Obama's new strategy for what he once called "a war that we have to win" is a "zero
option" of irrevocable defeat. The world's strongest military power can no longer win wars.
But Words Can Never Harm Me.
[Scroll down] About a year ago, Peter Beinart wrote in the Daily Beast, "Egypt Policy Shows How Well Obama Has Managed America's Decline".
He was not writing tongue in cheek. He was really delirious with happiness that things were going so well. Barry Rubin argues some in the
administration actually believe that if you fight political Islamism, it will only make them mean. Now you may laugh at this statement.
But cry at this one: they actually believe this stuff.
Report Details Hostility in U.S.
Military toward Christian Members. A coalition of legislators and religious freedom advocates warned Tuesday [7/9/2013] about the
growing hostility toward Christians serving in the military and called for a federal statute to protect the religious liberty of troops.
The Family Research Council distributed a report, "A Clear and Present Danger: The Threat to Religious Liberty in the Military," at the press
conference on Tuesday [7/9/2012] at the Capitol detailing incidences of that hostility, including the July 27, 2011 cancellation of a
20-year-old ethics course taught at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California because it used Scripture.
Obama's Serial Ineptness. [W]asn't one of
the key selling points of Mr. Obama in 2008 that he would improve America's relations in the world; that he would sit down with other leaders
and reach agreements his predecessor did not; and that Afghanistan was the "good war" that America would prevail in under his inspired
leadership? Instead, America's image in the world is worse than ever, the leaders of many other nations have sheer contempt for the
president, and the Afghanistan war is in the process of being lost. Mr. Obama seems to think a retreat substitutes for a strategy
and that a defeat is the same thing as a victory. He's wrong on both counts.
What, Obama worry?
Can the United States survive the remaining 3½ years of the Obama presidency? [...] I have a growing fear we are on the
verge of a catastrophe. It didn't help that the Army announced it will trim our forces by 80,000 troops over five years
and said more reductions might also be necessary to meet budget reductions. Nor does it help that our president seems
somewhere between indifferent and oblivious to growing global threats.
Army to cut combat brigades at 10 US bases.
In a massive restructuring, the U.S. Army is slashing the number of active duty combat brigades from 45 to 33, and shifting thousands of
soldiers out of bases around the country as it moves forward with a longtime plan to cut the size of the service by 80,000.
Pentagon Extends Benefits to Same-Sex Spouses.
Hours after the Supreme Court ruling, the Pentagon announced that it would move to quickly extend all benefits given to opposite sex spouses to same-sex
couples including medical, dental and housing allowances. Defense officials also said that same sex spouses would have the same rights to be buried
alongside war veterans buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Another detriment to morale: U.S. Army Restricts Access To
'The Guardian' Website. The Monterey County (Calif.) Herald has a great scoop: "The Army admitted Thursday [6/27/2013]
to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's Herald, but Armywide."
In simple terms: If you're accessing the Internet at an Army facility across the country, you would not be able to access parts, if not all,
of the website for the British newspaper.
Pentagon's LGBT 'Pride Month' Comes With a Poster.
On Tuesday, June 25, the U.S. Defense Department will give special recognition to "gay, lesbian and bisexual servicemembers" — as well as gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender civilian workers — for their "dedicated service to our country."
The Obama Age of Proliferation. Mr. Obama returned
this week to Berlin to give his long-promised speech laying out his plans to rid the world of nuclear weapons. His idea is to remove those weapons
initially and primarily from American hands. North Korea and Iran each got a single line in his speech, which is at least more than he gave to
China, which is investing heavily in the world's third largest nuclear arsenal.
Navy Captain Guns Down Biofuels. [Scroll
down] Now comes one of the Navy's best and brightest, Captain T.A. Ike Keifer. In March, Keifer, an aviator who has been
deployed seven times and spent 21 months in Iraq, published a scathing indictment of the biofuels sector in Strategic Studies
Quarterly, the U.S. Air Force's most-prestigious journal.
Obama
Directs DoD to Acknowledge Nuke Attack Isn't Likely, So Cut Arsenal. President Obama used his speech before the
Brandenburg Gate this morning to tout further planned reductions to the U.S. nuclear arsenal. [...] "The U.S. intent is to seek
negotiated cuts with Russia so that we can continue to move beyond Cold War nuclear postures," the White House said.
Soldier Faces
Charges For Reading Conservative Books. A member of the U.S. Army Band says he's being reprimanded for having the wrong
bumper stickers on his car, serving politically incorrect food at a party and reading books by conservative authors.
Obama
administration: Some religions are more equal than others. The Obama administration "strongly objects" to a proposed
House amendment to the defense authorization bill which would require, in the words of its sponsor, Rep. John Fleming, R-La., "the
Armed Forces to accommodate 'actions and speech' reflecting the conscience, moral, principles or religious beliefs of the member."
Fox News has the story. Fleming points to evidence that Christian service members and chaplains are being penalized for expressing
their faith.
Breaking:
Obama Threatens Veto of Religious Protection for Military. [Scroll down] In other words, Obama says he will
veto any bill that forbids his appointees or officers from telling a soldier that he cannot mention Jesus during prayer or have
a Bible on his desk, or that keeps those appointees from telling a chaplain (who is an ordained clergyman) what religious teachings
he is allowed to give in worship services, or what spiritual counseling he can give to another soldier.
Sex and the Military.
For thousands of years, people around the world had the common sense to realize that putting young men and young women together in
military operations was asking for trouble, not only for these young people of both sexes, but for the effectiveness of military
forces entrusted with the fate of nations. Yet, in these politically correct times, civilian leaders who increasingly have no
experience whatever in the armed forces are far more willing to try to micro-manage the military than back in the days when most
members of Congress and most Presidents had served in the military.
Ignorance is strength! Air Force Bans
Personnel from Reading News Stories Reporting NSA Scandal. The Air Force's 624th Operations Center sent an e-mail with a NOTAM
(Notice to Airmen) that prohibits them from accessing and reading news stories related to the current National Security Agency snooping
controversy on the Air Force's NIPRNET (Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router Network) systems.
U.S. Gives Saudi Airlines
'Unrestricted' Access to American Skies. The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed an Open Skies agreement that
will "permit unrestricted air service by the airlines of both countries between and beyond the other's territory." The
agreement means Saudi airlines may fly from any point in the kingdom to any point in the United States, and that U.S. airlines
may fly from any point here to any airport in Saudi Arabia.
Soldier
Told Not to Read Levin, Limbaugh or Hannity in Uniform. A veteran member of the U.S. Army Band said he is facing
retribution and punishment from the military for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on his car, reading books written by conservative
authors like Mark Levin and David Limbaugh, and serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at his promotion party. Master Sgt. Nathan
Sommers, a 25-year Army veteran and conservative Christian based at Fort Myer in Washington, believes his outspoken opposition
to gay marriage prompted higher-ups to take a closer look at his beliefs.
Army Punishes Soldier who
Served Chick-fil-A. An Army master sergeant was punished after he hosted a promotion party and served Chick-fil-A sandwiches
in honor of the Defense of Marriage Act. The unidentified soldier was investigated, reprimanded, threatened with judicial action and
given a bad efficiency report, according to the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty.
Soldier
Who Read Conservative Books Now Faces Charges. A member of the U.S. Army Band who said he was reprimanded for having
anti-Obama bumper stickers on his personal car, serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at a party and reading books written by conservative
authors like Sean Hannity is now facing Article 15 charges — which cropped up shortly after he went public with his
complaints. Master Sgt. Nathan Sommers, a decorated soloist with the Army Band, is being charged under a federal law that
permits commanding officers to conduct non-judicial proceedings for minor offenses.
Air Force Removes Video
that Mentions God. The Pentagon directed an Air Force Base to remove a video tribute to First Sergeants because it mentioned
the word 'God' and might be offensive to atheists or Muslims, Fox News has learned. The tribute was created by a chaplain at Joint
Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The chaplain wrote a poem titled, "God Created A First Sergeant." It was later adapted into a
video with a narration. First Sergeants are senior non-commissioned officers who look after enlisted members.
Report: Leon Panetta revealed
classified SEAL unit info. Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed the name of the Navy SEAL unit that
carried out the Osama bin Laden raid and named the unit's ground commander at a 2011 ceremony attended by "Zero Dark Thirty"
filmmaker Mark Boal.
What
about these leaks, Mr. Holder? In light of revelations that the Obama IRS has been targeting conservative groups, it is
understandable that many on the right wonder if Fox News came in for special scrutiny by the Obama Justice Department in the recent leak
investigation. But let's not forget that the real scandal here is the serial disclosures of highly classified information by senior
Obama officials — leaks that have done immense damage to our national security.
Air Force Removes
"Inspirational" Painting. An inspirational painting that referenced a Bible verse has been removed from a dining hall at
Mountain Home Air Force Base after an anti-religion group filed a complaint, Fox News has learned. The painting featured a
medieval crusader and referenced Matthew 5:9, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation called the painting "repugnant" and an "overt display of Christian nationalism."
A Gender-Neutral Army. The proposal to put women into
combat is a transparently bad idea for reasons of common sense. Without an ongoing conflict and with deep cuts to the military, there is no
shortage of manpower that requires desperate measures and compromised standards. There is no reasonable reason for it all except the need to
transform the military from a warfighting force into a beacon of liberal values.
DOD
ignores judge, cuts physical therapy for soldiers' disabled children. Defense Department (DOD) officials decided to stop
covering a certain form of physical therapy for the disable children of military members, despite an administrative judge's ruling that
the treatment is covered under the law. "For my daughter, this therapy means life, death or some horrible surgery, but she's not
alone — there are 27 other military families who use the center where Kaitlyn goes," Jennifer Samuels told Military Times.
Obama's Drone War. Drone
operators — like most military people — work long hours under considerable stress. But they are
non-combatants. Their lives are not at risk, and they don't spend nights hunting terrorists in dark places. They
don't, like the Marines, patrol trails and village paths in Afghanistan, braving Taliban fire and IEDs. But as befits
Obama's video game war, drone pilots are now eligible for a combat-related medal. The military awards many medals for
bravery in combat, and many more for meritorious non-combat service. But the new Distinguished Warfare medal, to be
awarded to drone operators and cyberwar experts, seems to be neither one nor the other.
Pentagon
recognizes transgender service members for [the] first time. The Pentagon for the first time has officially recognized transgender
service members in a significant step being hailed by the LGBT community. The acknowledgement came in the form of a letter to veteran and
transgender activist Autumn Sandeen confirming that the Navy had updated its records to show she is a woman.
Denying American
soldiers the faith of their fathers. For multitudes of our nation's defenders, the practice of religious faith is
foundational to life itself. In a combat setting, I have seen and experienced the hope a military chaplain's religious message
and prayers bring to a unit mourning the loss of a fallen hero and comrade. I know religious community, worship opportunities,
prayer and access to pastoral care are key to the resilience of our war fighters and directly affects their capability to carry out
the mission bestowed upon them by their country. That is why I am so disturbed and appalled at what appears to be an increasing
effort to restrict the free exercise of religion within the military and completely secularize the public square.
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Congress Members Demand Hagel Explain Meeting with Anti-Christian Extremist. Monday morning [5/13/2013], Congressmen
Steve Scalise and John Fleming — both Republicans representing districts in Louisiana — sent a letter signed
by 59 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon, demanding answers
regarding Pentagon officials meeting with an anti-Christian extremist.
Open Secrets. The Pentagon held internal talks on declassifying sensitive
missile defense technology that it plans to share with Russia as part of the Obama administration's efforts to assuage Moscow's opposition to
European defenses. Republicans in both the House and Senate plan to block any technology declassification for missile defense technology
in the current defense authorization bill and other legislation. Legislative mark up on the authorization bill begins this week.
Critics say giving Russia classified data would undermine the effectiveness of missile defenses, which have cost taxpayers more than $100 billion
since the 1980s.
How Obama Betrayed America.
Far from shouldering his responsibility as the commander-in-chief of America's global War on Terror and embracing it as this
generation's equivalent of the Cold War, Obama showed his distaste for the entire enterprise by dropping the term "War on Terror" and
replacing it with an Orwellian phrase — "overseas contingency operations." Minimizing the Islamist threat to the
United States is not an oversight of the Obama administration; that is its policy.
Pentagon:
Soldiers who spread faith may be prosecuted. Soldiers who promote their faith can be prosecuted under military
law, the Pentagon said in a brief statement released to the media. "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the
Department of Defense," the statement to Fox News stated. "Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a
case-by-case basis." The statement comes on the heels of a Breitbart report about Pentagon officials who met with Mikey Weinstein,
the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, to shape policies that prevent active duty members from sharing faith.
At the same time... Obama: 'All of Us Have the Freedom to
Pray and Exercise Our Faiths Openly'. "All of us have the freedom to pray and exercise our faiths openly," Pres. Obama declared while
proclaiming today a National Day of Prayer — just as news that the Pentagon may court martial soldiers who share their faith is making
headlines. In declaring May 2, 2013 a National Day of Prayer, Obama affirmed that "all of us" have the legal right to "practice our faith
as we see fit" — even "in fellowship".
Radicalizing the Military. There have been few sanctuaries of
American values as steadfast as the American armed forces. [...] Presently, however, they are under threat from within, and one cannot help but notice that our
military is being forced, against centuries of American tradition, morals and example, to become a reflection of the left. This appears to be part of the
plan to fundamentally transform the United States, and it carries dire consequences for our long-term survival.
Army forsakes combat hero Lt. Col.
Matthew Dooley for Muslims. The U.S. Army has further punished Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley, a highly respected and decorated officer in the wake of
Muslim groups complaining about the approved course he taught on radical Islam at National Defense University.
Air Force Recruits Chaplains From
Muslim Brotherhood Front Group. The U.S. Air Force has confirmed to The Clarion Project that it paid nearly $5,000 for advertisements in the magazine
of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing trial that was also labeled a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity
by the government. The Air Force said it would continue to consider paying ISNA for ads.
Pentagon: No, we won't
court-martial Christians who talk about their religion. Christians in the military are allowed to discuss their faith, a Defense Department official
said in a statement contradicting reports that such behavior could lead to court-martial. "Service members can share their faith (evangelize) but must not
force unwanted, intrusive attempts to convert others of any faith or no faith to one's beliefs (proselytization)," Navy Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen wrote in an email
to the Marine Corps Times.
New DHS, DOJ Policy Helps Insane
Illegals Escape Deportation, Detention. A new policy issued by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice Department (DOJ) providing new
"safeguards" and "enhanced protections" against deportation and detention for illegal immigrants with "serious mental disorders" is already having an impact.
Despite sequester, DOD signs
contract for $59/gallon green jet fuel. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently warned that sequestration would cause "suspension of important
activities, curtailed training, and could result in furloughs of civilian personnel" but the spending cuts haven't killed the green fuels program, as the
Pentagon has continued purchasing renewable fuel at $59 per gallon. "In March, Gevo entered into a contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to supply
the U.S. Army with 3,650 gallons of renewable jet fuel to be delivered by the second quarter of 2013," Gevo announced this week in its first
quarter financial report.
The Editor says...
Compare $59 per gallon
with the price of jet fuel in your neighborhood.
Pentagon Consults Anti-Christian Extremist for Religious Tolerance Policy. Many media outlets are
silent on this disturbing new alliance between fanatical secularists and leaders in the Pentagon appointed by President Barack Obama and Secretary Chuck
Hagel, under which the U.S. military would officially consult with someone with such foaming-at-the-mouth passionate hostility toward traditional Christians,
including Evangelicals and devout Catholics. The military — America's most heroic and noble institution — includes countless
people of faith, and this represents a radical departure from the U.S. military's warm embrace of people of faith in its ranks.
Are We Being Compromised by Barack Obama's Murky
Past? With the Obama administration presiding over the hollowing out of our military forces and prepared to further weaken our strategic nuclear posture,
our adversaries are being emboldened to challenge us in a number of areas. [...] We are led by a man who does not believe in American exceptionalism or our capitalist
foundation. His lead-from-behind strategy has forfeited the initiative to our adversaries.
The 'Public Safety' Follies.
It has now been reported by Fox's Megyn Kelly that the FBI's interrogation of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was
short-circuited when the Justice Department arranged for him to be given a presentment hearing in the hospital. In point of fact,
it was not the hearing that caused the suspension of vital intelligence-gathering. It was the Obama Justice Department's decision
over the weekend immediately to file a criminal charge against Tsarnaev.
Army scraping
off biblical reference from weapons scopes. For years, weapons scopes supplied to the Army by a company called Trijicon
("Brilliant Arming Solutions™") have carried serial numbers ending in JNB:12 [sic] and 2COR4:6. To the biblically untutored, they
appeared to be just a continuation of an alphanumeric sequence. But to people familiar with the Bible and citations therefrom,
these sequences signify Bible verses.
Army Removes Bible
Reference from Scopes. The U.S. Army is directing troops to remove a Bible inscription that a vendor etched into the
serial numbers of weapon scopes, Fox News has learned. Soldiers at Fort Wainwright in Alaska told Fox News they received a
directive to turn in their scopes so the Bible references could be removed.
"Obama Will Let Me Go".
Linda Vickers, who owns a ranch in Brooks County, which is Ground Zero for the immigration debate, pins the blame directly on talk of 'amnesty' and
a 'path to citizenship' for people who entered the U.S. illegally. She recalls one man being arrested on her ranch not long ago.
"The Border Patrol agent was loading one man up, and he told the officer in Spanish, 'Obama's gonna let me go'." Border Patrol agents
report that immigrants are crossing the border, and in some cases surrendering while asking, "Where do I go for my amnesty?"
The U.S. Air Force as you know it no longer exists:
beginning today, 17 combat units grounded. According to internal documents obtained by Air Force Times, beginning on Apr. 9,
2013, the U.S. Air Force will begin grounding front line combat units as a consequence of sequestration and the need to deal with budget cuts.
Seventeen squadrons belonging to the various U.S. Air Force commands are going to be affected by the stand down order.
GOP House to Vote on
CR Allowing Obama to Continue Paring Back Border Patrol. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on
Thursday [3/21/2013] to adopt a set of Senate-approved amendments to the continuing resolution to fund the government for the rest
of this fiscal year that gives the Obama administration the discretion to slightly decrease the number of Border Patrol agents.
That could make 2013 the second year in a row when the administration has decreased the size of the Border Patrol, according to
official data released by the Border Patrol itself.
One way to weaken the military is to diminish morale. Administration Unleashes Food
Police on the U.S. Military. U.S. military bases are traditionally outfitted with some of the comforts of home —
including comfort food. The naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for example, has McDonald's, KFC, Starbucks, Subway, an Irish pub with
notorious fried pickles, and multiple bars. Now, the food police are closing in at the Department of Defense, with similar language
that preceded school menu crackdowns.
One way to weaken the military is to have them do "busy work." Climate
Change: Key mission for the US Navy? It's troubling that the top officers of our Navy have accepted the misguided
theory of man-made climate change. [...] Not only is the Navy concerned about climate change, they are attempting to do something
about it. Both the Navy and the Air Force have established goals to use a 50/50 blend of biofuel and petroleum-based
fuel for planes and ships. Navy plans call for establishment of a "Green Strike Group" task force by 2016, fueled by the biofuel
blend, and for alternative fuels to power half of all energy consumption by 2020.
Military
Doesn't Need To Worry About Climate Change. The commander of America's Pacific forces says he knows what the top security
risk is in that region. No, it's not China. Nor is it North Korea. It's climate change. Yes, this is embarrassing.
Top US Admiral: Mythical Global Warming Is Top Military Threat. Fortunately,
it doesn't matter that the Marines are evidently running out of bullets, because the main threat our military will address under the
direction of moonbats is impervious to small arms fire. That threat is the debunked hoax formerly known as global warming.
Climate Change Is the Biggest Threat in the Pacific, Says Top U.S.
Admiral. North Korea just annulled the 1953 armistice ending its war with South Korea. China and Japan are locked in a
dispute over an island chain. But the greatest long-term threat to the peace of East Asia and Pacific Ocean — the part of
the world at the heart of the Obama administration's aspirational defense strategy — is climate change, according to the
admiral in charge of U.S. military operations there.
Incidentally, global
warming stopped, all by itself, in 1998.
Under Obama,
Veterans Wait 2000% Longer for Disability Benefits. Obama Inc's standard policy seems to be screwing veterans.
Between the cuts to veteran health care via Tricare, education funding and mass firing of military personnel while handing out
billions of dollars to his backers, Obama has inflicted catastrophic damage on countless military families.
Good riddance to a medal.
This administration certainly loves drones, but even that ardent passion has limits. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday [3/12/2013]
put a stop to production of a medal that was to be awarded to drone operators, and not a moment too soon.
Hagel
orders halt to production of drone pilot, cyberwarrior medal. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the military to stop
production of a controversial new medal pending a 30-day study of whether the award for drone pilots and cyberwarriors should outrank
medals given for battlefield bravery.
Rough Times Coming for America.
In Washington, D.C., it is often necessary to restate the obvious. For that reason, I recently wrote a column for NRO explaining why
conservatives should be for a strong national defense. I also pointed out one of the great ironies of the last twenty years:
the bigger the federal government has become, the less well it has performed its primary constitutional function of defending the
country. In particular, over the last two years, our government has cut a trillion dollars from the next ten years of defense
budgets.
World
Citizenship Trumps Defense Under Obama. We're "not just" Americans, says our new secretary of state, but "citizens of
the world." And globalism comes before "protecting the country from catastrophic attack," says our top general.
Bob Woodward: Obama Is Showing 'A Kind Of
Madness I Haven't Seen In A Long Time'. The Washington Post's Bob Woodward ripped into President Barack Obama on "Morning
Joe" today [2/27/2013], saying he's exhibiting a "kind of madness I haven't seen in a long time" for a decision not to deploy an aircraft
carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns. "Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, 'Oh, by the way,
I can't do this because of some budget document?'" Woodward said.
The
Real Obama Agenda — the Destruction of US Nuclear Defense. The destruction of the US nuclear deterrent
and the American military has been Moscow's, Beijing's and Havana's number one dream for decades. It is what Obama's communist
mentors such as Frank Marshall Davis, Alice Palmer and Bill Ayers, have always worked relentlessly towards. Now their protege
has the power to make that hellish fantasy a reality. At last some in Washington seem to be taking the US' looming national
suicide seriously.
The
5 Biggest Insults to American Manhood by the Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan. As West spells out in frustrating
detail, the nation-building policies of the last two administrations have made welfare clients rather than allies out of Pakistani
villages. Even if you think that counterinsurgency programs rather than counterterrorist missions are a wise policy, all
carrot and no stick is doomed to fail.
The
disturbing pattern: Obama rids America's military of yet another top general. It's a developing pattern of this
Obama White House. Barack Obama cashiered yet another battle-seasoned American general Tuesday [2/19/2013], even as the
war in Afghanistan continues along with numerous other serious global threats to United States security. This is the
fourth senior officer Obama has forced from the country's service.
Commander in Chief Wages War on the Moral Law.
The ultimate purpose of the U.S. military is simple: Defend the God-given liberty of Americans. Yet today we have a president who is using his
power as commander in chief to wage war against the moral truth that makes liberty possible. Last week, outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta executed
a directive from President Obama that requires the military to treat cohabitating homosexuals as if they were married couples. Panetta did so in a
memorandum he sent to the secretaries of the military departments and to the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
Not fighting back Vs. China's
cyber-attacks. Our military and intelligence services know the situation has gone beyond the Chinese preparing for cyber-war:
Beijing's already waging war against us. It's not that we can't fight back. We have stunning, close-held capabilities to
respond with punishing cyber-strikes of our own. We have the intelligence. We have the targets. But the order never comes.
Warhead cuts coming.
President Obama's plan to carry out a new round of nuclear-warhead cuts will be announced soon, U.S. officials say.
But Don't Rule Out Malice. There is enough evidence of
malice in American politics to write a book, but for brevity let's just look at the decision to have women serve in every combat specialty in the military.
Where did the impetus come from for that change? Who is asking to allow women to serve in combat specialties? Were there marches all over the
U.S. with millions of women demanding the right to go into combat? [...] Well, if there was no demand from, well... anyone to have American women serving
on the front lines in combat, why did American politicians make a new policy requiring just that, even though it is very unpopular and detrimental to our
combat effectiveness?
Obama aims to shrink US nuclear arsenal. President Barack Obama wants to sharply
reduce the size of the nation's already-reduced nuclear deterrent force, according to information leaked to The New York Times.
"White House officials are looking at a cut that would take the arsenal of deployed weapons to just above 1,000 ... [down from]
about 1,700," said the report, which is based on a briefing given by an "official who was involved in the [White House] deliberations."
Heterosexuals
Need Not Apply: DOD Extends Benefits Only to Gay Unmarried 'Partners'. Outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has unilaterally
issued a directive stating that the U.S. military will now extend certain benefits to unmarried domestic partners that were formerly reserved for
married couples — but will only do so if the domestic partners certify in writing to the Department of Defense that they are of the
same sex. Heterosexual unmarried partners do not qualify for the benefits — and thus are treated unequally by Panetta's
directive on the basis of their sexual orientation.
This is the fruit of Obama's weakness and timidity: Bear Bombers Over Guam. Two Russian nuclear-armed
bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow's growing strategic assertiveness
toward the United States. The Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers were equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles
and were followed by U.S. jets as they circumnavigated Guam on Feb. 12 local time — hours before President Barack
Obama's state of the union address.
Russians Push Reset
Button — Circle Guam With Bombers. In March 2009 Hillary Clinton announced that the Obama Adminstration was
going to push the reset button with the Russians. [...] This week the Russians pushed their own reset button. They
circled Guam in nuke bombers.
Obama
Fires 20,000 Marines, But Sends $700 Million to Palestinian Terrorists. I recall Obama talking a lot about "Nation-Building
at Home" instead of abroad, but like every other word that comes out of his mouth, that was another lie. While Barack Hussein Obama
is firing 20,000 Marines as part of his massive purge of the United States military to "save money", he's also fighting to send
$700 million to the terrorists of the Palestinian Authority.
Report: White House
set to cut nuclear arsenal by one-third. President Obama is poised to sign off on a new internal review of U.S. nuclear weapons strategy that
would reduce the arsenal by one-third, resulting in billions in savings to the Pentagon and Energy Department. The recommended reductions were included
in a draft version of a classified decision directive compiled by top defense and national security officials inside the White House, according to a report by
the Center for Public Integrity issued Friday [2/8/2013].
Dreams From Our Fathers: Obama Resigns.
[Scroll down] Because of economic weakness America cannot project at will its military power with naval and armed forces in
strategic locations like it used to do; the resulting vacuum is producing a growing reaction by foreign militant forces eager and
willing to take advantage of our reticence. This is all so obvious, it is inconceivable it hasn't been directly planned by
this administration and its consultants visible and invisible.
Big Job: Wrong Man. [Chuck Hagel] did so badly in the confirmation
hearings that, as Stephen Hayes writes, "any senator who takes the advise-and-consent role seriously had to have real concerns about [Hagel's] basic competence."
Still, presidents are entitled to appoint the people they want, you think, even when they are, manifestly, not the best possible choice or even up to the job.
Immigration Law
Enforcement Put On ICE By Obama. A federal judge rules that border agents can proceed with a lawsuit challenging the
constitutionality of DHS directives ordering the agents to break the law — or have their careers threatened.
ICE Is Not Allowed to Enforce
Immigration Law. ICE cannot arrest aliens unless they have committed a felony. It is basically legal to enter the
country illegally. ICE is prohibiting agents from enforcing immigration law.
America Gives Up. Who's going to fight to the
death to protect the home front when the hottest girls are in the next bunk? Of course, it only makes sense to send co-eds to fight
if you've already given up on the concept of victory, which, in case you haven't noticed, we most definitely have.
Panetta
to propose military pay cut after Obama raised federal officials pay. Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reportedly
believes the military should receive a pay cut in order to respond to the budget cuts facing the Pentagon — a position that
might strengthen the Republican push to reverse President Obama's executive order raising the salary of Vice President Joe Biden and other
federal officials.
Why is Obama Arming
Enemies? Alas, President Obama appears determined to repeat Jimmy Carter's mistakes. Giving Turkey the F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter is bad enough. While Turkey was part of the consortium that built the fuselage, what Turkey now demands is the
software codes and keys to the technology which make that fighter jet the platform upon which the next generation of American air
power will rest.
Chuck Hagel's
Desire To Get Rid Of All Nukes Is Dangerous. Americans who are concerned about traditional freedoms and the Second Amendment
have no difficulty understanding the message of the popular bumper strip: "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
It should be just as easy to grasp the corollary: If nukes are outlawed, only terrorist countries will have nukes. But
somehow, Barack Obama and Chuck Hagel don't get it. In a 2007 campaign speech, Obama promised: "Here's what I'll say as
president: America seeks a world in which there are no nuclear weapons." Chuck Hagel is listed as one of six directors
of a dangerous group called "Global Zero U.S. Nuclear Policy Commission."
Obama's War on the Troops. Secretary of Defense Leon
Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a 1 percent increase next year due to "budget
uncertainties" related to sequestration, CNN reports. [...] Last year, the Obama administration's proposed defense budget
called for cuts to the military's healthcare benefits program, TRICARE, requiring military members, families, and retirees
to pay more for their health care, as the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Oppose Brennan for CIA Director.
To cut to the chase, a country that was serious about its national security would never put John Brennan in charge of its premier intelligence
service. Of course, it is by no means clear that the United States is any longer a serious country in this regard.
Girls Just Wanna Have Guns. Sources say outgoing
Secretary of Defense Panetta will announce his decision to permit female soldiers to participate in combat roles starting later in 2013. Special
units like the SEALS and the Army's Delta Force, will have until 2016 to document why they should qualify for an exemption to the new ruling.
While some women may be able to come up to the mark achieved routinely by male inductees, most simply won't. How many women wrestlers, miners,
and construction workers are filing their tax returns, even in 2013?
Full Throttle
Ahead: US Tips Global Power Scales with Fracking. The United States is sitting on massive natural gas and oil reserves that have
the potential to shift the geopolitical balance in its favor. Worries are increasing in Russia and the Arab states of waning influence
and falling market prices.
Poll:
17 percent of Marines would quit if women are moved into combat positions. According to the Associated Press, male Marines listed
fears of being falsely accused of sexual harassment, fraternization, other Marines getting preferential treatment, and having to deal with pregnancy
or personal issues that could affect the unit before they are sent to the battlefield.
Terrible Destruction is Being Done to Our Armed Forces And to Our Country by Modern Liberalism.
Sodomy was a crime that was strictly enforced in our military services, until the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy of the Clinton administration allowed
closeted homosexuals into the military forces. Under President Barack Hussein Obama, men and women who openly engage in sodomy were welcomed into
the service. Men and women in the services, who did not believe in the vile acts of sodomy, were muzzled, and prohibited from speaking out
about it. Now it has been announced that women will be allowed to serve in combat, along with men. This will greatly reduce the
effectiveness and power of our military forces. It will also greatly reduce the morale and morality in our armed services.
Will Chuck Hagel Be Obama's Pentagon
Downsizer-In-Chief? Chuck Hagel's record in the Senate is a problem, but just as troubling is his failure to explain how he'll keep America
strong within an administration that's bent on shrinking the military.
Maybe Mr. Hagel didn't know there would be a confirmation hearing. Hagel in the Headlights. Former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel went
through a whole day of questioning in his quest to be the next Secretary of Defense by delivering fumbling, nearly incoherent remarks, flip-flopping on his long
record of opposition to Israel and toughness against terrorists (including Iran) faster than a freshly-caught fish.
'Equality' on the Battlefield.
Today's adherents of heroic fantasy have decreed the battlefield can be a gender-neutral zone reflective of the Left's domestic agenda
for gender "equality." The daydream is that women and men can act as interchangeable units on the battlefield. The
eradication of the differences between the sexes the Left is seeking to achieve in civilian society is to be applied to the U.S.
military, which is now expected to embrace a sort of psychological Lamarckianism that insists men and women can by sheer positive
thinking — "I can be anything I want to be" — overcome the natural limitations of the female sex by an
act of will.
Common sense, emotion and women
in combat. The recent decision by outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta to allow women to serve in front-line
combat units is fraught with problems, and no one in the administration or at the Department of Defense seems to be considering them.
Unfit for Combat. The United States Marine Corps is set to shed more
than 20,000 active duty positions in the coming years and have already commenced a process meant to force some senior officers into an
early retirement. The Marines are on course to cut around 4,000 positions a year through 2017, decreasing the total number of
Marines to 182,100 from its peak last year of 202,100, according to a major scale-down order that was quietly issued last year.
Defense Department
Expands Women's Combat Role. Following a unanimous recommendation by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Leon E.
Panetta today announced the end of the direct ground combat exclusion rule for female service members. Army Gen. Martin E.
Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs chairman, joined Panetta at a Pentagon news conference in announcing the policy change. The secretary
also announced that the service branches will continue to move forward with a plan to eliminate all unnecessary gender-based barriers to
service.
The Editor says...
This is unmitigated sophistry. It appears to be an effort by the Defense Secretary to take credit for solving a problem that
doesn't exist. How many "unnecessary gender-based barriers" could there be — unless he's talking about reverse
discrimination, which I presume he is not.
Dangerous Times: Gimme a General Who
Won't Fight! General James Mattis is being fired for insisting on complete contingency planning, according to Pentagon reporter
Tom Ricks. Truth-telling isn't welcome in this administration, and that means big trouble ahead. General Mattis and the military
understand that. The general insisted on full planning for all predictable outcomes. Obama is a gambler, and he doesn't want to
think about what might happen if his wild gambles don't pay off. He is amazingly overconfident. General Mattis is a thinker.
He is a responsible combat leader. The differences are huge.
Trashing Tricare. The Obama administration's proposed defense budget calls
for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers' benefits untouched.
The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is
designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare's state-run insurance exchanges.
Military
and Society Threatened by Women in Combat. The first line of attack in political battles is language. Getting people to
phrase things your way is the first step to getting them to think your way. In the foggy mess of the debate over women in combat,
you will see media references to a "ban" being "lifted." Bans are bad. Lifting bans is good. Therein lies the bias
strangling this issue in the dominant media culture.
Women Serving in
Combat Positions Is a Batty Idea. When the government mandates acceptance into a job/work force scenario, standards must be lowered
to accommodate the numbers. Most females are not as strong as men. This will be a direct issue in combat. If you have a
5'10" male weighing 200 pounds, he will weigh between 250-275 pounds by the time he has donned a full combat load. How
many women, after being hit by an IED (improvised explosive device), could drag 275 pounds out of a burning vehicle while drawing fire?
Military leaders lift ban on women in
combat roles. U.S. military leaders on Thursday formally lifted the ban on women serving in combat positions, with Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta saying women have become an "integral part" of the military and have already demonstrated their willingness to
fight during the wars of the last decade. "It's clear to all of us that women are contributing in unprecedented ways to the
military's mission of defending the nation," Panetta said.
Army Removes Crosses,
Steeple from Chapel. The U.S. military ordered soldiers to remove a cross and a steeple from atop a chapel and to board
up cross-shaped windows at a remote American forward operating base in Afghanistan. The removal of Christian symbols from the chapel
at Forward Operating Base Orgun-E came after a solider complained — leading American Atheists president David Silverman to
send a letter to the Pentagon.
The Reality That Awaits Women in Combat.
Most people seem to believe that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have merely involved driving out of a forward operating base, patrolling
the streets, maybe getting in a quick firefight, and then returning to the forward operating base and its separate shower facilities and
chow hall. The reality of modern infantry combat, at least the portion I saw, bore little resemblance to this sanitized view.
Coed Combat Units. For over two decades,
I have been arguing against the idea of placing American women in combat or in support positions associated with direct ground combat.
I base my position on three factors. First, there are substantial physical differences between men and women that place the latter at a
distinct disadvantage when it comes to ground combat. Second, men treat women differently than they treat other men. This can
undermine the comradeship upon which the unit cohesion necessary to success on the battlefield depends. Finally, the presence of women
leads to double standards that seriously erode morale and performance. In other words, men and women are not interchangeable.
Women in Combat: Why Did
Obama Avoid Congress? The most curious thing about outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's decision this week to allow women
to assume combat roles in the military was the timing. It was announced just as departing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was testifying
on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi attack — and came without any advance notification to Congress, much to the annoyance of Republicans
on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The Diversity Cult's Attack on the
Military. Center for Military Readiness (CMR) president Elaine Donnelly continues to challenge outgoing Secretary of Defense
Leon Panetta's elimination of the ban against women serving in combat. A 42-page report, "Defense Department 'Diversity' Push for
Women In Land Combat" is a no-holds-barred assessment of the pitfalls that attend women serving in combat units.
No Better Critics. Ideologues and authoritarians
tend not to welcome debate on whatever issue it is they're applying their ideology to or invoking their authority on behalf of. The
question of women in combat units is no exception, as the proponents have gone out of their way to discourage honest debate on the question.
Demilitarizing the Military.
The decision to open up ground combat, front-line roles to women should not be viewed in isolation from a number of significant military
policy changes during President Obama's administration. Some changes have made headlines — the repeal of "don't ask,
don't tell," women in combat roles, and planned troop reductions — while others, like the ever-increasing influence of
international human-rights law in combat operations, have not. There is a common theme, however, and it is decidedly not one of
increased combat effectiveness.
Chuck Hagel
Advocated for Drastic Cuts, Elimination of U.S. Nuclear Arsenal. Former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) has spent a lot of time
pressing for international reductions in nuclear arsenals. And since joining hands with the anti-nuclear weapons group Global Zero in
2009, Hagel has not only supported a nuclear weapons-free America, but has even advocated unilateral U.S disarmament, "if necessary."
Why
Obama picked Hagel. The two share similar views and philosophies as the Obama administration attempts to define the role of the
United States in the transition to a post-superpower world.
As candidate, Hagel supported de-funding
Radio Free Europe. Secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel sought to eradicate U.S. funding for pro-democracy broadcasts
across the globe during his tenure in the Senate, according to a candidate questionnaire from his 1996 race against then-Nebraska Gov.
Ben Nelson (D). Asked if the U.S. should "continue funding for Radio Free Europe [RFE] and Radio Liberty [RL]," the pro-democracy
networks that helped reshape the world, Hagel replied, "No." Asked if the U.S. should "continue funding for Radio Marti and TV
Marti," the U.S.'s voice of freedom in Cuba, Hagel replied, "No."
Treason? Obama's Plans to Disarm America.
President Barack Obama's nomination for US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, is a board member of the far left, resolutely anti-military
Ploughshares Fund. [...] The Obama Administration's number one priority is the destruction of US defensive capability. If this is allowed
to occur, the United States and indeed the entire West, will be at the mercy of the combined military might of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba,
Venezuela, North Korea, radical Islam and all of their growing army of allies.
Selective enforcement. A military chaplains' advocacy
group criticized President Barack Obama earlier this week for suggesting his administration might ignore provisions of a new law that
offers religious liberty protections to service members. The protections, approved by Congress as part of the National Defense
Authorization Act, guarantee chaplains will not be forced to perform "marriage" ceremonies for same-sex couples or be punished for
refusing to do so.
Hagel, an Eccentric Choice to Run
Defense. First, by 'floating' the name of Susan Rice to succeed Hillary Clinton at the State Department, Obama left Rice
publicly vulnerable to her critics, and allowed opposition to build. Now, by similarly floating a name for the Pentagon, Obama has
subjected Hagel to the same political hazards that undermined Rice — and with comparable results.
Obama
Defense Pick Linked to Institute for Policy Studies, Anti-Military Marxists. President Barack Obama's proposed appointment of
former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as US Secretary of Defense is generating interest and even approval, on the far left. [... Phyllis] Bennis
is particularly happy that Hagel's appointment is a clear signal that Obama intends to move forward with the anti-American left's number one
priority — dramatically downsizing the US military.
Hagel's Controversial Foreign Connections and
Backers. Two seemingly unrelated events — Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel as Pentagon chief and the sale of Al Gore's
Current TV to Al Jazeera — are coming together in a way that illustrates the role that the foreign propaganda channel can and will
play if Congress lets the television deal go through. House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul is being encouraged
by a group of media critics, journalists, academics, and national security and Middle East experts, to open hearings into Al Jazeera's media
power play on American soil. In regard to Hagel, Breitbart blogger William Bigelow notes that Al Jazeera seems to be having a love affair
with the Obama nominee.
The twilight of America. Barack Obama has now
proposed filling the three positions in the US administration most concerned with the security of the nation and the defence of
the free world, those at State, Defence and the CIA, by three men who have all taken up positions which can only strengthen those
who threaten the security of America and the survival of the free world.
Navy admits standard-issue uniform is highly flammable and will melt onto skin.
The U.S. Navy's standard-issue blue digitized camouflage fatigues are highly flammable and will burn 'robustly
until complete consumption,' a report revealed last month. The findings show that the digital-print camo,
which is made from 50 percent cotton and 50 percent nylon, will drip as it burns, causing potentially
hazardous burn injuries.
Hagel
Pick Shows Where Obama Wants To Take The Country. The puzzle of the Chuck Hagel nomination for defense secretary is that you
normally choose someone of the other party for your Cabinet to indicate a move to the center, but Hagel's foreign policy views are to the
left of Barack Obama's, let alone the GOP's. Indeed, they are at the fringe of the entire Senate.
Stark Evidence of US, British
Naval Decline. As of January 2, 2013, gonavy.jp — a source, with StratFor, which we rely on here, was showing no
U.S. supercarrier battle groups in or near the Mediterranean. Last year, with the retirement of "the Big E", the USS Enterprise,
the U.S. supercarrier force shrank to ten battle groups. According to the same source, four of America's ten remaining supercarriers
are actually in various types of extended rehabitation, upgrading and maintenance, so they're not available for sea duty.
Hagel sounds just like Obama: There's No Case for Hagel.
What's striking about the case for Hagel is its absence. His backers can cite no significant legislation for which Hagel was
responsible in his two terms in the Senate. They can quote no memorable speeches that Hagel delivered and can cite no profound
passages from the book he authored.
Hollowing Out the U.S. Navy. In the 1960s
naval forces averaged 878 during the decade and in the 1970s averaged a reduced 606. In fact, President Reagan who often discussed
the need for a 600 ship navy never reached that goal in his eight years in office, the highest level being 594 in 1987 and an average
of 561 during his tenure. Now the U.S. Navy is a mere shadow of itself.
Obama
calls Conscience Clause for Military Chaplains "Ill-Advised". Religious liberty advocates are concerned after President
Obama said a conscience clause that would allow military chaplains to opt-out of performing gay marriages is "unnecessary and ill-advised."
"Every member of our armed forces should be able to serve without surrendering their beliefs," said Ron Crews, executive director of the
Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty.
The Editor says...
"Every member of our armed forces" is a group that includes the chaplains. What about "surrendering their beliefs"?
Obama Seizing Sole
Authority for US Defense. In an attempt to seize total control over national security and bypass congress, a frightening new step by
the Obama Administration is coming into play. As noted in Friday's Wall Street Journal in an op-ed by John Bolton and John Woo, a State
Department advisory group that is run by former Secretary of Defense William Perry is advising that the U.S. and Russia both reduce nuclear weapons
without a treaty, as a treaty would require ratification by Congress. This would allow Obama and his executive branch to unilaterally cut our
nuclear weaponry and ignore the treaty clause of the Constitution.
Draft of new U.S. Army handbook must be
scrapped. After the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the erosion of our military's moral principles, regretfully, continues. A
recent Wall Street Journal article described the U.S. Army's final-draft handbook, which indoctrinates our military personnel heading to Afghanistan in
how to be sensitive to and accept Muslim and Afghan 7th-century customs and values — or possibly be killed by our Afghan partners.
Unbelievable.
ICE Scraps 287(g) Program That
Allowed Local Police to Enforce Immigration Law. Amid Hispanic calls for immigration leniency, the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Agency is scrapping a program that allowed specially trained state and local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration law.
On Dec. 21, the Friday before Christmas, ICE announced that it has decided "not to renew any of its agreements with state and local law enforcement
agencies that operate task forces under the 287(g) program."
Document drop: Another Obama ICE
memo sabotages homeland security. In a nutshell, the Morton memo will make it more difficult for local police to detain illegal alien
criminal suspects through the 287(g) deportation program. The directive states that "three or more convictions for minor traffic misdemeanors or
other relatively minor misdemeanors alone should not trigger a detainer unless the convictions reflect a clear and continuing danger to others or
disregard for the law." The memo builds on other Morton directives aimed at limiting the scope of immigration enforcement at the behest of
open-borders leftists.
Apparently, the
Pentagon Was a Little Too Helpful to Zero Dark Thirty's Filmmakers. As if Zero Dark Thirty needed more controversy, ABC News is now reporting
that Under Secretary of Defense Michael Vickers is under investigation for leaking sensitive information to the filmmakers. [...] This is potentially a big deal for
said SEAL Team Six member, who could be targeted by terrorists, but it's also a bit of a boondoggle for the Pentagon, where state secrets definitely aren't supposed
to be exposed for the good of the entertainment industry.
Obama To Troops: Don't Insult The
Taliban. The administration blames U.S. troop rudeness for insider attacks by Afghan training partners. So it's issuing an etiquette
book ordering them not to criticize "pedophilia" and other things Islamic.
Obama to Troops: Don't Criticize the
Taliban. The Obama Administration has ordered changes in a new military handbook to now forbid U.S soldiers from criticizing the
Taliban. In addition, our men in uniform are forbidden to disparage pedophilia. Even further, our soldiers are instructed not to
speak of women's rights. Or homosexuality. Or criticism of Afghans at all.
New Army Manual Orders
Soldiers Not To Criticize Taliban. Here is a strong indicator that the Obama Administration's crusade to appease Islam has gone
too far; a new U.S. military handbook for troops deployed to the Middle East orders soldiers not to make derogatory comments about the
Taliban or criticize pedophilia, among other outrageous things. It gets better; the new manual, which is around 75 pages, suggests
that Western ignorance of Afghan culture — not Taliban infiltration — is responsible for the increase in deadly attacks
by Afghan soldiers against the coalition forces.
DOD Green Energy Project to Pay Off in
447 Years. In a mind-boggling example of government waste, it will take the U.S. Navy an astounding 447 years to benefit from
a costly green-energy project that's supposed to save money by lowering utility bills. Like many other failed renewable energy experiments,
the Navy project was funded with money from President Obama's $787 billion stimulus, the fraud-infested disaster that was supposed to jump
start the economy and put Americans back to work. Instead, big chunks of money have gone to wasteful projects [...]
Disarming America. A State Department board of experts is calling for steep
cuts in U.S. nuclear forces beyond the New START treaty limits and recommends unilateral or informal reductions to avoid expected Senate ratification
battles. "Treaties are an important but not always necessary method for reducing nuclear arsenals," the new report by the International
Security Advisory Board says. "The United States has reduced its nuclear arsenal without negotiating a new treaty in the past —
both unilaterally and reciprocally with Russia."
The Military is Not the
Place for Green Social Engineering. Morale for our soldiers is the lowest it's been in decades. Instead of
providing our troops with the best equipment and a decisive mission, we are sullying them with egregious rules of engagement, the
homosexual agenda, sensitivity training, and other social engineering activities.
Green War. [Scroll down] For example, the report notes a $14 million Air Force construction
project to convert three Alaskan radar stations from diesel to wind energy. The project was begun without any assurances it was properly planned or would result
in any cost savings. The Navy is also spending $170 million to convert parts of its fleet to algae-based biofuel, which currently costs $15 a gallon or four
times the cost of conventional fuel. The Defense Department spends more than $15 billion on energy annually and is the largest consumer of energy in the
federal government. Alternative fuel could potentially save taxpayers significant amounts of money.
Obama Budget Would Slash Defense
Spending Sharply. Lost in the shuffle, defense is seldom cited as a reason for voting for Mitt Romney. But it should be. If
Barack Obama has his way, our nation will be weaker and more vulnerable than any time since before WWII.
Commander in Chief Fails Military Voters, Again.
Our armed forces need a commander in chief who protects the most basic right of every American citizen — the right to vote. Our
armed forces risk their safety and their lives to protect each citizen's right to vote. The president needs to protect theirs. Obama
and his attorney general are responsible for the protection of military voting rights, yet they have stood idly by while our troops have been
disenfranchised. Overseas military voters need ballots sent to them in time so they have the opportunity to vote and to return their
ballots. However, various jurisdictions have failed to comply with federal law deadlines to mail the ballots.
Benghazi Reveals Obama-Islamist Alliance.
The purpose of the AQ attacks was to embarrass the United States, and to show us to be a paper tiger, precisely the way Ayatollah Khomeini did
to Jimmy Carter. AQ also wanted to tear off the cover of the Benghazi arms-smuggling operation, to make us look like a treasonous ally,
which, as it turns out, we are. All of our allies around the world, from South Korea and Japan to Israel, Australia, and Norway, must
now be reassessing our reliability. One major betrayal of our allies is enough to shatter sixty years of faith in American leadership.
The October Surprise in 2010.
At 4:22 p.m. on Friday, October 29, 2010, President Barack Obama stepped into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House and
announced some startling news: Two bombs, hidden inside printer cartridges, had been detected the previous day on a cargo plane heading from Dubai to
Chicago. The detection was obviously good news — but did it really have to be news? That is, wasn't there much to be gained by
staying mum on the news, with an eye to catching the culprits?
Obama's dangerous emasculating of our military. For veterans and
those interested in the security of America, the question is: Would I want this man with me in combat? Could he be trusted to lead a military squad let alone
be commander in chief? Can you picture Obama in a duck blind — or even holding a gun? Has he ever held a gun?
No Joking Matter: O's
Declining Navy. A look at what this administration's policies have meant to the U.S. Navy is both revealing and
frightening. Over the last four years, the combat strength of the U.S. Navy has been degraded to an extraordinary degree.
President Obama is fond of saying that Governor Romney would spend "trillions of dollars that the military isn't asking for."
In fact, successive chiefs of naval operations have testified before Congress that the minimum number of vessels needed to carry out
current missions is 313. The fleet currently consists of 285 ships, the lowest number since before America entered World
War I.
Peter King: Obama
admin may have given classified briefings to Daily Beast columnist. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Peter King is asking
CIA director Gen. David Petraeus and White House national security adviser James Clapper to investigate whether a columnist for The Daily Beast received
the same classified foreign policy briefings as President Barack Obama.
Homosexuals in the military demand
special privileges. The American armed forces exist to defend our nation, not to conduct social science lab experiments in which our
troops serve as human subjects. Try telling that to this administration. The first anniversary of the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell,"
Sept. 20, has come and gone. Now, there is mounting evidence that proves our warnings were not idle chatter. The threat to freedom
posed by this radical sexual experiment on our military is real: It is grave and it is growing.
Why Aren't Marines Carrying Live Ammo?
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Anne Patterson, the U.S. Ambassador to Cairo, forbade U.S. Marines guarding the embassy from
carrying live ammo. Ambassadors might be kings (or queens) of the compound, but her pronouncement was nothing short of professional incompetence.
One way to weaken the military is to diminish morale. MacIver:
Military Voters in Wisconsin Told to Submit Ballots a Week After Deadline. The Federal Voting Assistance Program website published
an incorrect deadline for the return of returning military ballots in Wisconsin. Had this error not been corrected, thousands of Wisconsin
servicemen and women could have been disenfranchised in this key swing state this November.
Trashing the Constitution.
Constitution Day is Monday, Sept. 17, so I compiled a non-exhaustive list of the ways Barack Obama has violated the Constitution. [...] [For
example,] Undermining the nation's armed forces. Article II, Section 2, names the president commander in chief.
Instead of asserting American power, Mr. Obama projects weakness, emboldening our enemies. The murder of our ambassador and
three other staff members in Benghazi, Libya, and the attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Yemen are bitter fruit of that reality.
In addition, Mr. Obama rammed through Congress a bill homosexualizing the military despite failing to make the case that this won't hurt
readiness, morale, retention or recruitment. He is unfit to be commander in chief.
Reports: Marines not permitted live ammo.
U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in Egypt were not permitted by the State Department to carry live ammunition, limiting
their ability to respond to attacks like those this week on the U.S. consulate in Cairo.
Obama Still Decimating the
Military. Massive numbers of military veterans are being dumped out on the streets after 10, 20, even 30 years of
honorable service. Obama is cutting experienced veterans who have deployed numerous times in order to screw these soldiers out
of the retirement benefits they earned, while recruiting a new kind of young inexperienced soldier focus only upon social justice and
potential domestic terrorists.
The
Defense Dept. Will Buy Volts, Instead of Military Equipment, to Make Obama Look Good. GM's Volt electric car is much in the
news because GM is losing up to $49,000 on every Volt it builds. They have sold only 13,500 Volts this year, 33.75% of
it's [sic] 40,000 goal. Even at that, hardly anyone wants to buy one. Such a dilemma. The "Optics" are very bad for
Democrats who have just proclaimed GM being "alive" as one of the Obama administration's great triumphs.
Why
is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings? President Obama is touting his foreign
policy experience on the campaign trail, but startling new statistics suggest that national security has not necessarily
been the personal priority the president makes it out to be. It turns out that more than half the time, the commander in
chief does not attend his daily intelligence meeting.
Obama To Soldiers Overseas: No Voting For
You! The administration thanks the troops for their service by failing to comply with a law requiring that it help soldiers deployed overseas cast
ballots in their home states.
More Evidence
Defense Sequestration Originated in White House. The hulking budget cuts now facing the Pentagon were initially pitched
to Harry Reid by the White House, which saw them as a way to leverage a tax-increasing "grand bargain" from Republicans, according to
Bob Woodward's latest book.
Internal
Army Poll: Only 26% of Officers Say Army Headed in Right Direction — 'Political Correctness' Cited. Is
the U.S. Army headed in the right direction? An internal Army survey that was conducted in 2011 and published this year
discovered that only 26 percent of active-duty Army officers say yes — and that one of the two main themes
cited by those who say no is that the Army is now adversely impacted by "political correctness" imposed by both outside
policymakers and senior Army leaders.
Defending America Takes More Than
"Hope". Speaking to veterans at the American Legion conference this week, President Obama said, "Today, every American
can be proud that the United States is safer, stronger and more respected in the world." That's quite a statement from a President
who has granted legitimacy to extremist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood and promised the Russians he would be "flexible" toward
their demands on missile defense, while slighting American allies like Poland and the Czech Republic.
America's Security
Commitment to Asia Needs More Forces. A smaller Navy, Air Force, Army, and Marine Corps means a reduced U.S. presence
overseas and, due to an even higher operational tempo, a greater strain on existing forces and equipment. Underfunding defense
requirements could restrict potential U.S. policy options and increase the danger to U.S. forces during any future Asian engagements.
And, ultimately, the price of such underfunding will be mission failure or American servicemen's lives.
Leakgate:
Obama's Unspinnable Scandal. Even getting the Joint Chiefs chairman to admonish the ex-Navy SEALs who are condemning White
House leaks won't extinguish Obama's Leak-gate scandal. These heroes are dead right.
State Dept. Advisers: Let's Cut Nukes Some More. A State Department
advisory board report made public Tuesday shows that the Obama administration is studying cuts in U.S. strategic arsenals to "very low" levels and ultimately
eliminating nuclear arms. The advisory board, headed by former Defense Secretary William Perry, reflects themes promoted by liberal arms control and
disarmament officials in the administration and calls for a new U.S. nuclear doctrine dubbed "mutual assured stability" based on better relations with Russia.
Will Obama Keep Power 'by Any Means Necessary'?
[Scroll down] Many spectacles have enlivened presidential elections over the years, but 2012 marks the first time that high-level military personnel
have felt compelled to publicly tell the president to stop leaking national security secrets. A group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces
operatives created a 22-minute video, "Dishonorable Disclosures," to shame Obama into shutting up about priceless intelligence related to bin Laden's death,
British-Saudi penetration of al-Qaeda, and the Israeli-American Stuxnet virus attack on Iran's nuclear program. Normally, presidents don't want to
endanger American citizens and military personnel by leaking top-secret information — but aiding and abetting the enemy is apparently all in a
day's work for Obama.
Navy SEALs To Obama: You Didn't
Kill Osama — We Did. A group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces operatives is launching a media campaign to
scold the president for taking credit for killing Osama bin Laden and endangering lives with self-serving leaks.
Dishonorable Disclosures: It's Dynamite.
The Obama administration, to its everlasting shame, has eagerly leaked sensitive national security information to advance its own partisan political
interests. The killing of Osama bin Laden by special forces who had been on the job for years was the most grotesque, but not the only, example.
Special forces operators and intelligence officials were outraged by Obama's leaks, as were many others, including Democratic Senators. So a bunch
of special operators and intelligence professionals got together to protest against the Obama administration's irresponsibility.
Obama's
Much-Touted "Reset" Brings Russian Submarines To Our Coast. So what did President Obama's Russian "reset button" buy us?
Russian attack subs capable of taking out a U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling our sea lanes without our knowledge. [...] All this comes as
Russia is selling advanced weapons — an estimated $4.6 billion or so — to Venezuela's dictator Hugo Chavez and
establishing an intelligence-collecting site and nuclear submarine base in Cuba.
Russian
attack submarine slipped past US Navy and patrolled Gulf of Mexico for weeks undetected. A Russian attack submarine slipped into the
Gulf of Mexico undetected and sailed through US strategic waters for weeks without the US Navy noticing, it was reported on Wednesday [8/15/2012].
The US military didn't even know about the presence of the Akula-class nuclear submarine earlier this year until after it had already left the gulf,
still carrying a payload of long-range missiles.
Obama signs bill
requiring detailed 'sequester' report to Congress. President Barack Obama now has 30 days to give Congress a detailed
report on exactly how the sequester budget cuts will affect domestic and military programs. Obama signed the "Sequestration
Transparency Act" Tuesday afternoon [8/7/2012] after the measure received bipartisan support in the House and Senate.
Defense vs. Food Stamps — What
Would You Choose? By his own admission, President Obama has always wanted to cut the defense budget dramatically.
In April 2011 — long before the near shutdown of the government and the last-minute debt-ceiling deal, which paved the way
for sequestration — the president outlined $400 billion in defense cuts he had already approved. He also said
that he wanted to "do that again" and find another $400 billion in military spending reductions. All this without any
talk of threats, strategy or requirements — just arbitrary budget targets imposed on the military.
Forcing our all-volunteer force to
fail. The president of ISNA, Imam Mohamed Magid serves as a member of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Countering
Violent Extremism Working Group. He is a close adviser to the National Security Council as well as to President Obama. He
continues to have access to not only the State and Treasury departments but has been used frequently by DOD to formulate responses to
incidents that Islamists consider offensive.
Killer of American troops
set to be freed, thanks to Obama. An Iraqi court has rejected a request to send a Hezbollah commander to the United States for trial.
Ali Mussa Daqduq, a Lebanese militant, has been held in Iraq for the 2007 killings of five American soldiers, four of whom were captured, tortured and shot
execution-style. [...] As Alana Goodman points out, Daqduq was in U.S. custody in Iraq and could have been transferred to Guantanamo Bay. But
despite our government's belief, set forth in the extradition request, that Daqduq is a top threat to Americans in the Middle East, President Obama
refused to send him to Gitmo.
Pentagon Official: Sequestration a Step
Toward 'Hollow' Military Force. A senior Defense Department official testifying before the House Armed Services Committee last week said
implementing sequestration, across-the-board budget cuts set to take effect in January, "would represent a major step toward creation of an unready, 'hollow'
military force." Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's second-in-command, told House members that sequestration "introduces senseless
chaos into the management of more than 2,500 defense investment programs" and "would be devastating to DoD, just as it would to every other affected federal
agency."
The Obama Jobs Sequester.
A year ago, the president demanded a $500 billion "sequester" of defense dollars as a penalty should Congress fail to cut a grand debt
deal. Congress of course failed, and Mr. Obama's sequester is now imminent. The sequester slash comes on top of the
$487 billion in defense cuts Mr. Obama had already ordered in January of this year, threatening the likes of Mansfield [Ohio].
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned of the damage the sequester will do to national security. Yet the far more immediate
political problem for Mr. Obama is that the cuts are compounding his domestic jobs liability — in the final stretch of the
campaign.
Obama's Drive to Disenfranchise Soldiers.
U.S. military personnel tend to favor Republicans so it shouldn't surprise anyone that President Obama's reelection campaign has filed suit attacking an Ohio law
that makes it easier for soldiers to vote. This nickel-and-dime approach to disenfranchisement was used by then-presidential candidate Al Gore in
2000. The unsuccessful Democrat turned global warming hoaxer had his lawyers disqualify ballots from military personnel overseas. The new lawsuit is
also an apparent acknowledgement that Obama is writing off the military vote this year.
Obama Attempts To Suppress Ohio Military
Vote. The administration likes to use soldiers for photo-ops but now, in a critical battleground state, they want to restrict the extra time for
service members who protect our right to vote to cast theirs.
Democrats Versus Military Voters: Not the
First Time. Last Thursday [8/2/2012], Breitbart News' Mike Flynn broke the news that the Obama campaign was suing in the swing state of Ohio to
block a law that extends early voting for members of the military for an additional three days. [...] Regardless of the remedy they seek, Flynn points out,
they are suing to end an exemption for military voters. It would not be the first time Democrats — who pretend, in their fight against
voter ID, to want more ballot access — have tried to stop the military's votes from counting.
Obama frags military voters.
President Obama goes out of his way to appear to support the troops. But when it comes to voting, he would like to keep them
out of the fight.
Obama Campaign Sues to
Restrict Military Voting. President Barack Obama, along with many Democrats, likes to say that, while they may disagree
with the GOP on many issues related to national security, they absolutely share their admiration and dedication to members of our armed
forces. Obama, in particular, enjoys being seen visiting troops and having photos taken with members of our military. So,
why is his campaign and the Democrat party suing to restrict their ability to vote in the upcoming election?
Sure, He Supports The Troops. If the president supports the
troops, as he so often claims, he sure has a funny way of showing it. The Obama for America campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the
Democratic Party of Ohio quietly filed a lawsuit on [Friday] July 17th trying to limit the number of days which members of Armed Forces have
to participate in that state's early voting. Multiple veterans organizations are opposing the lawsuit.
Obama Lawsuit to Disenfranchise Military Voters
in Ohio. Obama is attempting to disenfranchise military voters in the most important swing state of Ohio. The Obama for America Campaign, the
Democratic National Committee, and the Ohio Democratic Party filed suit in Ohio on July 17th to strike down part of that state's law governing voting by
members of the military. Their suit said that part of the law is "arbitrary" with "no discernible rational basis."
Romney
Campaign: Obama Campaign Lawsuit Targeting Military Voters 'Despicable' and 'Offensive'. Breitbart News broke the story that the Obama campaign
and the Democratic National Committee were suing Ohio's Attorney General and Secretary of State to prevent military voters from being granted three extra days
of early voting. The Obama campaign argued it was unconstitutional and arbitrary for Ohio to grant special privileges to military voters. This was
not the first time Democrats targeted military voters.
House bars Obama from sharing
secrets with Russia. The Fiscal 2013 Defense spending bill that passed the House 326 to 90 with bipartisan
support Thursday evening [7/19/2012] included an amendment that would prohibit President Barack Obama from making good on a deal with
Russia that he appeared to hint at earlier this year. Introduced by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), the amendment bars the administration
from sharing classified missile defense information with Russia.
The Editor says...
If Barack Obama has already revealed military secrets to Russia, this amendment accomplishes nothing.
The Air Force is spending 16 times as much as it needs to. U.S. Air Force tests biofuel at $59 per gallon.
The U.S. Navy angered Republicans by spending $26 a gallon for biofuels for this week's Great Green Fleet demonstration, but the Air Force received
little attention when it paid twice as much per gallon to test synthetic jet fuel last month. The Air Force bought 11,000 gallons of
alcohol-to-jet fuel from Gevo Inc, a Colorado biofuels company, at $59 a gallon in a program aimed at proving that new alternative fuels can be used
reliably in military aircraft — once, that is, their pricing is competitive with petroleum, which now costs $3.60 a gallon.
U.S. Navy Sails the Ocean Green.
On Friday June 29 a U.S. Navy carrier strike group set sail from Puget Sound to participate in "Rim of the Pacific" maneuvers.
More than 20 nations are involved in the six-week maneuvers, which featured a key difference for the American fleet. The
carriers had filled up on biofuel at a cost of nearly $27 a gallon, more than seven times as high as the usual $3.60 a gallon of
conventional fuel. The massive cost increase is the result of President Obama linking the national security of the United
States to his own environmental agenda.
Navy's Green Initiative:
Costly and Not So Green. The Obama administration intends to spend another $62 million for the Navy to "go green"
with biofuels, but GOP lawmakers contend the cost is simply too high. The White House announced on Monday that it would be launching
two new biofuel research and development programs that would permit the Navy, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Energy
to offer $30 million in matching funds to support "drop-in" biofuel research and development. "Drop-in" biofuels are those which
can be used in current infrastructure, making their implementation easier and more cost-efficient. Funding for the drop-in fuels is
found in the Defense Production Act, which seeks to increase national security by utilizing domestic energy.
Inhofe:
Navy 'publicity stunt' squandered millions, put sailors' lives at risk. While lawmakers on Capitol Hill were struggling
to find a solution to the threat of sequestration, the Navy spent more than $12 million at the Rim of the Pacific exercise
painting ships, printing hats and transporting fuel to parade the Navy's Great Green Fleet in front of thousands of spectators and
foreign military observers.
The Scandal of Our Age. Here is the crux of the scandal:
Obama is formulating a new policy of avoiding overt unpopular engagements, while waging an unprecedented covert war across the world. He's
afraid that the American people do not fully appreciate these once-secret efforts and might in 2012 look only at his mishaps in Afghanistan or his
public confusion over Islamic terror. Ergo, feed information to a Sanger or Ignatius so that they can skillfully inform us, albeit with a
bit of dramatic "shock" and "surprise," just how tough, brutal, and deadly Barack Obama really is. Yet these disclosures will endanger our
national security, especially in the case of a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. They will probably get people killed or tortured, and they will weaken
America's ability for years to work covertly with allies.
John Wayne Obama. The announcement of a
Justice Department investigation into a flurry of high-level leaks that have compromised U.S. national security has done nothing to allay
concerns in Congress. As the probe moves forward, one thing is clear: The White House needs to get its story straight.
Hold Obama accountable. Suddenly,
congressional leaders of both parties are demanding investigations into serial disclosures of national security secrets on President
Obama's watch. The truth of the matter is that we already know what we need to about those leaks. The question is:
Will anybody do anything about them?
Who is the White House Mole?
There has been a series of leaks of classified information from the White House in an effort to portray President
Obama as a tough American foreign policy leader, but no official has resigned from the administration or the Obama
campaign in disgrace or protest. This suggests the betrayal of state secrets is being condoned or ignored at
the highest levels. Not surprisingly, Eric Holder's Department of Justice is resisting the appointment of a
special or outside counsel to probe the scandal. If it is so easy to turn over national security information
to the media, it may be just as easy to turn the state secrets directly over to the enemy. Either way, our
adversaries benefit.
Pentagon to salute gay troops.
They declined to give details about what the event will be, but officials said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta feels it's important to
recognize the service of gays in the armed forces.
The Dark Knight. The Obama administration has taken the CIA "out of the
business" of interrogating high-value terrorists and the lack of data is endangering the U.S. security, according to former CIA
counterterrorism chief Jose A. Rodriguez. If U.S. intelligence or military personnel capture a senior terror leader today, no
system is in place or facilities set up where he could be questioned, said the 31-year agency veteran who was awarded several medals for
his intelligence work before retiring in 2007.
Obama Doctrine: Speak
Loudly And Carry A Puny Stick. Panetta's announcement comes just as Congress is making big cuts in the U.S. budget for 2013,
with the defense department projected to take half the hit at $487 billion. That means the U.S. fleet, at about 285 ships,
could be cut to 230 ships, the lowest level since before the World War I era, and a sorry decline from the 546 vessels at
sea during the U.S. Reagan-era peak in 1990.
The midway plus 70.
We're fast approaching the point where the US Navy can no longer guarantee the safety of the world's sea lanes, on which our economic
future depends.
Billions For Climate, Not One More Cent For
Defense. A new report shows we have spent $70 billion on climate change since 2008 while our strapped military is ordered to become
energy-efficient. Imagine weapons that don't harm the environment.
The Green Monster. Their agenda: spend millions on expensive alternative biofuels.
Invest even more in undeveloped "green" technology. Prepare for the melting of the polar ice caps brought on by climate change. Some aggressive and
well-funded environmentalist group? Nope. It's the U.S. military.
Inhofe delivers Senate floor takedown of military 'green' agenda. The Obama
administration is determined to gut the U.S. military in order to fund a far-left environmental agenda, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said during an extended
address on the Senate floor this week. Inhofe spoke to Human Events last week about his concern that U.S. military leaders had proposed spending billions on
green energy measures and expensive biofuels while implementing slashing cuts on equipment and key functions, and promised to bring attention to the Defense
Department's promotion of the president's liberal goals.
Defeating National Defense. Former government attorneys and defense experts
fear that foreign terrorists could capitalize on a new House proposal that would afford them full protection under the U.S. legal system, potentially
spurring a domestic influx of would-be terrorists who may seek to exploit the legal loophole. The amendment, spearheaded by Reps. Justin Amash
(R., Mich.) and Adam Smith (D., Wash), would implement an unprecedented reversal in longstanding U.S. policy by requiring that terrorists be prosecuted
in civilian courts — a shift that would also allow them to be housed among general inmates in American prisons.
Air Force move cripples emergency response.
As Hurricane Ike neared the Texas coast in 2008, hundreds of hospital patients and nursing home residents were in harm's way, facing a difficult escape from the storm's
path. That's when the C-130s of the 136th Airlift Wing, based in Fort Worth, Texas, went into action. That year, for the first time in U.S. history, C-130s were
used to help move patients to safety ahead of a storm's arrival. In all, between Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, also in 2008, 800 people were airlifted to safety.
The same planes were among the first to arrive following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, bringing much-needed supplies and National Guard troops to areas devastated by the
storm. If a plan being put in place by the U.S. Air Force is allowed to go into effect, that sort of mutual assistance among our Gulf Coast states could be
a thing of the past.
Missile Mania. Senior State Dept missile defense envoy declines to
explain Obama's 'flexibility' promise to Moscow.
Why is Obama
considering degrading our military dogs' training? When a dog and handler receive advanced training in Yuma and then
lead a patrol in Afghanistan where they find one hidden booby trap, it can easily save five or ten combatants from injury or death
on any given day. Not only have the dogs learned to smell the bomb component chemicals, but they can actually hear the unique
low sound the wind makes as it blows over a nearly invisible nylon fishing line or thin metal one, both of which are used as booby-trap
tripwires. And dogs trained to track have caught insurgents, a valuable source of intelligence, without firefights.
Bolton:
Obama's foreign policy is 'confused, incoherent and incompetent'. [Scroll down] Well, I think
Romney is in the long stream of Republican presidents and candidates who believe in the doctrine of peace through
strength, that a strong America is less likely to face challenges and difficulties than a weak America. Obama
has a very different view. He's obviously comfortable with American decline. He doesn't see international
problems and threats as being nearly as serious as they are in the terrorism area, the proliferation area and others.
And he's presiding over a hollowing out of the American military, which I think will have significant down sides
for us in the years to come.
An SOS for the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard needs to call more attention to its undersized fleet, according to Congressional Research
Service expert Ron O'Rourke. [...] The sea service's own "high latitude study" concluded that, to accomplish
all its polar missions, the Coast Guard requires three heavy-duty and three medium icebreakers. Currently,
the service sails one medium icebreaker and is keeping two heavy-duty icebreakers afloat (though neither is
operational). [...] One can look to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to witness the effect this depleted force is
having. The U.S. has had to rely on Russian icebreakers to make way for U.S. supplies to the station.
Obama Suckering America into Loving
Russia. Lies have consequences. And the lies told by the Obama administration about Russia for the past four years,
lies which can be characterized only as Goebbels-like propaganda, have had devastating consequences indeed.
Air Force tells pilots to
slow down to save fuel. The Air Force has ordered its pilots to fly higher and slower in an effort to slash
fuel use while still performing the same missions. The rise in oil prices has added $1 billion to the cost of
fueling the Air Force fleet in 2012, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for energy Kevin Geiss said last month.
Obama guts Defense R&D while pumping money into civilian labs. The One Thing He Wants to Cut. Domestic agencies such
as the departments of Health and Human Services and Energy would receive a larger share of research and development funding
than the Department of Defense under President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2013 budget, according to a Washington Free
Beacon analysis. The military would receive just under $70 billion for its research activities, down from
$75 billion in 2010 and less than half of the $141 billion Obama has budgeted for R&D across all government agencies.
'Doomsday Clock' of Defense budget cuts nears zero hour.
If the hatchet strikes indiscriminately, and at a time that does not regard Defense budget planning, [Defense Secretary Leon]
Panetta said the immediate result would be employee furloughs and contract and procurement curtailment; and the end of the
decade would see the smallest U.S. Air Force in history in terms of personnel, smallest ground force since 1940, and smallest
number of Navy ships since 1915.
One way to weaken the military is to discourage good people from enlisting. Military votes don't count.
Election after election, certain state and local election officials fail to meet the deadline for sending absentee
ballots. The outcome is often the same — thousands of ballots are received too close to the election to be
returned or, if they are returned, the ballots arrive after the deadline to be counted. In either case, the military
voter is disenfranchised.
Being 'Army strong'
gets weak backing with Obama's strategy. The Army is coming out of a decade of war beat up and strapped for cash.
The force that arguably did most of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffered the most casualties, now finds itself in a new
conflict. It has begun a round of soul-searching and bureaucratic battles to determine its place in the Obama administration's
new military strategy, which celebrates the global striking power of air and sea forces and downplays the chance of another major
land war.
Obama's Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
Perhaps you do not know that President Obama has asked the Pentagon to develop plans to reduce America's nuclear arsenal by up
to 80 percent. That would ultimately leave America with just about 300 nuclear weapons, down from a high of
over 31,000 at the height of the Cold War.
What Happened to Preserve,
Protect, and Defend? Obama has done what no guardian of America would do: systematically tear down the most vital of
America's defenses, all while America's enemies wait with bated breath for the nation that owes trillions in debt to be left standing
defenseless. What happens when America lays down its arms? It seems Obama would like to find out.
Obama campaign's big blunder.
The Obama campaign accidentally handed its opponents a huge present, if they have the wit and the guts to use it.
The portion of the public that is paying attention is justifiably alarmed at Obama's overheard promise to Putin have
"flexibility" on missile defense after the election.
Obama
Groveling Before Russians Fulfills 2008 Promise. The president insists he wasn't trying to "hide the ball" until
after the election, but the man who as candidate pledged to "end misguided defense policies" such as missile defense is fulfilling
that campaign promise.
Biden downplays Russian threat: 'This is
not 1956'. On Sunday's "Face the Nation" on CBS, Vice President Joe Biden took on the chief critic of President Barack
Obama's open-microphone moment last week, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Biden said Romney's criticism of Obama's
flexibility falls on deaf ears because the president was just stating the obvious.
'Bam and the bear.
We can only imagine what's up next, once Obama doesn't have to worry about getting elected ever again. Russia, after all, runs a
kind of Monroe Doctrine on steroids in Eastern Europe — which the Bear considers its den.
The Flexible Flip-Flopper. President
Obama's hot mic moment defined his trip to South Korea and may very well define his reelection bid. The reason his uncensored remark
resonates is that it supports a pre-existing narrative that President Obama's promises are not to be trusted.
Rubio:
Obama's open mic gaffe prompted timing of Romney endorsement. Mitt Romney can thank President Obama's
"flexibility" for Marco Rubio's endorsement. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Sen. Rubio revealed
that President Obama's recent "open mic" gaffe with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sparked his endorsement of Mitt
Romney for president Wednesday night [3/28/2012]. "It's been weighing on my mind all week," he said.
Obama plans
double cross on missile defense. There is so much constant, loud clatter in politics that often it is
difficult to separate that which is important and revealing from that which is just noise. But President Obama
said something important and revealing on Monday [3/26/2012] in South Korea. The White House tried to laugh off
his comments at first and then to explain them away. But the implications are too serious for political spin.
Obama
Trades His Oath for Russian Campaign Contribution. A U.S. president has just told the leaders of an unfriendly
nation that he wants to make concessions to them on matters of national defense, but that he cannot do so until after he has
freed himself from having to answer to the American people. In other words, he has explicitly made himself a servant, not
of U.S. national interests, but of Russian national interests. He is assuring the Russians that he intends to satisfy their
wishes, as soon as American public opinion ceases to be an obstacle. This, I suggest, is the kind of government secrecy
that ought to cause alarm.
Obama's
'flexibility' to lie after election. Turns out he's not Kenyan after all. He's KGB. All
this time, people were worried that President Obama was born in Africa and that his radical agenda had been crafted
by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Saul Alinsky on the streets of Chicago's South Side. Now we know his real
radical hidden agenda is in service of the Kremlin.
The Editor says...
I have to disagree with the first sentence: The fact that Obama is a communist sympathizer doesn't
prove that he doesn't have dual citizenship. In fact, it makes suspicion of him even more plausible.
Why
Obama's open mic slip could seriously hurt his reelection hopes. By telling Mr. Medvedev and his
patron, the once-and-future Russian President Vladimir Putin, that he will have "flexibility" after the American
election on Russian demands opposing a US missile defense for Europe, Mr. Obama is in effect saying he is ready
to do something the Russians will like but that the American people won't. Mr. Obama has shown Russian
leaders, and now the entire world, weakness.
Open-mic Obama. Until this week, we thought our
fearless leader, President Obama, was merely planning to trade away our missile-defense shield for marginal reductions
in the Russian nuclear arsenal. Then came the incident of the open microphone. Into an open mic, a
temerarious Obama promised the ersatz president of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, that, after the
November presidential elections, he would have more "flexibility" in dealing with that pesky missile shield
that so offends the Russians and their clients. Even Obama's allies seemed stunned that he would so
recklessly let the cat out of the bag, and give credence to Republican warnings about a second Obama term in
office.
Obama's hot
mike disaster. Mitt Romney wasted no time in spotting and capitalizing on the mega-error by President Obama in telling
the Russian president he'll have "more flexibility" after the election. ... Given his recent turn to the left both substantively and
rhetorically, the "more flexibility" statement is going to be hard to live down.
Hot mic: Obama begs
Russians for 'space' on missile defense talks. Unaware that a microphone was recording him, President Obama asked
outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Monday for breathing room until after Mr. Obama's re-election campaign to negotiate
on missile defense. "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important
for him to give me space," Mr. Obama told Mr. Medvedev at the end of their 90-minute meeting, apparently referring to incoming
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President
Obama Asks Medvedev for 'Space' on Missile Defense — 'After My Election I Have More Flexibility'. At
the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday [3/26/2012], President Obama said that he
would have "more flexibility" to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense, but incoming Russian President Vladimir
Putin needs to give him "space." The exchange was picked up by microphones as reporters were let into the room for remarks
by the two leaders.
Will Voters
Give Obama The Flexibility To Surrender? The president tells his Russian counterpart to give him space until November
when, if re-elected, he'll be able to give away missile defense and the rest of the store without political consequences.
Turner to Obama: What Flexibility? A senior House
Republican on Monday accused President Obama of going back on promises he would not weaken U.S. missile defenses through negotiations
with Russia after the president was overheard promising more concessions after his reelection.
RNC responds to Obama's hot-mic comments.
The RNC blasted President Obama for remarks he made to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Seoul that were overheard by reporters
in a new ad released Monday [3/26/2012]. "What else is on Obama's agenda after the election that he isn't telling you?" the ad asks.
Obama defends hot-mic missile gaffe.
President Barack Obama is defending his hot-mic promise of post-election "flexibility" with Russia's leaders as just another
version of his public statements, and is blaming the media for slowing down a deal with Russia.
All the Pravda. For a man so in love with the technology
of image, the camera, the microphone and the teleprompter, the leader of the increasingly less free world has a natural tendency to put a
little too much faith in it. This is the second time that an open microphone has let Obama down, the first time it recorded him
stabbing an ally in the back, the second time it recorded him stabbing a few dozen more in the back.
Krauthammer:
Obama Admitted To Medvedev That Second Term Will Be Hard Left. 'This is my last election.' That's his way of
saying with a nod and a wink, 'Look, you guys have a free hand because you run a dictatorship, your elections are rigged.
Well, ours aren't rigged, but once I get passed my last election, I'm unleashed. I can do anything I want.
Spins and needles for
Barack Obama. Spinning is a deceiver's art, the craft of persuading suckers they didn't really hear what they
just heard. It's what modern politics is all about. President Obama has put his best spinners to work to "clarify"
what he meant with his remarks in confidence to the Russians that once past November he'll have the "flexibility" to alter
the American missile-defense system in a way that will please Moscow.
What Will Obama Give Russia If He's Re-elected?
President Barack Obama would like to do some things for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and President-elect Vladimir
Putin that he does not want American voters to know about before they decide whether to re-elect him in November.
That was the intended-to-be-secret message Obama gave Medvedev in South Korea on Monday [3/26/2012].
Issa:
'He's Going to Sell Out Our National Defense After the Election'. House Oversight and Government
Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that "the American people should be very afraid" after
hearing President Barack Obama's accidentally recorded remarks to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday
that after the election he would have more "flexibility" in dealing with the Russians. "I judge that in
fact he's going to sell out our national defense after the election," said Issa.
Disarming
America: Obama Betrays Reagan's Dream. The president's shredding of the Constitution began at the
Preamble's provision for the common defense. He gave away our missile defense to appease Moscow and betray
our allies.
A curious experiment in gun control.
Nothing but a direct order from the White House could have persuaded Maj. Gen. Mark Gurganus, the senior Marine in
Afghanistan, to disarm his men on the battlefield, even for an audience with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
The episode revealed much about our administration, none of it good. Dishonorably Disarmed: Marines Insulted by
Sec. Panetta. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was to address a mixed U.S.-Afghan audience at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan
only weeks after six American solders were killed by Afghan soldiers, and days after an American soldier allegedly killed 16 Afghan
civilians. That circumstance alone would ensure a tense atmosphere, but the decision to disarm the 200 Marines who planned
to hear the secretary should set off further alarm bells.
Worse Than a Powder
Keg. Our troops have been the target of serial sneak attacks by the Afghans with whom they are forced
to "partner." Nevertheless, our Marines were ordered to disarm before being admitted into the presence of
Obama's defense secretary, Leon Panetta. Yes, you read that correctly: Our Marines were stripped of
their arms. Panetta was at Camp Leatherneck on a "surprise" visit, hoping to calm the disastrous situation
in the combat theater. Turns out not to have been much of a surprise: One of our Afghan "partners" — a
contract interpreter hired to help our armed forces in deadly Helmand province — seamlessly converted
to Islamist suicide assassin.
McCain
sees another Solyndra in Navy biofuels spending. The Navy's push to develop biofuels to run its fleet of
planes and warships could devolve into a "Solyndra situation" for the Pentagon, a top Republican senator said today
[3/15/2012]. During Tuesday's [3/13/2012] hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, ranking member John
McCain (R-Ariz.) compared the now-bankrupt solar energy company, into which the White House sank $535 million in
loan guarantees, to Navy-led efforts in alternative energy.
Obama's Missile Defense Madness.
Back during the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama suggested he would be willing to meet with Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without any preconditions in order to achieve an improvement in relations between the two
countries. For this he was widely criticized, and he dropped the idea. To date, he hasn't really
come up with anything concrete as a replacement.
Obama's
Alarming View on Who Wills the US Military. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told a Senate
committee on Wednesday that the US would "seek permission" from international organizations before committing
the military to war. He also made it clear that the Obama administration does not feel it necessary to
"inform" Congress or get their authorization for military action.
This, in my opinion, would be an act of treason: Obama
To Give Missile Secrets To Russia With Love? A deputy defense secretary tells Congress that the
administration is indeed considering giving Moscow sensitive Aegis ballistic missile defense data. We've
gone from "trust but verify" to "appease and surrender."
Obama
directive waters down military custody for terror detainees. President Obama nullified major provisions of the
2012 Defense Authorization law on Tuesday that would have mandated military custody for terrorist suspects. In a directive issued
Tuesday evening [2/28/2012], Obama cited national security interests as he gave federal law enforcement power over the military to
investigate and prosecute terrorism cases.
Tricare Fury. The WFB's recent report on an Obama
administration proposal to slash health care benefits for active duty and retired military has sparked a fierce
reaction against the White House from friends of the American military. The American Action Network,
meanwhile, has started a Facebook petition to tell "the president that our men and women in uniform should
come before his union cronies."
Tar and Feathers for Ray Mabus.
Navy Secretary Mabus, like Obama, believes that our armed services are political tools, playthings to be splashed
about like toys in a toddler's bathtub. ... Under Mabus and Obama, our Navy has shrunk to World War I levels,
women are serving on submarines and we are spending untold millions or billions on "greening" the navy. The
Marine Corps is about to be cut massively and the navy's shipbuilding program is being delayed, resulting in a
force that may be over-stressed or even incapable of doing its job in the next crisis.
This
budget guts defense. Tuesday's Associated Press report that President Obama is considering large
cuts in our strategic arsenal is just the latest of this week's grim news about the president's national-defense
plans. On nukes, the administration is apparently pondering reductions of up to 80 percent of deployed
warheads — a breathtaking slash to our nuclear-deterrence posture. This comes on top of troubling
plans outlined in the president's fiscal year 2013 budget proposal.
Obama plans to reduce our nuclear weapons to virtually
nothing. [Scroll down] Today [2/15/2012], it was announced that Obama plans to reduce our nuclear weapons
to virtually nothing (an 80% reduction) and less than either China or Russia possesses. The dictator-in-chief is bent
upon making the USA a target for both nukes and takeover by hostile forces as soon as possible. Our own corrupt Congress
and US military leaders are currently silent — with only crickets being heard in the distance. In this,
silence = concurrence.
We Dare Call It Treason. Close on the heels
of threatening to eviscerate America's defense budget and cripple our ability to defend ourselves on more than one front,
Barrack Hussein Obama-Soetoro is now pushing for cutting our nuclear weapons force by up to 80 percent, to a level less
than that of his idols, the Communist Chinese. We have come to expect the leftist Democrat Party to want defense cuts,
but the proposals being thrust upon us by the squatter in the White House will leave us wide open to devastating attack from
nearly every quarter.
Obama Budget to Spend
1.5 Times as Much on Health Care as on Defense. President Obama's 2013 budget will spend 1.5 times as
much money on health care as on Defense, including the cost of the continuing war in Afghanistan in 2013. According
to the budget proposal, Obama will spend a combined $941 billion on federal health care spending, including Medicare,
Medicaid, and funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which administers ObamaCare programs as well
as the National Institutes of Health.
Obama Wants
to Cut U.S. Nukes by 80 Percent. Weeks ago, President Obama gutted our ground forces in favor of entitlement
programs. Now, his administration plans to cut the U.S. nuke arsenal by 80 percent. It is clear
President Obama is more than happy to weaken America as a military force in the world.
Nuking our Nukes. President Obama has ordered the
Pentagon to consider cutting U.S. strategic nuclear forces to as low as 300 deployed warheads — below the
number believed to be in China's arsenal and far fewer than current Russian strategic warhead stocks. Pentagon
and military planners were asked to develop three force levels for the U.S. arsenal of deployed strategic nuclear
warheads: a force of 1,100 to 1,000 warheads; a second scenario of between 700 and 800 warheads; and the
lowest level of between 300 and 400 warheads.
Obama
Administration Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament Disaster. The only country that can be disarmed by
President Obama is ours. Period. So why would any President/Commander-in-Chief do this? ... It's
like he's trying to earn that [2009 Nobel Prize] award that was already given.
Replacement
of war-worn equipment cut in budget. The Pentagon is not just cutting manpower to reach deficit-reduction
targets: Its 2013 budget, released Monday, shows the military will spend less to replace old weapons after
two grueling wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gutting
America's military is no way to keep the peace. Nobody disputes that the Pentagon could do a better
job of spending the billions of dollars needed to keep America free at home and prepared for the unexpected from
abroad. The Defense Department, after all, is a government bureaucracy, and bureaucracies can always be
made more efficient. But a dangerous movement is gathering pace in Congress, on college campuses, and
across the mainstream media to reduce the U.S. military to levels not seen since the early Clinton years.
New
Pentagon plan would cut ground forces by 100,000. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta unveiled a plan
Thursday [1/26/2012] that would cut nearly a half-trillion dollars from the defense budget over the next decade
by retiring older planes and ships, delaying some projects and shrinking U.S. ground forces by about 100,000.
The plan would reduce the size of the Army by 80,000 soldiers by 2017, bringing the force size to a level
slightly larger than it was on 9/11.
Obama's Strategy for
Disaster. Yesterday [1/26/2012] the Obama administration revealed how it plans to reorient our military in
order to pay for the half a trillion dollars it wants in defense cuts over the next decade. Under the guise of
creating a "leaner, meaner" and more mobile force, President Obama and Secretary of Defense Panetta will actually leave
us with an Army, Navy, and Air Force that can be everywhere but fight nowhere; that's able to act quickly but not
decisively, and with few resources to deal with the unexpected — which tends to be the norm in strategic
affairs — or project real power where it counts.
With a Leaner
Military, a Long List of Potential Threats. Following his long-awaited announcement detailing a proposal for
massive defense spending cuts and an overall reduction in military personnel, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed his
list of the risks and the most pressing threats to America's security. "This is going to be tough," Panetta told
reporters Thursday [1/26/2012].
New
space-arms control initiative draws concern. John R. Bolton, a former U.N. ambassador who held
Ms. Tauscher's post during the George W. Bush administration, said the initiative is symptomatic of the Obama
administration's ideological commitment to arms talks. "This is mindless," Mr. Bolton said in an email.
"The last thing the United States needs is a space code of conduct. The ideology of arms control has already
failed in the Russian 'reset' policy, and it is sure to fail here as well."
Americans, Lend Me Your
Eyes. [Scroll down] Obama announced last week drastic shrinking of U.S. armed forces,
including retreat from Europe. Fiscal reality cannot be ignored, and the detailed plan deserves scrutiny
by Congress and informed citizenry. One key assumption of the plan is alarming: it will leave the
U.S. unable to fight two major conflicts at the same time. Think of what this says to current or potential
adversaries -- e.g., Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, al-Qaeda.
Obama Scissorhands.
There are two ways to react to President Obama's latest round of defense spending cuts. One is emotional
but somewhat justified. The second is to analyze of Obama's plans critically to reveal a transformation of
our military that is as dangerous as Obama's transformation of our economy.
Editor's note:
All the articles below speak for themselves. Barack H. Obama (a/k/a Barry Soetoro) is systematically dismantling and
weakening the Department of Defense. What I find most puzzling is the silence of the news media and the inaction of the
Congress in response to Mr. Obama's revelation of military secrets to the Russian government, including the exact number of
warheads in our nuclear arsenal.
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[3] That, in my opinion, is an act
of treason.
Treason. Under Article
III, Section 3, of the Constitution, any person who levies war against the United States or adheres
to its enemies by giving them Aid and Comfort has committed treason within the meaning of the
Constitution. The term aid and comfort refers to any act that manifests a betrayal of
allegiance to the United States, such as furnishing enemies with arms, troops, transportation,
shelter, or classified information. If a subversive act has any tendency to weaken the power of the
United States to attack or resist its enemies, aid and comfort has been given.
Obama
To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow. Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed
allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow. Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as
those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic. Obama
pulled the plug when Moscow objected.
The
Top 5 Reasons Obama Must Be Removed as Commander-in-Chief. [#5] Hollowing Out Our Military:
This week we learn that Obama is slashing the defense budget, planning to lay off 14% off our troops, reduce
our nuclear arsenal, shelve key weapon systems and explicitly cripple our ability to wage ground wars. What
hath Saul Alinsky wrought! Already, Obama has strait-jacketed the military in political correctness,
forbidding discussion of the nature of radical Islam and sanitizing the jihad-crazed murder of 13 soldiers
at Fort Hood into "workplace violence." But that was not enough for our Commander-in-Chief.
Obamalateral
Disarmament Dooms Arsenal Of Democracy. Portrayed as just a shuffling of priorities, the president's
defense cuts reduce our two-war strategy to maybe one war and cross your fingers. Champagne corks are
popping from Beijing to Tehran.
Obama's Indefensible
Cuts. In outlining his new defense strategy yesterday [1/5/2012], President Obama became the first
commander-in-chief to speak from the Pentagon's pressroom. Unfortunately, he used the occasion to introduce
nearly $500 billion in cuts that are likely to weaken the national security of the United States.
The
Price of Obama's Peace Dividend Is an Increased Risk of War. The perception and appearance of
overwhelming strength will make the actual need for that same overwhelming strength unnecessary. The
appearance of weakness, on the other hand, is as much an invitation to aggression as pasting a "kick me"
sign to your own back. Obama should realize this more than just about any other politician that
has ever lived.
Obama Proposes
Crippling Cuts To U.S. Military. How can we propose massive cuts in the number of
uniformed military when we are paying for NPR? How can he cut the Marine Corps by 10% when
he won't cut the Department of Energy or the Department of Education? Answer: This is
Obama's strategy for the world, rooted in a deep, profound suspicion of American exceptionalism and
American military power.
Obama's Motto:
President Obama is calling for dramatic defense cuts that could threaten our national survival while obstructing
structural reforms to our entitlement programs that are essential for our national financial survival.
It just doesn't get much worse than this.
Don't
gut our defense budget. Supporters of the cuts claim we spend too much on defense, but our defense
spending is actually quite low. Today, we spend 3.9% of our Gross Domestic Product on defense. In the 1960s,
we spent 9.5% of our GDP to secure the nation. As recently as the 1980s, 6.2% of the country's economic output was
spent on defense.
Air Force Will Lose Hundreds of Planes in New
Pentagon Plan. The Air Force is preparing to trim hundreds of aircraft from its aging fleet in
order to meet an Obama administration austerity order. The move will strike many Air Force supporters as
ironic. Because just as the fleet is set to shrink, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is getting ready to
argue, at least implicitly, that the country needs it more than ever.
Five
ways Obama weakened America in 2011. [Scroll down] With more than $1 trillion in
defense cuts looming over the next decade, Mr. Obama is hollowing out the military like we haven't seen since
Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Already the Navy's 284 ships are the least in service since
before World War I. Meanwhile, the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps are shrinking by tens of
thousands — meaning more numerous and longer deployments overseas. Major weapons systems are
facing delay or elimination, which will hurt our industrial base.
It's a little late to ask this question: Are
Our Nuclear Secrets Safe In Obama's Hands? The administration is considering reviving a '90s-era
nuclear scientist exchange program with China. Does no one in the White House remember how much damage
the previous arrangement caused?
Gutting Defense Results In Cutting Jobs.
The head of the House Armed Services Committee says already enacted and looming defense cuts could cost the economy
a million and a half jobs. It could cost the nation much more than that.
Last F-22 Raptor
Rolls Off Assembly Line. The final F-22 Raptor fighter jet rolled off the assembly line during
a ceremony at the Lockheed Martin aircraft plant at Dobbins Air Reserve Base. The U.S. military is
turning to the less costly F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to complement its operational fleet of 187 Raptors,
amid concerns in Washington that the $153 million F-22 is too costly and too high-tech for its own good.
Jet
Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra. SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending.
The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous
$16 per gallon.
The Volt Administration.
The headline reads like a piece from the Onion: "U.S. Navy Paying $15/Gallon for Green Fuel." ... "We are
doing this for one simple reason," explained Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, "It makes us better war fighters. Our
use of fossil fuels is a very real threat to our national security and to the U.S. Navy's ability to protect America
and project power overseas." Really? As long as a fuel makes the ships, planes and submarines go, how
does using pricey biofuel mixtures improve the war fighting capacity of the Navy?
Navy blue goes green.
Even as the scientific validation of global-warming theory crumbles, adherents in Washington have dragooned the
U.S. military into leading the charge toward renewable energy. The Navy made headlines last week with the
revelation that it has been ordered to purchase 450,000 gallons of biofuel to power its jet fighters.
Conventional jet fuel costs about $4 a gallon, but the biofuel made from fermented algae will set back the
service about $16 a gallon.
Navy
Biofuel Deal is 'Cost Prohibitive,' 'Another Solyndra,' Critics Say. The Obama administration's
deal to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuel for Navy jets comes at a cost of up to nine times higher than regular
fuel, a spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said, coming at a time when the U.S. military is already
facing deep budget cuts.
Obama's war on decency.
On Dec. 1, the story broke that Bethesda-based Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where wounded
veterans convalesce, apparently had banned visitors from bringing in Bibles or other religious items. ... The
policy was rescinded, but that it was imposed at all is a reminder of the culture President Obama has fostered
in the armed forces and executive agencies, where extreme environmentalism, moral relativism and sexual immorality
have replaced traditional American values. We shouldn't really be surprised when a bureaucrat tries to bar
Bibles in a U.S. military stateside hospital while other bureaucrats make sure terrorists in Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, get copies of the Koran.
Has Obama Set the Stage for Pearl Harbor
All Over Again? High unemployment and a weak defense attract aggressors: Germany and
Japan in the 1930s. Iran and North Korea today. And maybe Russia. The more decrepit our
defense, the more aggressive the tyrants will be.
Pentagon defends sodomy rule
change. Conservative groups are upset over a proposed change in the defense bill that would eliminate
Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Defense bill
repeals military law on sodomy. Recently passed Senate legislation would make sodomy and sex with
animals legal under military law, ending long-standing prohibitions and triggering cries of perversion from
conservative groups.
Update: Defense
Bill Will Not Include Provision Legalizing Sodomy, Bestiality in Military. Despite a plea from the
Obama administration that the military ban on sodomy and bestiality be repealed, a House-Senate conference
committee has restored the ban to the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act. The
sodomy-bestiality ban would have been repealed by the version of the bill that had been approved by the Senate.
PETA
Rebukes White House.
President Obama's special envoy to the United Nations Climate Change conference said that a Green Climate Fund, reportedly
funded in part through a financial currency tax that would hit Americans hardest, is "rapidly" approaching. "We are
in the international context going to be, hopefully, and I believe that this will be the case, rapidly setting up the Green
Fund," Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change, told reporters at the UN conference. "We will also be
working hard to ramp up the funding that is supposed to reach a 100 billion dollars a year by 2020."
Senate
Approves Bill that Legalizes Sodomy and Bestiality in U.S. Military. The Senate on Thursday evening [12/1/2011]
voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military
law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals — or bestiality.
Military
advocates decry 'illegal' early terminations of 157 Air Force majors. The Chapman University of
Military Law and its associated AMVETS Legal Clinic are blowing the whistle on what they say is an injustice set
to be perpetrated on 157 Air Force majors on the last day of November. "The Obama administration has ordered
massive reductions in forces, resulting in many officers who are near retirement being involuntarily separated
without retirement or medical benefits," explained institute director Maj. Kyndra Rotunda.
157
Air Force Majors terminated without retirement benefits. One of the best ways to destroy American
military capabilities would be to convince career military personnel — both officers and
enlisted — that their commitment to service will not be rewarded with the retirement benefits they
have earned by their faithful obedience to orders, no matter the personal cost or risks they endure. The
Obama administration seems to be ready to destroy the belief that service will be rewarded as faithfully as
duty was performed, one step at a time.
Krauthammer:
Obama gave up 'governance,' now running 'an Occupy Wall Street campaign'. Almost immediately
after the congressional deficit reduction super committee called it quits on trying to reach a deal on federal
budget cuts, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged Congress to stop the automatic across-the-board cuts, warning
they would "tear a seam in the nation's defense." That's a near-complete contradiction to what his boss,
President Barack Obama, said following the news. Obama promised to veto any efforts by Congress to stop
the cuts.
Defenseless:
America in the Twenty First Century. Under the guise of addressing the debt crisis, President Obama
is leaving America exposed to multi-pronged attack by myriad hostile powers. Necessities like national
defense are being sacrificed on the altar of handouts to constituents. Arguably secondary entitlement
programs have supplanted the primary necessity of a strong national defense capable of deterring aggression.
To state the obvious, the vital security needs of the nation can not be replaced with a one-time shot of welfare
utopia. What nation or civilization has ever survived that has turned inward, gratifying pleasure and
consumption over the preservation of outer-defenses? Rome serves as only one pertinent example among
many. Leaving America defenseless is indefensible.
Border Patrol agents pulled off-task.
An immigration enforcement advocacy organization is outraged over the Department of Homeland Security's latest directive
the group says appears to be nothing more than an effort to aid illegal immigration. The Associated Press reported
recently the DHS issued a directive to U.S. Border Patrol field offices around the country, instructing officers to
halt routine checks at transportation hubs that are not "intelligence-driven."
U.S.
relaxes Canadian border checks. The U.S. Border Patrol has quietly stopped its controversial practice
of routinely searching buses, trains and airports for illegal immigrants at transportation hubs along the northern
border and in the nation's interior, preventing agents from using what had long been an effective tool for tracking
down people here illegally, it has been revealed.
Where Are the Grownups?
U.S. forces are engaged in Libya, Somalia and Yemen. And Afghanistan and — for the moment —
Iraq. If we are to take on every murderous militia in Africa, we'll need a lot more troops than we're
going to have after Obama's cuts to defense spending. Those cuts are about to be increased massively by
the "super committee" created by the August budget ceiling deal. The "super committee" will deadlock
because the Democrats are insisting that Republicans agree to massive tax hikes before they even discuss spending
cuts. And when the deadlock happens, it will be up to some grownups among congressional Republicans to
prevent destruction of our military if they can. They probably can't because they agreed to the trigger
mechanism already, and Obama is standing by to veto any restoration of essential military and intelligence
spending.
Cut the red wire first! Last
B53 nuclear bomb to be dismantled today. The nearly 50-year history of the country's single
most powerful nuclear weapon is coming to an end. Workers at the nation's only nuclear weapon
assembly and disassembly facility will spend less than an hour today doing the final work to dismantle
the last B53 — the United States' most destructive weapon — which weighs about
10,000 pounds and is roughly the size of a minivan.
Disarming America's Military.
[Scroll down] The report contemplated cuts that would "eliminate 60 ships, two carrier battle
groups, and over 200,000 troops through 2021. The Army would lose ground combat vehicles. The Navy
would suffer cuts in ship building and replacements for older ships. The Air Force would likely lose the
next generation bombers and aerial refueling tanker aircraft. The Marine Corps would lose personnel
carriers and indefinitely postpone replacements for new amphibious assault vehicles and ships.
Report:
Budget cuts would hollow military. A new congressional report spells out in detail
how the military would become "hollow" if Congress' super committee fails to agree on deficit
reductions and $1 trillion in automatic spending cuts kick in. The Army and Marine
Corps would lose 200,000 troops, bringing active strength "well below" pre-Sept. 11, 2001,
levels, and the armed forces would not be able to carry out its essential mission, says a 14-page
analysis by the Republican majority staff of the Housed Armed Services Committee.
Armed
Services chairman: Obama is anti-military. "It is my suspicion that the White House and
congressional Democrats" designed the supercommittee process "for one purpose: to force Republicans to
choose between raising taxes or gutting defense," said California Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, the House
Armed Services Committee chairman. Mr. McKeon also lashed out at the administration's defense and
security policies that he asserted are based on a negative view of U.S. power in the world.
Would
Obama Retaliate against a Nuclear Attack? What if a Muslim country, such as Iran, launched a
nuclear attack against us, or if agents aligned with Pakistan using dirty bombs were to attack America?
Would Barack Hussein Obama retaliate with nuclear force, as has been our stated policy since the 1950s?
Would he even unleash a barrage of non-nuclear shock and awe that would level those countries so that they'd
be incapable of striking a second time?
White House Dangerously Fickle About State Secrets.
Unfortunately, the exposure of operational details in the bin Laden raid was only the latest example of the
administration casting our security to the wind. Obama, within his first hundred days in office,
publicized secret memos on our interrogation techniques such as the approach used by the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) to interrogate terrorists such as 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Those memos
revealed the steps we use to extract information to prevent terrorist attacks.
Blue Angels to fly on
biofuels. When the six F/A-18 Hornets in the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team
thrill the crowds at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River Air Expo in Maryland this weekend, they'll be soaring
on biofuel. Each of the six Hornets will be powered by a 50/50-blend of jet fuel and camelina-based
biofuel, according to a Navy press release.
Obama the biofool.
Leftists see the military more as a playground for kooky ideas than as the primary responsibility of the federal
government. Consider the scheme President Obama announced Tuesday that will have the armed forces devote
a great deal of time, money and energy to switch to so-called advanced biofuels. Underneath the trendy
"green" label, however, is a classic example of pork-barrel politics.
Don't Hollow Out the
Military. Under President Obama, the Defense Department's budget has already been
reduced by some $430 billion. Now, thanks to this "compromise," the security portfolios
will be reduced by a further $350 billion in the first round of cuts. Then, in the
fine print of the debt-ceiling deal, a twelve-member bicameral "super committee" will recommend
a second round of cuts...
The
Danger of a Weak American President. As president, he is commander-in-chief of the American
military, America's head of state and the Leader of the Free World. The world, however, now sees that
America's president is weak. He does not command the Congress or the confidence of the American people.
He refused to pull the trigger on Moammar Gaddafi, matching his actions to his words. With seventeen
months to go in his term, the president presently appears unlikely to win reelection — or his
party to retain control of one House of Congress. This is dangerous. In this wicked world,
it is important that the American president be feared. This one is not.
Obama's
Intent to Gut the Military. President Obama continues to push the notion that he wants a "balanced
approach" to budget cuts, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the only spending cuts he is willing to
contemplate are cuts in defense spending.
Military
leaders know Obama's decision is a disaster. Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice
but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice. They could resign, of course,
but to have the entire senior military leadership resign over a president's decision contrary to their
advice would be a disaster, and not least for the troops on the ground.
The president may be
sabotaging his own Afghanistan strategy. President Obama failed to offer a convincing military
or strategic rationale for the troop withdrawals from Afghanistan that he announced Wednesday night. In
several ways, they are at odds with the strategy adopted by NATO, which aims to turn over the war to the
Afghan army by the end of 2014.
Is
Obama Stacking The West Point Board With Activists? President Obama on Tuesday [7/5/2011]
appointed an openly gay former Army officer to the U.S. Military Academy's Board of Visitors. Former
Capt. Brenda S. "Sue" Fulton, a founding board member of OutServe, an association of actively serving gay
military personnel, is also co-founder and executive director of Knights Out, an organization of gay West Point
graduates. She graduated in 1980 with the first West Point class to include women.
A
Clueless, Callous Commander-in-Chief. Obama's bumbling, bungled delivery at Fort Drum
yesterday represents far more than mere confusion; it clearly demonstrates a lack of care, an inattention
to detail in matters very important to his audience, an insensitivity to the families of dead warriors, a
dismissive disrespect of SSGT Giunta, and a casual slap in the face to the entire United States military.
The Plot to Destroy the US Military.
In two generations we have gone from General Patton telling his troops to grease their tanks with the enemy's
guts to an extensive purge of Navy command officers over a series of raunchy video skits. Slowly but
surely we are turning the greatest armed forces into the world, into the most politically correct disarmed
forces the world has ever seen.
The Obama 4 year
plan to re-make America. [Scroll down] President Obama continues to posture himself
against the informed judgment of seasoned military personnel on the ground. He gratuitously procrastinates
when called upon to provide the reinforcements needed to bring a resolution to the two major conflicts we are
presently engaged in; and his progressive impulses compel him to view the military culture as one that
should epitomize the cardinal liberal virtues of "diversity" and "tolerance".
Affirmative action is coming to the Pentagon. Report says too many
whites, men leading military. The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and
needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent
report for Congress said Monday [3/7/2011].
Mindless Push for 'Diversity' in the Military
Won't Win Wars. There are too many white men in the U.S. military. So says a report
released this week by the Military Leadership Diversity Commission (MLDC), commissioned by Congress to
examine ways to "increase diversity" in the military. The MLDC report finds that 77% of active-duty
senior officers are white, 8% black, 5% Hispanic, and 16% women (of unspecified race). What's the answer
to this "problem"? Is the MLDC recommending that white males stop volunteering for military service?
Do they want to start "selecting" who among them volunteers for service?
US spy spending revealed for
first time, tops $80 billion. The United States spent $80 billion on spy activities
in 2010, the first time the government has officially announced the total tab for intelligence spending.
The amount included $53.1 billion on non-military intelligence programs, a 6 percent boost
from the previous year, according to a statement released Thursday [10/28/2010] by the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence.
US agrees to announce
missile launches. The United States has agreed to notify other nations before it launches most
ballistic missile tests or satellites, in a measure that builds on a landmark arms agreement with Russia and
is meant to encourage Moscow to reciprocate.
Loose lips sink ships. U.S. is expected to
reveal size of nuclear stockpile. The Obama administration is likely to reveal a closely guarded
secret — the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile — during a critical meeting starting
Monday [5/3/2010] at which Washington will try to strengthen the global treaty that curbs the spread of nuclear
weapons, several officials said.
Obama's nuclear spill.
The Obama administration has revealed — for the first time ever — the size of the U.S.
nuclear arsenal in detail. This information was a closely guarded secret for more than 60 years.
By unloading such sensitive information, President Obama is responsible for deliberately exposing a chink
in America's defensive armor.
5,113. Five thousand, one hundred
thirteen. That's the number of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal. President Barack Obama has
told the world. ... Why did Obama do that? Why did he gratuitously divulge one of America's Top Secrets?
Gitmo
Detainees Serve Time By Playing Games. President Obama has not fulfilled his pledge to close
Guantanamo Bay, but he has brought detainees Skype, Playstation 3 and "life skills" classes.
While the 181 detainees currently being held in the prison on Cuba wait to learn their fates after the
administration fell through on its January 2010 deadline to move detainees out of the facility, 90 percent
now live in a "communal" environment that includes Skype, the online video chat service, and access to
a 17,000-book "library."
Obama's psychosis.
The heart of the Obama doctrine is the illusion that there is no war on terror. According to Mr. Obama
and the liberal elite, Islamic fascism is a figment of George W. Bush's fevered imagination — a
wild scheme concocted by militaristic neoconservatives to justify invading Iraq and imposing an American empire
in the Middle East. ... In short, the president is conveying that America no longer views radical Islam as the
enemy. Mr. Obama desperately wants everyone to get along. The Islamists, however, don't.
Obama the appeaser.
Iran is on the march. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once again defied the West —
and President Obama — in his quest to acquire nuclear weapons. The Persian fascist strongman
is now months away from arming his Shi'ite revolutionary regime with the means to destroy Israel and blackmail
the West.
White House official calls terrorist group "a
very interesting organization". The downward spiral toward coffee and pastries between the White
House and one of the world's bloodiest, most-notorious terrorist organizations continues. And based on a
Tuesday [5/18/2010] report in Reuters, this spiral may be tightening into an irrecoverable flat spin.
Gates To Navy: Anchors
Away. Our defense secretary proposes doing what no other foreign adversary has done: sink
the U.S. Navy. We don't need those billion-dollar destroyers, he says. Meanwhile, the Chinese
navy rushes to fill the vacuum.
Security
Policy by Bumper Sticker. Liberal approaches to foreign policy continue to rely more on wishful
thinking than on realism or maturity. But even in the context of liberalism, President Obama's recent
policy declarations on the matter of nuclear weapons are juvenile and disturbing. Speaking in Prague,
the president declared, "I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security
of a world without nuclear weapons." Has the president really thought this through?
Obama Appeases U.S. Muslims. The
New York Times reported Monday [4/19/2010], with no hint that it understood the implications of what it
was reporting, that Barack Obama is reaching out to Hamas-linked groups in the United States, while hamstringing
our response to the terror threat by making obfuscation of the ideology of jihad terrorists official U.S. policy.
America's Nuclear Surrender.
The administration proudly reveals a state secret to our enemies before a U.N. conference on nuclear nonproliferation.
It wants to lead by example on disarmament, but Iran and North Korea aren't following. Not since the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact that sought to outlaw war as an instrument
of national policy has there been such a stunning display of dangerous naivete.
To this president, there's no such thing as an Islamic extremist. Obama's jihad on 'jihad'.
President Obama's latest strategic innovation in the war on terrorism is to ignore jihad and maybe it will go
away. The Obama administration is removing terms such as "jihad" and "Islamic extremism" from the U.S.
National Security Strategy in an attempt to convince Muslim countries that America doesn't view them solely
through the lens of counterterrorism. It's reasonable to look beyond terrorism in developing relationships
with Islamic states. ... But the National Security Strategy is not some kind of outreach initiative, it is
the framing document for America's global safety.
What the Euphemisms
Tell Us. In the latest installment of politically correct, not to say Orwellian, language emanating
from the Obama administration, the term "rogue states" has been sidelined in favor of "outliers." The switch
was unveiled as part of the just released Nuclear Posture Review. States like North Korea and Iran, labeled
"rogue" by the Bush administration, will no longer labor under that punitive adjective.
Nuclear
posturing, Obama-style. Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves
making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its
purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
Obama Stands with
Muslims as He Promised. Though the president is taking great public pains to appear tough on
terror and the real terrorists — as opposed to the imaginary ones (i.e., conservatives and Tea
Partiers) — Barack Obama has actually gone to great lengths to make sure others like Shahzad remain
utterly undisturbed. Others who at this very minute remain undetected among us, ready to strike
on orders from radicalized Imams or terror-army chiefs, walk among us, now knowing that they have a true
friend and protector in the White House. Barack Obama has successfully purged from the national
discourse on terrorism — excuse me, "man-made disasters" — any mention of the
religion/political ideology which is the undeniable common denominator.
Responding
to question, Cantor says 'no one thinks' Obama is a domestic 'enemy'. A person from the audience
asked [House Minority Whip Eric] Cantor, "In light of what Obama has done to leave us vulnerable, to cut defense
spending to make us vulnerable to our outside enemies, to slight our allies ... what would he have to do
differently to be defined as a domestic enemy?" After pausing for several moments to let the crowd's
laughter and head nodding dissipate, Cantor was received with low-level boos when he responded, "No one thinks
that the president is a domestic enemy," Cantor said.
The Beginning of USA Disarmament.
What our Founders warned against has now come to pass — in the form of a clear and present danger. The
Obama announced, today, that he had made a deal with Russia to reduce the USA's nuclear arsenal by 30%.
Russia is supposed to reduce its arsenal, also, but we suspect that will not occur.
An 'Inept'
President's 'Left-Wing Dream'. President Obama's revamping of American nuclear policy is the
mark of an "inept" leader intent on living a "left-wing dream," says Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New
York City, in an interview with National Review Online. "A nuclear-free world has been a 60-year dream
of the Left, just like socialized health-care. This new policy, like Obama's government-run health
program, is a big step in that direction."
Obama's national
security giveaway. Details are scarce on the new START Treaty to be signed in Moscow on April 8th,
but if I read accounts correctly, President Obama has given a major American strength by limiting American
delivery systems, not just warheads.
Obama Walks The Atomic Plank.
President Obama jam-packed early April with events that overhaul America's nuclear weapons policies which
shout naivety and weakness. Last year, Obama laid out his vision for a nuclear-weapons-free world before
a cheering crowd in Prague, the Czech Republic.
The World Is About To Get a Whole Lot More Dangerous.
For more than 60 years, the United States has been the pre-eminent nuclear power in the world, and the
world has been safer as a result. ... Now, President Barack Obama is determined to abandon six decades of
proven nuclear deterrent policy in favor of a fantasy that he can rid the world of these dangerous weapons
by tying America's hands behind our backs.
No
finish in sight for 'virtual' border fence. A multibillion-dollar "virtual fence" along the
southwestern border promised for completion in 2009 to protect the U.S. from terrorists, violent drug
smugglers and a flood of illegal immigrants is a long way from becoming a reality, with government
officials unable to say when, how or whether it will ever be completed.
Obama's Revisionist History of Terrorism:
Since taking office, Obama's key objective on terrorism has been to transform the public perception of it from
an international military conflict, to a limited domestic criminal problem. Renaming terrorism to the
bureaucratically euphonious term, "Man Caused Disasters" was straight out of the first rule in the textbook of
organizational coverups, to phrase your sentences so that the identity of the perpetrators of the crisis remain
as vague as possible.
Islamic
Terrorism on the Rise Since Obama Became President. Islamic terrorism is on the rise both
domestically and internationally since Obama became President in 2009, according to a count of high-profile,
terrorism incidents in 2009, both in the US and abroad. The number of Islamic terrorism incidents
worldwide since Obama took office in 2009, including both domestic and international acts of terrorism,
is on pace to surpass more than 1000 for all of 2009, according to a report by the American Security
Project which is a bipartisan, Washington-based group.
Detroit
bomber 'singing like a canary' before arrest. President Barack Obama is under fire over
claims that the Christmas Day underwear bomber was "singing like a canary" until he was treated as an
ordinary criminal and advised of his right to silence.
Making the
Taliban-Al Qaida counterstrategy easy. It's not fear of 30,000 more American combat boots on
the ground that will make the enemy literally head for the hills. It's the President's advertisement
that he hopes to withdraw most American forces by July of 2011.
Obama and Plummeting
Military Morale. In an act of deep interpersonal significance, as Claudia Rosett observes, the
president has not bothered to visit Afghanistan to bolster morale. Yet to buck up his foreign policy
credentials, Obama managed to make a campaign stop there while running for president. Once elected, he
found time to extend a friendly hand to Muslims in Cairo, lobby for Chicago's Olympics bid, vacation in
Martha's Vineyard, and have a "date night" in New York City with his wife. Soon he'll be off to Oslo to
accept a Nobel Peace Prize, which he has done nothing yet to deserve in Afghanistan, at home, or elsewhere
in the world.
Obama Outlaws Legal
Interrogation Methods, With An Out. President Obama signed a few 'National Security' Executive Orders around
noon today [1/22/2009], apparently designed to increase the rights of illegal combatants — terrorists — that
are trying to kill as many of us as possible. They were all remarkable, but perhaps the most troubling is the
order on interrogation techniques for detainees in the War on Terror.
Repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell Would
Be a Disaster. It's been one week since Barack Obama was sworn in as commander-in-chief and the
new president has not hesitated to push his agenda — the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.
Although "the primary purpose of the armed forces is to prepare for and to prevail in combat should the need
arise", forcing the military to legitimize same-sex relationships will be a Trojan Horse for imposing gay
marriage nationwide and all in the name of "change."
Obama Cannot Fulfill Vow to Put
Homosexuals in Military Unless Congress Changes the Law. Although President-elect Barack Obama
has vowed to open the U.S. armed forces to homosexuals, he cannot fulfill this promise unless Congress passes
new legislation repealing the existing statute that expressly prohibits homosexuals from serving in the
military. Legislation to do this will be proposed in the current Congress by Rep. Ellen Tauscher
(D-Calif.).
Senate Armed Service Chairman Says
He Supports Repealing Law that Bans Homosexuals. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee told CNSNews.com Friday [1/30/2009] that he supports overturning the law that prohibits homosexuals
from serving in the military. Speaking at a news briefing Friday, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said that he
has always supported overturning a law that says homosexuality is incompatible with military service.
The False Hopes of Gay America.
Barack Obama's team just announced, unequivocally, that he will repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the policy
enacted by Bill Clinton to allow (and in fact force) gays in the military to hide their sexuality. This
is good news for much of the gay community, which seems to believe whole-heartedly that it has a new best
friend in Barack Obama.
Obama
Promises to Keep Working Until 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Signed Into Law. Celebrating LGBT pride
month at the White House this evening, President Obama declared that the nation has never been closer to
ending the "discriminatory policy" of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and promised to keep working until the bill is
signed into law.
Obama's Moralizing Tone May Not Wear Well.
Two days into his presidency, Barack Obama delivered on his most celebrated and ardently pledged campaign
promise — the imposition of stringent limitations on the ways in which U.S. agents can question
terror suspects, an executive order mandating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and the
freezing of all detainee prosecutions. That last request brought an eloquent reply from Col. James
Pohl, Guantanamo's chief military judge, who promptly said no. He declared the directive to freeze all
trials "not reasonable" — a description that could as well apply to the whole of the
administration's program for our moral cleansing and reformation in intelligence gathering.
Obama's
Outreach To Muslims Won't Achieve Goal. The decision by President Obama to close the prison at
Guantanamo Bay and open a dialogue with the Muslim world is unlikely to achieve its principal objective, which
is to undermine the appeal of al-Qaida. The reason for this is that attacks like Sept. 11, 2001,
spring from deep spiritual causes and are not the result of American political behavior. In his
interview with the Arabic television station, al Arabiya, Obama missed the moral dimension of the struggle
with terrorism completely.
The End of the
Beginning of the War on Terror. The War on Terror did not start on 9/11. We can argue
semantics, but until the ongoing struggle against extremists materially changes we will continue to use
the aforementioned name. And with a new administration, al-Qaeda does not seem to sit idle while
President Obama instills new initiatives to combat them. The second in command of al-Qaeda, Ayman
al-Zawahiri, continues to mock and belittle the United States in front of his supporters. It is safe to
conclude that al-Qaeda will not give the new president a honeymoon and will continue to find ways of
attacking us.
President
needs reality check on defense. National calamity. That's where the United States might be
headed if several published reports are true that President Barack Obama has demanded that the Pentagon trim
its budget request by an astonishing 10 percent. The U.S. Armed Forces are already stretched too
thin, and proportional military spending has steadily declined for two solid decades after the brief spike
under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
Elections Have
Consequences. In the middle of not one but two shooting wars, President Obama has signaled that he intends to
slow defense spending. The anti-military chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, gleefully
announced that he intends to strip funds for weapon systems from the budget. Likely consequence: The armed
services will be unable either properly to "reset" the equipment and capabilities that have been used so intensively over
the last seven years or be prepared for the next conflict. History teaches such a posture invites foreign aggression
and costs far more than is saved through short-term and shortsighted cuts.
Obama's outrageous oversight:
President Obama clearly didn't do his homework before ordering the suspension of military tribunals to try terrorist suspects.
We have learned that even his own legal counsel admitted that Mr. Obama erred in discussing details about terrorism with
families of victims last week, and that the administration was ignorant of a key point that terrorists exploit to their
advantage. In his rush to fulfill a campaign promise to his more fervid anti-war supporters, the president's
legal oversights risk the disclosure of some highly classified information to terrorists.
Just Because. The AP reports
that Eric Holder was impressed with Guantánamo Bay. "Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday
the Guantanamo detention center is a well-run, professional facility that will be difficult to close-but he's still going to
do it." Well, naturally. The Obama administration is only interested in keeping poorly run enterprises going.
Bolton
criticizes 'radical' Obama as 'bad news' for U.S.. It was evident from the first few minutes of John R.
Bolton's speech to a conservative summit in the District on Thursday that, as harshly as he criticized former President
George W. Bush, that was nothing compared with how he will treat President Obama. ... "It's clear that our national
security is at risk in this administration," Mr. Bolton said.
Do You Feel Safer Now? Now that we have Janet
Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security, do you feel safer? I don't. Aunt Janet could not manage to say
words like "terrorism" or "9/11" in her recent testimony before a congressional committee. ... Democrats and, in particular,
those of an extreme Leftist point of view are always ready to embrace our enemies and blame America for any attacks or
other threats they pose.
Betraying Our Friends.
Appeasing Russia to "solve" Iran's nuclear ambitions is not the only disconcerting feature of President Obama's
approach to the world. Vital friends and allies are getting America's cold shoulder.
Beating Swords Into Bargaining
Chips. A Russian-built reactor undergoes operational tests in Iran. Tehran orbits a
satellite with an ICBM. Are we about to trade away proven missile defense for unproven and unreliable
Russian diplomacy?
The Administration
Kowtows. Over the last three weeks, the Obama administration has sent three clear signals to the
Chinese leadership. First came the news that Chas Freeman would chair the National Intelligence
Council. ... It's not hard to predict what line the intelligence community will take on China's military
buildup (or another Tiananmen) under Freeman's leadership. The Chinese will score their number two
victory with Gary Locke, former governor of Washington, becoming our new commerce secretary.
Is Obama Failing the Foreign Affairs Test? "Can't
we all get along... let's try to work it out." That was Rodney King's plaintive plea in May 1992 after his highly
controversial confrontation with the Los Angeles Police Department led to arson and anarchy. Now, seventeen years
later, the Obama administration has apparently made "just get along" their response to every national security test.
So far, it has been the wrong answer.
Obama
and Pentagon at Odds Over Nuclear Arsenal. President Obama's pledge to reduce nukes is greatly
at odds with a new report from the Department of Defense regarding America's nuclear weapons arsenal.
Enforcement Pays. With the widespread
murderous violence between warring Mexican drug cartels spilling over the U.S. border and the continuing
threat from radical Islamic terrorists domestic and foreign, the government has to spend its law enforcement
dollars where they can do the most good. Yet Democratic leaders in Congress and the Obama administration
appear ready to scale back one of the most successful and cost-effective immigration law enforcement
programs ever launched.
Obama
secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns. After the September 11 attacks, commercial
airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would
unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into
buildings. Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety
on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.
Obama Blasted for Diverting
Money From Armed Pilots Program. A Second Amendment group is blasting the Obama administration
for quietly seeking to end the program that allows pilots — after special training — to
carry guns in the cockpit. The move will make air travel more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, something
that should outrage travelers, said the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said.
Squaring Off With
Obama: I seem to recall Obama's partisans insisting that he would personally make the United States
popular the world over. Well, so far, he has certainly reached out to Cuba, Venezuela and Iran, and I
suppose if he actually closes Gitmo, Islamics will dance in the street of Tehran just before dropping the
bomb on Israel.
Rookie Mistake. Last month, as part of
his plans to "push the reset button" on U.S.-Russian relations, the new president sent a secret letter to his Russian
counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev. The missive reportedly contained a simple offer: America would move to scrap
Bush administration-era plans to deploy missile defenses in Eastern Europe in return for the Kremlin's help in dealing
with Iran's persistent nuclear ambitions. Russia's response was rapid — and far from enthusiastic.
Obama's Plan to End 'Don't Ask, Don't
Tell'. Whether President Barack Obama's plan to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and allow
homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces is a good idea, two Air Force leaders declined to say anything more
than they will follow the law, when asked by CNSNews.com on Tuesday [3/17/2009].
Liberals want more
defense spending left behind. President Obama is facing mounting pressure from his party's left
flank to cut defense spending so more money can be spent on social programs. ... The push from liberals comes
at a time when Obama has pledged to increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, and China and India have begun
to emerge as major military and economic powers. Embracing the idea while the country is still engaged
in conflicts overseas would reaffirm the notion to those on the right and in the center that Obama is a
classic liberal.
U.S. Defenseless Secretary.
What are the signals our enemies around the world are getting from the Obama administration? Appearing on
Fox News, Defense Secretary Robert Gates in effect shrugged when asked about the possibility of having to
shoot down a North Korean missile. "I think if we had an aberrant missile, one that was headed for
Hawaii, that looked like it was headed for Hawaii or something like that, we might consider it," he said,
"but I don't think we have any plans to do anything like that at this point." "Might"? Hawaiians
can't feel as safe as they did before hearing that blase attitude.
Clinton offers olive branch to
Taliban. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday [3/31/2009] at a U.N. conference
on Afghanistan that Taliban members in Afghanistan who abandoned extremism must be granted an "honorable form
of reconciliation." ... Clinton's comments echo those of U.S. President Barack Obama who said this month that
he was open to the idea of reaching out to moderate elements of the Taliban.
Obama's
Weakness Endangers Us All. North Korea has taken two American journalists prisoner and charged them
with committing "hostile acts" against the regime. Countries like North Korea, which are the pinnacle of
tyranny in the modern world, commit atrocities all the time. What they don't do is challenge America
directly — unless they perceive weakness.
A Kinder, Gentler War
on Terror? The move to create designations for our enemies and their inhumane actions that are
less precise, and considerably more innocuous in their connotations than their antecedents is no accident, and
goes far beyond simply wanting to demonstrate "change" from the policies of George W. Bush. As
someone once remarked, words have meaning, and names have power. While deliberately and tirelessly
stoking fear about the economy to both justify and obfuscate the gargantuan expansion of government and
attendant explosion of national debt contained in their first budget, Team Obama seeks to draw attention
away from the threat posed to the country by ruthless enemies of our way of life, and in fact all external
threats to our national security.
Obama yields
to 'collective action'. President Obama proclaimed Thursday that the era of the United States
attempting to dominate world affairs is over, saying he is committed to "collective action" by the 20 biggest
economies to end the worst financial crisis in 80 years. Giving substance to his rhetoric, the
president signed on to a radical revamping of the world's major financial institutions that surrenders the
traditional right of the United States and Europe to lead them.
Obama calls for reduction in nuclear
weapons. President Obama urged nations Sunday to get rid of nuclear weapons, saying that the U.S. is
committed to reducing nuclear stocks within the next four years.
Obama's
nuclear-free world. President Obama scored wild applause at the Strasbourg town meeting last
week when he declared his intention to "seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons." The idea
is not new. ... The United States and Russia have radically reduced their nuclear arsenals, from a peak of
more than 70,000 warheads during the Cold War to 3,900 today. However, this drawdown was not accomplished
through formal arms control; it was the natural consequence of reduced tensions after the collapse
of communism.
Bam Blinks.
North Korea's much-anticipated long-range missile launch on Sunday [4/5/2009] was a technical dud: The satellite
it was trying to put into orbit apparently landed in the Pacific Ocean. But the nuclear upstarts learned something
important about President Obama, so they're probably pleased. Speaking in Prague just hours after the launch, Obama
responded to the provocation by pledging to negotiate reductions in America's nuclear stockpile.
A
World Without Nukes — Just Like 1939. In Prague on Sunday [4/5/2009], President Obama
committed his administration to putting us on a "trajectory" toward "a world without nuclear weapons." Of
course, we had a world without nuclear weapons not so long ago — say, in 1939. The war that
began in that nuclear-free world led to a crash project to develop nuclear weapons.
Obama's
Unmacho Diplomacy. If George W. Bush was a cowboy, Obama is a group hug. He says we should
show leadership by listening. That we should work in partnership with others. That we should show
humility. This is, of course, pure porn for women. But unfortunately, women don't rule the world.
Men still do. And we have to worry whether Obama will be viewed as weak and the U.S., therefore, vulnerable.
Naif-in-Chief.
As far as nuclear weapons are concerned, the president of the United States wants America to disarm:
"Countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament." It is hard to imagine a more destructive
goal. A nuclear disarmed America would lead to massive and widespread killing, more genocide, and very
possibly the nuclear holocaust worldwide nuclear disarmament is meant to prevent. There is nothing
moral, let alone realistic, about this goal.
Shooting Down Missile Defense.
Overlooked in the defense budget cuts is the decimation of missile defense systems. As North Korea tested an
ICBM, our defense secretary was scrapping a system that could have destroyed it with a single shot.
America: caught between Barack and a hard
place. Obama's seeming lack of understanding about world realities is putting America at great risk.
Since the president has all but promised to de-claw the American military, how reluctant will Iran now be in pursuing its
hegemony over the Middle East, when it was already fairly pugnacious while George Bush was still in the White House?
Axing the Air Force: Production of the F-22
has been terminated. It is a fighter jet that would give us complete domination of the skies. ... Production
of the C-17 has also been terminated. Production of the Combat Search and Rescue Helicopter has also been
terminated. Production of the Multiple Kill Vehicle has also been terminated. F-15s, F-16s, and A-10s will
all leave the Force with no replacements. The budget of the Missile Defense Agency has been reduced
by $1.4 billion.
Naïvité Invites Aggression.
In response to North Korea's rocket launch, President Barack Obama has committed the U.S. to reducing our supply of nuclear
weapons, urged the passage of a ban on nuclear weapons testing, and through Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, proposed
scaling back our missile-defense program. In short, Mr. Obama apparently believes that the chief lesson to be learned
from Pyongyang's missile launch is the need for more arms-control initiatives. As a means of reducing the dangers of
nuclear proliferation and nuclear war, this makes no sense.
Obama and Gates Gut the Military.
On Monday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a significant reordering of U.S. defense programs. His
recommendations should not go unchallenged. ... The termination of the F-22 Raptor program at just 187 aircraft
inevitably wil call U.S. air supremacy — the salient feature, since World War II, of the American way
of war — into question. The need for these sophisticated, stealthy, radar-evading planes is
already apparent.
America The Patsy? Russia
tells the U.S. not to worry about a nuclear Iran and not to punish nuclear North Korea. Fidel Castro wants to help
the president, Russia's "new comrade." Are we being set up?
1,000+ Retired Officers Change Debate on Gays in the
Military. Despite mixed signals from the Obama administration, a distinguished group of retired leaders
called Flag & General Officers for the Military has taken a stand in support of the 1993 law stating that homosexuals
are not eligible to serve openly in the military.
Obama's unreal agenda:
When it comes to security policy, it seems everyone wants to be a "realist" these days. If that term has any
meaning, though, President Obama's nuclear weapons and missile defense policies certainly would not qualify.
To the contrary, these examples of what some call "progressive realism" constitute a near-parody of the ideologically
driven disarmament agenda of the radical left. If the implications were not so serious, the discrepancy
between Mr. Obama's plans and real-world conditions would be hilarious.
Obama
Sacrifices American Sovereignty. President Barack Obama recently rolled out a curious foreign policy.
This policy leaves American troops carrying all the risks in overseas combat, while lowering our defenses at the same time
dangerous regimes are developing their means of mass destruction. It also subjects American companies to foreign
control, as European leaders speak about a new, secular global order no longer led by the United States. President
Obama is sacrificing our sovereignty and safety in an increasingly perilous world.
A trip down
Jimmy Carter's memory lane. Would it have been better for the destructive deity unleashed at Los Alamos
64 years ago never to have been brought to life? Maybe, but since it was inevitable that it would be, it was
better for Roosevelt's scientists to have conjured it up than Hitler's — and better for them to have done so
four years earlier than Stalin's. With Obama as president, it would likely have been the other way around.
Los Alamos would have been shut down, and the first mushroom cloud would have risen over some German test site in the
Baltic sea. The genie is out of the bottle; good luck to anyone trying to stuff it back.
O's Foreign
Follies. The world has rabies and our swooning media deliver headlines about the new Obama family
dog. Yeah, the puppy's cute. But must journalists be lapdogs? The week kicked off with gushing
media declarations that President Obama had "passed his first test" in a foreign "crisis." Three pirates
held an American hostage far too long. It was an embarrassment, not a crisis. Our president was
reluctant to authorize deadly force. ... Then, on Wednesday [4/15/2009], Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
announced her solution to piracy: Send your tax dollars to Somalia in foreign aid. That's rewarding
criminality. It's tribute money. We're not asking for trouble. We're on our knees begging
for it.
Inexcusable Lapse. Imagine
a president of the United States, within his first hundred days, revealing secrets that help terrorists kill. The
secret memos on enhanced interrogation, now made public, do exactly that.
Consequences Of An "American Idol" Presidency.
The Obama Administration, in its current governing and diplomatic mode, is reverting to a mentality that is even more
myopic and dangerously shortsighted than that of the Clinton years. Obama's sycophancy towards European leftists
and Middle Eastern Muslims during his recent trip abroad cannot be construed as anything else. ... But to the practitioners
of a religion that only understands strength and force, this manner of pandering only represents weakness. As such it
is essentially entreating the world for a repeat of the attacks on America.
America the
Apologetic. When you braid Obama's apology tour with what some of us believe to be his weak
early stands on a series of other matters, the message Obama is sending is a potentially dangerous one:
we are willing to absorb, but not to respond to, blows directed against us. And that, in turn, can
set up a serious confrontation down the road.
Passive Opaqueness.
The president went to Langely for some damage repair today, telling the CIA employees he knows "the last few
days have been difficult." Here is a tip: when a speaker uses the passive voice he is hiding something.
If the president had been more candid, he would have said "I made your jobs more difficult in the last few
days."
Peace Through Weakness.
It really does sound fantastic and silly that anyone could really believe that the United States has brought terrorist wrath
upon itself by doing anything other than, perhaps, nobly allying with Israel. It's even more ludicrous to entertain seriously
the notion that if we'd just start being nicer, we could improve our international image and make ourselves safer, especially
when you consider that being nicer entails lowering our guard and playing into the enemy's hands on a number of fronts.
But this is precisely the kind of silliness that is driving Obama's foreign policy.
It's like making Jane Fonda senior adviser on Vietnam. A
disaster for Defense. President Obama is surrendering national security with a radical
appointment at the Defense Department. Rosa Brooks, this month made adviser to Undersecretary of
Defense for Policy Michelle Flournoy, will be in a position to do significant damage to U.S. security.
This position is unknown to most outside the Beltway but is at the critical locus of defense policymaking.
Soros Invades Pentagon. Democratic Party
financier George Soros, who puts much of the blame for Islamic terrorists on America and former president George W.
Bush, can celebrate his first foothold inside the Pentagon. It is in the person of Rosa Brooks, far-left former
Los Angeles Times columnist. She was once counsel to billionaire Soros' Open Societies Institute, whose funding
arm bankrolls a number of hard-left pressure groups, such as MoveOn.org.
Obama and the CIA: While he is
willing to release classified documents about interrogation techniques, Mr. Obama refuses to release documents that
more fully discuss their results. All of this might appease the President's MoveOn.org base, but he can't
expect to satisfy them without also weakening American intelligence capabilities.
Los Angeles or
Waterboarding? My guess is that President Obama realizes it was a big mistake for his administration
to release four memos written by Bush administration lawyers sanctioning enhanced interrogation techniques.
Already, rage on the left has prompted Obama to go squishy on his once-insistent opposition to prosecuting any Bush
administration officials. Now he says he might let his attorney general prosecute Bush lawyers. That
would be criminalizing the politics of 2002.
Between Barack and a
Hard Place. Mr. Obama's release of top-secret Bush administration documents on interrogation
techniques — and his botched determination on whether to hold show trials for those who authorized
such efforts to prevent further terror attacks — shocked allied intelligence services. His
performance at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad brought accolades from the mainstream media, but it
disheartened those in Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan and Bolivian prisons who have committed no crimes except
to speak out against their governments.
Obama's
peace tour has left US a more dangerous place. There is a certain type of political career
that has auto-destruction built into its DNA ... To this category belongs Barack Obama. ... There was,
however, one area where most commentators believed Obama would tread warily: it seemed implausible that
he would play politics with America's national security within his first 100 days in office.
100 Days of the
New Security Strategy. In a speech previewing the impending release of next year's defense budget, Secretary
of Defense Robert Gates announced deep cuts in procurement programs. In addition, the Administration is phasing-out
supplemental spending, shifting the costs of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into the "core" Pentagon budget. That
will leave even less money for buying new equipment. Gates justified the decision as eliminating "Cold War" weapons
systems, including the F-22 stealth fighter aircraft and next-generation Navy destroyer. All the programs named by
Gates came into development after the fall of the Soviet Union and were justified and funded by a succession of both
Democratic and Republican Congresses and Presidents.
Release of secret papers by Obama is a mistake.
Those who claim that harsh interrogation tactics are a break with American traditions, as President Obama has done, are
offering up a childish mirage. In the wars America won — in less than four years — our
intelligence agencies did what was necessary. By contrast, Obama and radical allies on his
left spent last week tantalizing our terrorist enemies and the public with the release of classified
interrogation documents and holding out the possibility of show trials of Bush administration officials.
A New Defense Posture: Bend
Over Backward. We have already turned loose dozens of captured terrorists who have resumed their
terrorism. Why? Because they have been given "rights" that exist neither in our laws nor under
international law. ... There was a time when people who violated the rules of war were not entitled to turn
around and claim the protection of those rules. German soldiers who put on U.S. military uniforms, in
order to infiltrate American lines during the Battle of the Bulge, were simply lined up against a wall and shot.
Obama's
defense cuts will hurt naval readiness. A straightforward comparison [to President Bush's
defense budget] reveals that Obama is proposing $30 billion in defense cuts during a time of war.
Through time, Obama appears to be orchestrating an eventual return to the days of Bill Clinton's "hollowed
out" military, when defense spending in the post-Cold War era declined from nearly 5 percent to 3 percent
of GDP. For now, the immediate effects of the cuts are still very serious.
Department of
Insecurity. Give Janet Napolitano her due. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland
Security has taken to heart Barack Obama's campaign pledges of "change" and "hope." Unfortunately, the
changes she has effected seem generally to be to dismantle sensible Bush-era internal security policies and
practices, replacing them with politically correct nostrums and generally inadequate programs. The
cumulative effect of such change can only be to give hope to our terrorist foes.
Nobody
wants a terrorist for a neighbor. President Barack Obama made a serious mistake when he decided
to close the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without first figuring out where to put the
240 detainees held there. Most of these people are hard-core jihadists whose main goal in life
is to kill Americans. Obama can call it an "overseas contingency operation," but for the Gitmo
detainees it is a declared war against us and terrorism is their weapon of choice.
Napolitano's
Politically Correct Border Security. Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano is determined to
beef up security along the rough and tumble Canadian border. That's right, Canada. ... The nation's top
security official is saying that plowing tax dollars into more security along the Canadian border has nothing
to do with current or imminent or potential threats to the American homeland, but to fairness. Fairness
out of concern for feelings.
Obama
in no hurry to end 'don't ask, don't tell'. President Obama's campaign vow to end the ban on
gays in the military — and the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that forces thousands of military
personnel to stay in the closet — appears to be driven now by a strategy of "don't rush."
Obama, Hubris and Cheney. I'm nothing
more than a beat-up old lawyer, but I've had some fancy security clearances in my day. And even I know that
if I tell someone why something is secret I reveal too much. And our dear President wants to share
responsibility for the decisions of what is classified and what isn't with Congress and the courts. Can
it get any worse? Yes, it can.
Obama
dangerously wrong about how we handle terrorists. I listened today to the "anointed one" pontificating
about how we have been seriously wrong in the way we have allegedly been treating suspected terrorists. As usual,
Obama's clever speech writers, along with the man's admitted ability to deliver a stirring oration, have seemingly
convinced his poorly informed, and/or mentally challenged, followers that the way we handled terrorists during the
last Bush administration was both legally and morally reprehensible: a situation the enlightened messiah will
rectify, while dangerously degrading our nation's security, which he is sworn to protect and preserve.
Obama and Pelosi's Dangerously Short Detention
Spans. The casual manner in which Barack Obama flip flops on national security matters should
have Americans calling for his impeachment for treason on the grounds of providing aid and comfort to our
enemies. Under pressure from the ACLU, Obama authorized the release of classified memos detailing
enhanced interrogation techniques used against high-value detainees, giving them a nice addition to their
play book and rendering these methods useless.
The Axis of Evil Tortures
Obama. President Obama responded with robust words: "North Korea is directly and recklessly
challenging the international community." ... What did Obama's words lead to? The Security Council issued a
non-binding statement of condemnation.
Total Tolerance. There is
nothing new in a president calling for "a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons," as Obama did in Cairo.
Ronald Reagan expressed such hopes. But isn't contending that "no single nation should pick and choose which nation
holds nuclear weapons" the opposite of zero nuclear tolerance? How is it a step toward a nuclear-free world when we
announce that the West should stop practicing what might be called "nuclear discrimination?" Tehran will interpret
Obama's words as carte blanche to pursue its goal of building a nuclear weapons arsenal.
The Watergate of Waterboarding.
Obama has released the so-called "torture memos" — including legal opinions of the Justice Department
which advised that under the law as it was written in 2002, waterboarding was legal. Because they are now
public, his decision to release has damaged our national security by hobbling the ability of interrogators to
get valuable information from prisoners. The release gave terrorists an enormous advantage because they
now know what our interrogators can and cannot do.
White
House F-22 cuts mean hollow Air Force. When it comes to air superiority, America may be stuck on
the tarmac. In April, the Pentagon decided to cap the number of F-22 Raptors, the world's most advanced
fighter plane, to 187. Yesterday [6/24/2009], the White House indicated it would veto the National Defense
Authorization bill if it contains money for the planes.
If you bypass the Senate, it's not a treaty. Obama
WH: we don't need no stinking Senate! Whoa... isn't this the president who gave George W. Bush
SUCH a hard time about Presidential Signing Statements, before he fell in love with them? Now, suddenly,
it's — hey, I'm Barack Obama, and I won; I don't have to follow the constitution! I don't even
need that Senate!
Obama Has Gotten It Wrong for Twenty-Five
Years. Those who suspect the president is engaged in a bit of dangerous self-delusion and denial about
certain unpleasant realities regarding the threats from rogue states won't be heartened to read that his current
non-proliferation fetish stems, at least according to the New York Times, from his college infatuation
with the nuclear freeze movement.
Barack
Obama holds a fire sale of America's nuclear defences in Moscow. No apologies for posting consecutively on
Barack Obama: the Looney Tunes President's sell-out of US and Western interests is proceeding at such a speed that
it is difficult to keep pace. Well said, Nile Gardiner, for asking if Barack Obama is the most naïve president
in American history. The answer is undoubtedly yes — unless he has a secret agenda to cut America down
to size.
Victory Is So Yesterday.
There is a reason that the word victory conjures up in Barack Obama's mind the 64-year-old image of Hirohito and
MacArthur: he has never acknowledged the much more recent American victory in Iraq. If he had not politicized
and downplayed the U.S. accomplishments there, he would have a sterling example of an American triumph in asymmetric
conditions. Instead, he inspires the headline (seen by friends and enemies alike) "Obama: 'Victory' Not
Necessarily Goal in Afghanistan." Isn't that grand?
The
Case for Reviving F-22 Fighter. As Congress begins to take up the Obama administration's defense
budget, one item not even under discussion needs to be considered. Events of the past 18 months have
made clear that it's time to rethink the fate of the F-22 Raptor. The presumptions that led the Senate to
cancel funding for this fighter have been turned upside down, as new threats have emerged and old ones have become
clearer.
Obama
Finally Finds Something We Can't Afford: Military Superiority. Imagine a fighter jet that would give
the United States complete air superiority in any conflict. An aircraft that's faster, has longer range, and is more
fuel-efficient at high speeds than any aircraft ever built. A plane virtually invisible to radar and deadly accurate,
almost guaranteeing that any selected target would be destroyed. An aircraft so advanced that the armed forces of
every country on earth are scared to death of it and know that they would be defenseless against it for years to
come. We have that plane. It's called the F-22 Raptor, and our President and Commander-in-Chief,
Barack Obama, hates it.
Obama victory: Senate votes to kill additional
F-22 funding. The Senate voted Tuesday to strip $1.75 billion in increased spending for the F-22 jet
fighter from the defense authorization bill after a protracted fight between the Obama administration, top Pentagon
officials and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on one side and a faction of military leaders and members of Congress
whose districts benefit from the aircraft's construction on the other.
Shooting Down The Raptor.
The TARP bailout may hit $24 trillion, but the Senate says the F-22 is too expensive to build and
maintain. So why are the Japanese so desperate to buy this "unnecessary" Cold War weapon?
Is Obama Pressing the 'Reset
Button' on Defense? Despite all his initial talk of bipartisanship and putting aside the stale arguments of
the past, President Obama is revealing himself with each passing day to be a traditional, doctrinaire liberal. And
although it has received little coverage, Obama's liberal instincts are influencing the direction of America's defense
posture.
U.S.
no longer at war with 'terrorism'. It's official. The United States is no longer engaged in a "war on
terrorism." Neither is it fighting "jihadists" nor locked in a "global war." President Obama's top homeland
security and counterterrorism official on Thursday [8/6/2009] declared as unacceptable the terms crafted by the
George W. Bush administration.
Obama replaces 'global war on terror' in
strategy shift: aide. President Barack Obama is replacing the "global war on terror" with a new US strategy
more narrowly focused on Al-Qaeda and relying more on a broader effort to engage the Muslim world, a top aide said
Thursday [8/6/2009].
White House: 'War
on terrorism' is over. It's official. The U.S. is no longer engaged in a "war on terrorism."
Neither is it fighting "jihadists" or in a "global war." President Obama's top homeland security and counterterrorism
official took all three terms off the table of acceptable words inside the White House during a speech Thursday
[8/6/2009]at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
Call
it what you will, America's struggle against terrorism must continue. Whether you call it the "war on
terror" or something like the "campaign to stop really evil things by really evil people," the only thing we care about
is that America and New York do not suffer a replay of 9/11. As described by his top counterterrorism adviser in a
major address delivered Thursday [8/6/2009], President Obama thinks the U.S. will be safer if we rid our vocabularies of
Bush administration terms like "global war" and "jihadists," while focusing on building opportunities for 14-year-old
Afghan goat herders.
Panetta Revealed.
[Scroll down] It should also go without saying that [Leon] Panetta's lack of experience in the intelligence
sector was deeply worrisome. The sad irony is that the Obama administration needs strong intelligence
agencies. Obama has cut defense spending and generally seems wary of the armed services. This leaves
a wide gap, so to speak, for heavy reliance on wide-reaching, covert intelligence agencies. Obama's
ill-chosen reliance on Leon Panetta speaks volumes about the slipshod way in which vital national-security
issues are handled in this administration.
Will the Pentagon Fight Global Warming?
President Obama's proposed budget aims to cut $11.5 billion from defense, including $1.62 billion from missile
defense spending. To translate esoteric dollar figures into something a bit more concrete, the Democrats'
defense plans would cut the number of ground-based midcourse defense interceptors from 44 to 30, at precisely
the time that North Korea is ramping up its missile program. Obama is also trying to shut down the production
line that builds the F-22 aircraft responsible for our aerial advantage over Russian and Chinese fighters.
And Obama has told the Pentagon to come up with an additional $60 billion in cuts next year, without regard
to the threats America faces.
King
on Holder: 'You wonder which side they're on'. A "furious" Rep. Peter King, the hawkish,
maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a "disgraceful" Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA
interrogators and chided his own party for what he described as a weak response to the move in an interview
just now with POLITICO. "... It's disgraceful. You wonder which side they're on," he said of
the attorney general's move, which he described as a "declaration of war against the CIA, and against common
sense."
Obama's War on our Spies. The
Democrats' war on our intelligence agencies has now become a two-front war with the Obama administration
attacking where Congressional Democrats couldn't. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced he will
appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA interrogators who used tough interrogation techniques to
see which of them will be prosecuted. Holder has drawn a line in the sand.
What the President's
Attack on the CIA Really Means. By authorizing Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special
prosecutor to determine whether a full criminal investigation of CIA employees and contractors is warranted
for the manner in which they interrogated captured terrorists, the President has thrown his power and support
behind those far-left ideologues — in Congress and elsewhere — who believe that the CIA
is a bigger threat to our country than al Qaeda.
The Justice Department's War On
Heroes. Appointing a prosecutor to harass CIA interrogators exposes this administration's
priorities: The global war on terror takes a back seat to terrorizing some of America's most
selfless warriors.
(Not)
providing for the national defense: Our leaders are cutting back on defense, even in the midst
of a war in Afghanistan and ongoing terrorist threats. That's a mistake, because protecting our nation
is one of the few jobs the Constitution specifically assigns to the federal government. Yet defense
spending is about the only thing on the cutting block.
Holder's
CIA move could imperil Obama agenda. [Attorney General Eric] Holder on Monday [8/24/2009] asked
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham, who has been investigating the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, to
look into whether the agency's methods for questioning detainees were illegal. Approved by Obama, the
new scope of the investigation threatens to enflame still-raw tensions on both sides of a long-unresolved
national security debate.
The Buck Stops Short of the Vineyard.
Among the most despicable aspects of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the conduct of CIA operatives
in applying enhanced interrogation techniques is the abject refusal of the president to take responsibility for
the decision.
The
president can fire the attorney general. Obama administration spokesmen are portraying the
president as unable to overrule Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to have a special prosecutor
determine whether to prosecute CIA interrogators who were cleared by Department of Justice career
attorneys back in 2004. "This was not something the White House allowed, this was something the AG
decided," a White House spokesman said. Utter nonsense. The attorney general serves at the
pleasure of the president...
Who's Running the
Show? Is Eric Holder running the administration, or is the president disingenuous
when he denies responsibility for reactivating the investigation of CIA detainee-interrogation
cases? ... Either Obama is lying about his objectives at Justice or his attorney general is
seriously off the reservation. At the next prime-time press conference, someone might
ask Obama who is running the show.
Chilling
the CIA. Almost eight years ago, jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers and the
Pentagon. Americans, in their rage and grief, demanded to know who had attacked them. And they
expected their government to do everything in its power to prevent another attack, which everyone thought
was imminent. In the months after Sept. 11, 2001, American interrogators had an urgent mission:
Extract information from terrorism suspects about future attacks as quickly and effectively as possible.
Eric Holder's
Hidden Agenda: Hue and cry followed Holder's decision this week to have a prosecutor investigate
CIA interrogators and contractors. The probe is a nakedly political, banana republic-style criminalizing
of policy differences and political rivalry. ... But the question remains, Why is Holder (or, rather, why are
Holder and the White House) instigating this controversy? I believe the explanation lies in the Obama
administration's fondness for transnationalism, a doctrine of post-sovereign globalism in which America is
seen as owing its principal allegiance to the international legal order rather than to our own Constitution
and national interests.
The Get-Cheney Squad. "Men sleep
peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George
Orwell's truth comes to mind as one reads that Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to go after the
"rough men" who, to keep us sleeping peacefully at night, went too far in frightening Khalid Sheik Muhammad,
the engineer of the September massacres. Yet, it seems now indisputable that those CIA interrogators,
with their rough methods, got vital intelligence that saved American lives, as Dick Cheney has consistently
contended.
Yet
Another Foreign-Policy Fumble. The Obama administration is getting ready to throw the proposed
Eastern European-based US missile-defense system under the bus. The move is a sop to the Russians (and
to lefties here at home) — but will render us increasingly vulnerable to the growing Iranian
nuclear/missile threat.
Labor Day, Obama
and Bush. Skimming through the text of President Obama's Labor Day speech yesterday in Cincinnatti,
a few days before the anniversary of 9/11 and with the president facing a decision about sending more troops
to Afghanistan, I was struck by Obama's failure to mention the war, or our servicemen and women. ... Obama
barely mentions the war, or the troops fighting it, at all these days.
How
Obama Cronyism Threatens Rail Security. [Scroll down] Biden, in turn, is tight with the Fraternal
Order of Police (FOP), the powerful union that represents the Amtrak Police Department. According to OSSSO
sources, the APD brass have been aggrieved over the non-unionized counterterrorism unit's existence from its
inception. A West Coast OSSSO team member told me that union leaders blocked police credentialing efforts
by his office for more than a year. An East Coast OSSSO team member told me that the FOP recently filed a
grievance against one of its counterterrorism officers for assisting a train conductor who asked for help in
ejecting a ticketless passenger.
Obama Frees Prisoner He Thinks Is a Terrorist.
People are again talking about fighting terrorism in the wake of Scotland freeing a man who murdered 180 Americans
on Pam Am 103 over Lockerbie and Eric Holder's criminal investigation of the CIA. In the midst
of that discussion, Barack Obama has let a terrorist detainee go free. Mohammed Jawad was released from
Gitmo when a federal judge granted his habeas petition. President Obama could have appealed this ruling,
but instead caved in, returning this terrorist to Afghanistan on August 24.
Once?! I found this bit of last night's
[9/27/2009] 60 Minutes profile of Gen. McChrystal to be — how do you say? — unbelievable:
"Q: How often do you talk to the president?
McChrystal: I've talked to the president once since I've been here, on a [video teleconference]."
A Clear and Present Danger.
Obama made his point clear in his speech to the General Assembly on September 24, saying, "I have outlined
a comprehensive agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons." He added that America has
already begun its own nuclear disarmament ... In other words, on a global platform, with the whole world
watching, Obama focuses not on the threat to world peace from the rogue powers Iran and North Korea acquiring
nuclear weapons, but on the nuclear disarmament of America and its allies!
Losing Faith in the Commander in
Chief. The latest Fox News/Opinion Dymanic poll is chock-full of bad news for the president.
But on foreign policy, the results are nothing short of stunning. On who they trust more to decide the next
steps in Afghanistan. 66 percent say military commanders, while only 20 percent say the
president. Even Democrats have more faith in the military commanders (by a 45 to 37 percent
margin).
White House
declares war on this honest hero. Another day, another double standard from the Obama White House.
This one involves the nasty effort to discredit and muzzle Gen. Stanley McChrystal, whose sin was to present his
commander in chief with an inconvenient answer about Afghanistan.
Philip Larkin
has a Lesson for Barack Obama. Here's the $12 trillion President fretting — that is,
pretending to fret — over $40 or $50 billion. That's school lunch money for the Democrats.
Of course, the issue isn't money. It's morality. That's to say, it's about what really matters to Obama.
He's willing to demand $800 billion now, today, to shore up his support among the auto unions and other Democratic
interest groups. But the war of terror? He can't even bring himself to pronounce the phrase.
Holder's Witch Hunt. Attorney General Eric
Holder's decision to prosecute CIA personnel is an outrageous act of political theater that has the potential to
significantly damage our nation's long-term intelligence gathering capabilities.
Why Obama Is
Wrong on Missile Defense. President Obama's recent decision to "overhaul" the Bush-era missile-defense
shield for Europe was the most significant, but hardly the only, indication that the Obama national-security vision is
skeptical of, and very likely actually hostile to, missile defense altogether.
Obama Is Average.
[Scroll down] Look at Obama's speech at the UN General Assembly: "No one nation can or should try
to dominate another nation." Take the first half of that sentence: No nation can dominate
another. There is no eight year old who would say that — it's so absurd. And the
second half? That is adolescent utopianism. Obama talks in platitudes, but offers a vision
to the world of America diminished or constrained, and willing to share leadership in a way that no other
presidency and no other great power would.
Armed Pilots and Dead Terrorists.
The FFDO (Federal Flight Deck Officer) program was implemented by the Bush Administration working with law
enforcement, airline management and pilot unions. Pilots with guns were a way to augment the Federal
Air Marshall Service which was already in place and quickly expanded. Recent rumors indicate that the
Obama administration will attempt to de-fund the FFDO program. I think it would be a huge loss to
security and a big mistake.
Obama's Man-Caused
Disaster Chickens Come Home to Roost. President Obama's new Homeland Security doctrine has
taken our country from being the world's strongest and most intimidating superpower to a weak and vulnerable
nation being singled out by every terrorist organization in the world. And make no mistake: Whether
homegrown or international, these terrorists want America destroyed at any cost. The Obama administration's
Homeland Security doctrine has become no more than a politically correct welcome mat for every Muslim
jihadist on the planet.
The Religious War Our Secular President Ignores.
Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been in a war it did not start against Islamic extremists bent on using
terrorism to destroy us and our way life. To these extremists, this war is an expression of Jihad and is therefore a
religious cause for which they are happy to die. Yet for our secular President, it's just an "overseas contingency
operation," disconnected from the religion-based motivations of the terrorists.
O's
China kowtow. If you were troubled by President Obama's "Wow Bow" in Japan, you won't be
any happier with the "kowtow" during his just-concluded trip to the People's Republic of China. In
the latest chapter of Team Obama's at-best-mediocre, teetering-on-the-disastrous foreign policy, the
president and a slew of Cabinet secretaries roared into Asia like lions, promising a new era in US
diplomacy in the region.
President
Superbower — "Speak Loudly, Carry a Small Twig". My radio pal Hugh Hewitt said to me on the air the
other day that Barack Obama "doesn't know how to be president". It was a low but effective crack and I didn't pay it
much heed. But, after musing on it over the last week or so, it seems to me frighteningly literally true.
Talked Into A Trap.
President Obama's "direct diplomacy with Iran without preconditions" has, not surprisingly, led us down a
blind alley. Now China and Russia are about to mug us with Turkey's phony uranium deal.
Corporal Klinger and
the Barney Frank Brigade. The MASH television spectacle of Corporal Klinger wearing women's
dresses to get out of the military may now give way to the Pentagon actually permitting transgendered male
soldiers to openly wear women's military uniforms. This is what repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," could
mean.
Obama's Arizona Stance Borders Treason.
Without a hint of hesitation after Arizona passed their new immigration law, President Obama immediately condemned
our 48th State by calling Arizona's new immigration law misdirected, troubling, and potentially discriminatory. ... So
the question that remains is; by standing idly by while all this is taking place, is President Obama, in essence,
encouraging harm against the very country that he swore an oath to protect?
Obama's Pro-Terror Policies and Arizona.
In case after case, we can see the Obama administration's pro-terror policies here and abroad — from forcing
U.S. soldiers to mirandize known enemy combatants on foreign fields of battle — to their insistence upon
national tolerance for a so-called "religion of peace," and their ongoing redefining of "terrorist" to include only
American citizens who still believe in their Constitution. But their most deadly pro-terror policy is their
assault on U.S. Immigration Laws and the people and states who want them enforced immediately.
What
Diplomacy? Saturday, President Obama announced to West Point cadets that the U.S. military
role was set to be diminished and "diplomacy and cooperation" would take its place instead. Then on
Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that the Obama administration's new National Security Strategy
would emphasize diplomacy over military action again, with the latter to be used only in concert
with U.S. allies and organizations.
Saving Soldiers from Gay Death.
There is a simple reason why the gay rights lobby is trying to rush through repeal of the Pentagon's homosexual
exclusion policy. They know that a comprehensive review of a proposed change would disclose the
substantial evidence that admission of open and active homosexuals would put our troops in further danger
through exposure to tainted blood. In fact, evidence to this effect is already in the hands of top
military commanders and Pentagon officers.
Five House Republicans Vote to Repeal 'Don't
Ask, Don't Tell'. This vote was not about gays openly serving in our military. It
never has been. The radical gay lobby seeks to force the military to allow their fellow travelers
to serve openly as a means to achieve other elements of their radical agenda in the civilian world.
Repeal of this policy causes myriad problems in fundamental areas such as housing, shower, personal hygiene
and bathroom space (men, women, gay men, gay women — or should we no longer have gender
identification on bathrooms and living quarters).
Obama:
June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. As he did last year, Obama today [5/28/2010]
declared June "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month." But this year the announcement
comes as Congress began moving to repeal the controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy used by the
US military when dealing LGBT service members.
Homosexuality would
decrease armed services' effectiveness. The Obama administration's move to allow homosexuals to
serve openly in the U.S. military — along with the House's confirming vote and the Senate's pending one
scheduled for this week — has completely ignored the known health and medical implications of homosexuality.
Medical readiness — the overall health of the military — is so fundamentally important
to military effectiveness that each branch of the military has well-established standards of medical fitness.
Numerous common medical and behavioral conditions exclude individuals from serving in the military. Even
a history of medical or behavioral conditions is enough to exclude someone from service. Why? Simply
stated, the risks to the individual and to the health of the entire force are too large and unacceptable.
The
President's Memorial Daze. Our commander in chief was to miss the wreath-laying ceremony
at Arlington National Cemetery to go on vacation. Other presidents have missed it, but never
at wartime.
President Obama
will skip Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery. President Obama is skipping the
traditional Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery, a move that has dismayed some veterans —
and comes at a sensitive moment in the administration's relationship with the military.
This
Is the Way Sovereignty Ends. The indomitable Sarah Carter (winner of the 2006 Katz Award
for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration) reports on plans for a satellite Mexican consular office
on Catalina Island to issue ID cards to illegal aliens. This kind of thing has been going on for
some time now, but this part got my attention: ["] Officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement said their agency was asked by Mexican officials not to enforce U.S. immigration laws on the
island while the cards were being issued.["]
Nuking Our Defense:
America Exposed. Barack Obama is poised to be the first president to leave America at the mercy of
its enemies. President Obama's recent decision to begin announcing once-secret U.S. missile tests and
satellite launches is just the first of many subversive acts carried out by the Obama administration against
America's defense. Obama also chose to unilaterally end a crucial strategic practice called "calculated
ambiguity" by publicizing the exact number of warheads in America's arsenal.
The
'wikileaker' and the White House. Yesterday brought the welcome news that a 22-year-old soldier
had been busted for passing classified gun-camera tapes and documents to Wikileaks. If proven guilty,
Spc. Bradley Manning needs to do serious prison time. But that's where the good news ends. ... Our
government still isn't serious about plugging classified leaks in wartime.
Obama's Post-American World. A
nuclear-ready Iran is preparing for world war. Here, there, everywhere. And we have ... impotent Obama.
When the U.N. elected the oppressive Islamic regime of Iran to its Commission on Women's Rights, the U.S. did
nothing and said nothing — and our silence was affirmation. Ignoring Iran's legal mistreatment
of women and terrible human rights record is now concurrent with U.S. policy? This is no accident.
Last year, Obama had the U.S. co-sponsor with Egypt a U.N. resolution calling upon member states to criminalize
"incitement to religious hatred," which is UN-speak for restricting free speech about Islamic terrorism.
So the U.S. went on record favoring measures that would violate the 1st Amendment.
Panel
commissioned by Barney Frank recommends nearly $1T in defense cuts. A panel commissioned
by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is recommending nearly $1 trillion in cuts to the Pentagon's budget
during the next 10 years. ... Measures presented by the task force include making significant reductions
to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, which has strong support from Defense Secretary Robert Gates; delaying
the procurement of a new midair refueling tanker the Air Force has identified as one of its top acquisition
priorities; and reducing the Navy's fleet to 230 ships instead of the 313 eyed by the service.
The 'Bring Back the Draft'
Act. As early as this week, the United States Senate may turn to the annual legislation known as "The
National Defense Authorization Act" (NDAA) that is supposed to provide the Pentagon what it needs to defend our
nation. Unfortunately, thanks to an amendment added in the Senate Armed Services Committee that would impose
the radical homosexual agenda on the U.S. military, a more appropriate title for this bill would be "The Bring
Back the Draft Act."
Fantasy As Strategy. As
required by law, President Barack Obama released his National Security Strategy (NSS) late last month.
Regrettably, the document doesn't address the nation's security challenges particularly well and doesn't
offer much of a strategy. Instead, it glosses over some of the most serious threats, fails to present a
real roadmap for navigating the world's many danger zones, and offers diplomatic bromides and observations of
the obvious.
Why
Is the State Department Covering for a Known Terror Group? Are U.S. security agencies
hampered by President Obama's mission to reach out to Muslims? Criticizing Israel for stopping a
Gaza-bound flotilla sponsored by the IHH and the Turkish government is easy. But when terrorists
affiliated with the IHH try to get into the United States, who will stop them if no one is looking
at the organization to which they belong?
How's
That 'Reset' with Russia Going? Disastrously, of Course. The results of Barack Obama's
"reset" of U.S. relations with Russia are now in. They are, like the rest of Obama's foreign policy
record, disappointing. Obama said that in exchange for a reset, Russia would support a new nuclear
arms reduction treaty. Russia did, but in name only: the actual reductions to U.S. and Russian
missile stockpiles were marginal and insignificant.
Missing
Defense. There seems to be only one thing White House arms negotiators want more than a reduction
in U.S. nuclear weapons — a reduction in U.S. missile defenses to protect us from such weapons.
Dropping
The Shield. The administration is ready to sign a treaty stripping us of our ability to defend
ourselves against enemy nuclear missiles, including Iran's and North Korea's. In space, no one can hear
you surrender.
(Even a Few)
Words Matter. Sometimes deterrence against aggression is lost with just a few unfortunate words
or a relatively minor gesture. Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a comprehensive address to the National
Press Club in early 1950. Either intentionally or by accident, he mentioned that South Korea was beyond
the American defense perimeter. Communist North Korea, and later China, agreed. War broke out
six months later.
Norm Augustine's Subversive Agenda.
To commemorate the first anniversary of Barack Obama's Cairo speech, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, interviewed
on al Jazeera TV, said that one of his foremost responsibilities was improving relations in the Muslim
world by highlighting their contributions to math, science and engineering, thereby making them feel better.
Notwithstanding that Muslims abroad learned of this outreach before the Americans who will fund it did, while
your first instinct may be to focus on the emotional aspects of using taxpayer-funded NASA to enhance public
relations with Muslims, a sizable majority of whom hate us, we must look at the totality of what Barack Obama is
doing to America's military and space programs and how those actions are intertwined, before the national
security implications become apparent.
Obama Plans to Cut
Up to 40 Percent of Nukes. A government document reveals that the Obama administration is
planning to cut the U.S. nuclear stockpile by up to 40 percent by 2021.
Unilateral Disarmament. While
Mr. Obama golfs his way through the Gulf Coast's oil-drenched environmental calamity, another crisis is
looming across the Potomac. America's military, in harm's way in a two-front war, is about to get
staggered by a double whammy below the belt. Unfortunately for those who wear our nation's uniform,
the Commander in Chief and his cronies in Congress are throwing the punches.
Ron Paul Helps
Obama Slash National Defense. In line with Obama chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel's admonition
that no crisis should go to waste, the Obama Administration is preparing to use the matter of massive
debt and deficits to push for drastic cuts in our national U.S. military budget. The proposed cuts,
which total $960 billion, could leave the U.S. as a second-rate military power. Playing a
critical role in the effort is Rep. Ron Paul, who is generally considered by his followers to be an
opponent of Obama's liberal agenda.
How the Obama Administration is Drafting the Military
into the Culture War. President Obama intends to repeal the military's homosexual ban.
His Secretary of Defense launched a review of the policy and promised by the end of 2010 to deliver a report
to Congress to inform their repeal consideration. If that review is objective it will validate the law,
but as with other political issues, the outcome may contradict the facts. That is why proponents for
preserving our military's effectiveness must insist the review is objective and Congress is properly informed
on the issue. Congress must exercise its constitutional duty to protect the military from the president's
radical plan.
Unkindest
Cuts. It was inevitable: The $13 trillion debt this Congress and White House
helped run up has imperiled defense spending in an age of continued terrorism.
Guantánamo Prison
Horrors. [Scroll down] Prisoners, as we all know from the thirteen gazillion MSM
articles, also exist in the U.S. enclave of the Guantánamo province. And as we learn from a Spanish
reporter named Marc Bassets who recently visited the U.S base, many of these prisoners were horribly anguished
of late. (No reporters, by the way, dare venture anywhere near Castro's prisons. Their employers'
Havana press bureaus would be "seriously jeopardized" by such insolence.) At any rate, the anguish
among the prisoners on the U.S. side stemmed from their concerns about securing good front-row seats at the
prison hall to watch the World Cup. The prison's wide-screen TVs capture over twenty channels, including
Al Jazeera, so some observers felt the anguish was a bit overblown.
The
President's False START. Think Moscow will violate the New START arms limitation treaty?
A just-issued report says it never obeyed the first one. The motto of the Obama administration is
blindly trust, don't verify and unilaterally disarm.
An
Open Letter To President Obama. In today's dangerous world, we need a president with experience,
leadership and courage. Unfortunately, you have shown us little of those traits.
Violating His Oath of
Office? [Scroll down] When the Iranian people rose up in protest against the stealing of
a sham election by the country's fascist dictatorship, President Obama sagaciously withheld even rhetorical
support, to curry favor with the ruling Islamic theocracy in the vain hope of a nuclear deal. As the
mullahs' Brown Shirt henchmen began murdering protesters in the streets, President Obama stood idly by,
offering nothing of significance in their support. Even Jimmy Carter supported human rights. That
is why President Obama's foreign policies are the worst, most unprincipled, most un-American in our nation's
history.
Administration
halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber. The Obama administration has shelved the planned
prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS
Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.
Cole
killer confusion. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is a man with blood on his hands. A year before
9/11, the Saudi al Qaeda operative masterminded the bombing of the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole, killing
17 sailors as the vessel refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. A Guantanamo tribunal was ready to
arraign him last year, but since the Obama administration took office, it's been a case of trial and error.
No trial — plenty of error.
Politicking
Justice. A decade after the USS Cole bombing, the Obama administration has halted prosecution of
the al-Qaida operative believed to have planned the attack. What an insult to the sailors who lost their
lives.
O's
terror outrage. Americans are learning there's one minority group President Obama is never
afraid to offend: families of victims of Islamist terror. ... Now, last Friday [8/27/2010], we learned
that "no charges are either pending or contemplated" against one of the deadliest and most dangerous
al Qaeda operatives, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, mastermind of the October 12, 2000, bombing of
USS Cole that killed 17 sailors and officers and wounded dozens more.
President Obama's
Compulsive Appeasement Disorder. Superpowers of yesteryear, going back to the Greeks and Romans,
were feared for a reason — they leveled a city to make an example. Today, by contrast, Uncle
Sam relies on cajoling, bribery (think North Korea), entreating puny leaders of inchoate states (special
envoys to the PLO's Mahmoud Abbas) and otherwise playing weak hands. We have gone from resolve to
U.N. resolution.
The Pentagon's Budget
Is Not Bloated. With America facing a $1.4-trillion deficit, ideological opponents of a
strong defense — liberals and libertarians alike — have called on the Congress to
severely reduce the defense budget. To try to justify their proposals, they make false claims about the
defense budget, including its size and how it compares to the other items in the federal budget.
However, none of these claims stand up to scrutiny.
Obama's Foreign Policy
Flies in the Face of Reason. A person does not need to be a military expert or have a Ph.D. in
foreign affairs in order to understand the disastrous implications of Obama's foreign policy for America's
national security. And while it was certainly clear that Americans were not electing a neo-con as their
Commander-in-Chief, I would venture a guess that those who voted for him believed that he would implement
policy that would protect the country. Or maybe not.
Time to START Standing Up for America.
Among the dangers lurking in Congress's fall session and Lame Duck Session will be Obama's demand that the Senate
rush to ratify the treaty called New START, which he signed with the Russians in Prague last April. This
treaty is not only a bad idea; it's downright dangerous to U.S. national security. For the first time in
the long record of U.S.-Russian treaties, New START links offensive and defensive weapons. Obama's
advocates of ratification say that doesn't matter because the link is only in the preamble and that doesn't
bind us.
The reluctant
commander in chief. What is most disturbing about the coverage of Bob Woodward's "Obama's Wars"
is not the juicy bits of conflict and infighting; it is the fact that the White House seems pleased with the
image of President Obama that emerges. ... What comes across is a president deeply skeptical about the Afghan
war, suspicious of the advice of military leaders and obsessed with finding exits and setting withdrawal deadlines.
FBI
Escorts Known Hamas Operative Through Top-Secret National Counterterrorism Center. A known Hamas
operative and unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history —
Kifah Mustapha — was recently escorted into the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center and
other secure government facilities, including the FBI's training center at Quantico, during a six-week
"Citizen's Academy" hosted by the FBI as part of its "outreach" to the Muslim Community.
What's next
at Gitmo, off-brand mints on the pillows? You can stop asking why the terrorists hate us.
The Daily Mail reports: ["]Detainees' diets at Guantanamo Bay have been a controversial issue for some time
and now the U.S. prison is said to be rationing ice cream.["]
A Crossroads Election.
History tells us where giving government one arbitrary power after another leads. It is like going into
a Venus fly-trap, which is easy to enter and nearly impossible to get out of. The headstrong, know-it-all
willfulness of this administration, which threatens our freedom at home, also threatens our survival in the
international jungle, because Obama seems determined to do nothing that will stop Iran from going nuclear.
Barack's Brokeback barracks.
President Obama and his friends in the media want the public to think Americans serving in uniform are just fine and
dandy with homosexual conduct in the military. This view is being spread through a series of selective leaks
from the Pentagon's Comprehensive Review Working Group, which is putting the finishing touches on a report regarding
the future of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
Will President
Obama bring back the draft? Barack Obama is opposed to the draft as a matter of principle,
to be sure. So are most politicians in both parties. But the president's drive to repeal the
ban on open homosexuality in the military could have this unintended consequence: It could bring
back the draft.
The Emperor's Nuclear
Clothes. Respectable wise men, in and out of government, talk of the importance of arms control and
a nuclear-free world, when the reality is that Iran, North Korea and other countries have made the acquisition of
nuclear weapons their highest priority. The government of Russia has committed itself to a military posture
in which tactical nuclear weapons play a larger role in war fighting and war termination.
President
Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia. The Obama administration has an
impeccable track record of caving in to Russian demands, as part of its controversial "reset" policy.
Last year, it threw key US allies Poland and the Czech Republic under the bus, ditching plans for Third Site
missile defences in deference to Russian opposition. It is now planning another surrender to Moscow, by
pressing for Senate ratification of the new START Treaty in the lame duck session of Congress.
Cost Cutters Fix
Sights on F-35 Fighter. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is considering pulling back the
Pentagon's commitment to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the costliest procurement project in the department's
history, defense officials said. At issue is how many of the supersonic, stealthy aircraft the U.S. is
willing to buy, how much it will to pay for them and how long it will wait for them to enter service.
The inevitability of the draft.
As the last nails are being hammered into the coffin of the lame duck 111th Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives and
the U.S. Senate have voted in favor of repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. ... Nearly forty percent of the Marines
in the official Department of Defense survey said that they may leave the service early if "don't ask, don't tell" is repealed.
Four out of ten! That is a staggering number that could degrade one of the most lethal fighting forces in the world.
Christian Rout in the Culture War. A Democratic
Congress, discharged by the voters on Nov. 2, has as one of its last official acts, imposed its San Francisco values
on the armed forces of the United States. "Don't ask, don't tell" is to be repealed. Open homosexuals are to be
welcomed with open arms in all branches of the armed services. Let us hope this works out better for the Marine Corps
than it did for the Catholic Church.
Slow START. In their frenzied
attempt to push New START across the Senate finish line before Christmas, Democrats are relying on a strange mix of calm
reassurances and ominous warnings. To hear them tell it, the arms-control treaty would not in any way jeopardize U.S.
missile-defense programs — but failing to approve it in 2010 would do major damage to bilateral relations with Moscow.
Moreover, Democrats argue, the urgency of inspecting Russian nuclear sites demands immediate ratification. None of
these claims is persuasive.
In victory
for Obama, Senate advances arms treaty. In a crucial victory for President Obama's efforts to establish a new
nuclear arms treaty with Russia, the Senate on Tuesday voted 67-28 to end debate on the START treaty over a vocal but
shrinking chorus of GOP objectors. The treaty now advances toward almost certain Senate ratification Wednesday [12/22/2010],
marking the third time in about a week that Obama won congressional support for a major agenda item in what many expected
to be a fruitless lame-duck session for the Democrats.
Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell — The Doctrine of
Fools. With eight GOP Senators joining the vote to repeal DADT, including much heralded Scott Brown (R) of
Massachusetts now gays can prance in array around the military just like they now do in the classrooms, the media and
everywhere else they aspire to. Is it a good day for America?
The Art of War and DADT.
Hollywood is allowed to discriminate based on anything. "Sorry, but you're too black." "You're good, but
you're too fat." "I like you, but you aren't pretty enough." Hollywood can pick whomever they want, for
whatever reason and with no repercussions. Discrimination for the sake of art. But the military, the people
who protect the nation, can't choose whom they want now that gays got their win with the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
The Cost of DADT Repeal.
Fresh off their election defeat for foisting a health care bill they didn't read onto voters who didn't want it,
congressional Democrats are pushing repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) on services that don't want it.
This is a shortsighted attempt by liberals to bolster their base by delivering on a campaign promise based on the
self-interest of a few while disregarding its impact on the whole of the military.
Downgrading Defense
Capabilities. Our foreign policy establishment believes that America's allotment of conventional
weapons is useless. The DOD's current leaders (Robert Gates, William Lynn, et al.) would love to
significantly reduce our numbers in this respect, and they've already made extensive "progress." The
first President Bush cancelled over a hundred weapon programs and reduced many others, including the order
for B-2 bombers.
The Bum's Russia.
The U.S. may have ended Russia's superpower status, but in speeding through the New START treaty we are
letting its gangster successors threaten our own superpower status.
Obama Dims the Light on
Missile Defense. Obama, for the record, insists that missile defense has not been compromised,
but the language of the treaty — combined with Obama's softness on the Russians, the Russians'
toughness toward Obama, Obama's previous pro-Russia moves at the expense of Poles and Czechs, and Obama's
traditionally tepid support of missile defense — is not reassuring. I'm pessimistic, and I'm
far from alone.
Don't
let O disarm our military. Call it President Obama's "conditional-surrender Pentagon budget" —
and bad news for the US economy. The 2012 Defense budget that Secretary Robert Gates unveiled last week
calls for cuts of more than $178 billion — more than a quarter of today's Pentagon spending.
Some $100 million [sic] in cuts are coming now, including $35 billion from the Navy alone, with the other
$78 billion slated for the next five years.
Why Did We Repeal Don't
Ask, Don't Tell? I don't have many Facebook friends but the ones I do have are professionals and just
plain smart so I asked all of them a question that had been puzzling me about Congress' rush to repeal the Don't
ask, Don't Tell military policy on sexual identity — DADT. I wrote: "Can someone explain DADT?
Before it was enacted no gays could serve openly in the military. If DADT is repealed, doesn't it go back to
that? ... There can be no other answer than to presume that repeal of DADT is a prelude to allowing gays to marry how
could we allow them to die for their country yet still be prevented from marrying?
Guess
What's Next? Activists Now Want Openly Transgender Soldiers... It didn't end with securing
the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Activists have their next social experiment for our US military already
in sight: allowing openly "transgender" troops in the US armed forces.
The
Anti-American START. Russia, throughout its history, has been an authoritarian if not a totalitarian
state hell bent on expanding its empire. During much of 20th century, Russia sought explicitly to destroy
the United States and enslave its allies. Despite some liberalization following the collapse of the Berlin
wall, the authoritarian nature of Russian society can still be seen today. The state is assassinating
journalists, bullying neighboring nations, jailing businessmen, and so on. ... Why then are some Americans,
Democrats and Republicans included, advocating weakening the military might of the United States for Russia?
Give
Defense What It Needs and Cut What It Doesn't. Rising budget deficits make it imperative to
cut federal spending, but why is the Defense Department, of all government departments, at the head of the
line? Given that we are still engaged in, depending on how you count, three major wars (Iraq,
Afghanistan, War on Terror), this hardly seems like the time to be cutting back on our overstretched
armed forces. Yet that is precisely what's happening.
Rep. Allen
West slams military diversity report. The Military Leadership Diversity Commission's (MLDC)
conclusion this week that there are too many white men in senior positions in the military "is a slap in
the face" to those minorities who have achieved seniority, according to retired Lt. Colonel and Florida
Republican Rep. Allen West.
Military
'diversity': more DC silliness. The [Military Leadership Diversity Commission] last
week issued its completely unawaited report to call for, you guessed it, more diversity among
military leadership. Not great fighting effectiveness, which should always be job No. 1. Not
smarter leadership. Not braver fighting generals and fewer rear-echelon paper-pushers. No, what this
country really needs from the Pentagon is better diversity management, including a chief diversity officer
reporting directly to the defense secretary.
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for
Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist. Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted
terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA
security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing
criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
Hero
SEALS face rap for fiend's bloody lip. Three Navy SEALs involved in nabbing one of Iraq's most
wanted terrorists are reportedly facing criminal charges related to his capture — all because
he claimed he had a bloody lip.
Navy SEALs May Go to Prison for Giving a Fat
Lip to Islamic Terrorist. The three SEALs have turned down the opportunity for a captain's
mast (also known as an admiral's mast, or flag mast), which is not a trial, but a non-judicial discipline
hearing. Perhaps they are curious about the Pentagon's pusillanimous pandering to political correctness.
Or perhaps they would like to see real proof of their CIC's citizenship. Whatever their reasons, I salute
their bravery, and service to our country — as I'm sure all patriotic Americans do as well.
Clubbing
SEALs. Punch a terrorist — head for the brig. Welcome to America's thoroughly
modern military. The notion beggars the imagination, but three Navy SEALs who helped capture one of
the most notorious terrorists in Iraq now face courts-martial — because the terrorist acquired a
bloody lip after the takedown.
The Editor says...
If you tangle with the SEALs, you are indeed fortunate to come away with only a knuckle sandwich.
Prosecuting American 'War
Crimes'. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed "great regret" in August that the U.S. is not a
signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration
may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague.
Justice for Accused Navy
SEALs? A report that three Navy SEALs will face court martial charges for allegedly abusing a
long-sought Iraqi terror suspect during or after his capture has produced quite a bit of outrage and controversy.
While it is too early in the process to make a judgment as to the commandos' guilt or innocence, there is
good reason to suspect the military has overreacted in pressing criminal charges.
Eventually there was a favorable outcome: Report
details depravity of SEALs' accuser. The just-concluded military trials of three exonerated Navy
SEALs showed the terrorism suspect at the center of the case to be one of the most dangerous men in Iraq.
Navy
Seals were heroes ... even before they were proven innocent. "Where do I go to get my reputation
back?" former Labor Secretary Ray Donovan famously asked after being acquitted of fraud and larceny in 1987.
That same question, in spades, could be asked by Matthew McCabe and his fellow Navy Seals who were charged with
crimes related to the apprehension and detention of a terrorist who said he was "roughed up" by his guards.
Obama
is leading us into Marxism. Obama and progressive Democrats nationwide are proudly displaying
their true colors. Obsessed with national and many statewide wins in last year's election these Democrats
have been emboldened to push their rabidly Marxist agenda. ... This week Obama offers to share our military
secrets with Russia and China, following the cave-in to Russia regarding the missile defense shield for our
Eastern European allies.
Take Our Playbook, Please.
The time for words has passed. President Obama and Eric Holder are placing American lives in danger and openly
aiding and abetting America's enemies. Obama and Holder want to give civilian trials to confessed 9/11
mass-murderer Kalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and his accomplices. Giving civilian trials to non-U.S. citizens
and unlawful combatants not even protected by the Geneva Conventions is both unconstitutional and a violation of
the oath of office to defend Americans against all enemies foreign and domestic.
We
Interrupt this Socialization of Medicine to Bring You an Abdication of Our National Defense.
Quite intentionally, the Obama administration is making so many radical moves on so many different fronts
simultaneously that it's difficult to stay on top of them all, much less give them the attention they
deserve. But ... it's important to notice how dangerously irresponsible the administration's obsession
to close Gitmo has become, and how tawdry the Justice Department is allowing itself to appear.
The Terror This
Time. A U.S. government that has barred the phrase "war on terror" has nonetheless acknowledged
that a failed Christmas day bomb attack on an airliner was a terrorist attempt. Can we all now drop the
pretense that we stopped fighting a war once Dick Cheney and George W. Bush left the White House?
The Real War
Front is At Home. [Scroll down] Now we have turned leadership over to those for whom the
issue is not inadequate attention to our moral pillars, but to those for whom they don't exist. After
9/11, we still knew what a terrorist was and we understood that we blew it regarding identifying the ones
operating in our own country. Today, after allowing a terrorist to operate within the ranks of our own
military, and, after he did his devastating work at Fort Hood, we refuse to identify him as a terrorist.
Obama's Second Major
Terror Failure in Two Months. After a known Islamic radical psychiatrist shot more than forty
unarmed American military personnel at Forth Hood last month, this is the second easily preventable failure
of the Obama administration to protect the country against domestic terrorism. Obama has let down our
guard, and al-Qaida's got his number.
Barack
Obama gets an 'F' for protecting Americans. Yes, the buck stops in the Oval Office. Obama
may have rather smugly given himself a "B+" for his 2009 performance but he gets an F for the events that led
to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarding a Detroit-bound plane in Amsterdam with a PETN bomb sewn into his underpants.
He said today that a "systemic failure has occurred". Well, he's in charge of that system.
Does Obama
'Get' the Terror War? Why is the government decanting Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab into the civilian
justice system after he tried to destroy an airliner filled with innocent passengers? Why are we affording
this enemy agent the legal protections that obtain in a land he wants to destroy? The administration is
going to answer for this one, with volume turned up.
For
Obama, Global Warming Trumps National Security. On Christmas Day, a Nigerian-born terrorist
named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound passenger airplane. ... [President Obama]
blamed the CIA for the foul-up. There is no doubt that the CIA should have done something more to prevent
this attack. But, then again, President Obama has been keeping them busy. With global warming.
Spying On Icebergs?
We can't stop terrorists from boarding planes with explosive undies, but the CIA has assets sufficient to
monitor Arctic ice and look for signs of global warming? Is al-Qaida recruiting polar bears? ... At the
urging of Al Gore, the administration is signing on to a plan to task vital intelligence assets to
protect not the people of the United States, but the environment.
Who Is the Enemy:
Islamists or the Global-Warming Scare? Though the failed airliner attack over Detroit
may have concentrated the administration's collective mind on the task of fighting Islamist terrorists,
even if we aren't allowed to call them that, our overburdened and often confused intelligence services
are also being asked to track another deadly enemy: global warming.
Tehran
is about to blow! Where's Obama? President Obama's end-of-the-year deadline for the
mad mullahs to make a deal on uranium enrichment came and went, but not without incident. There were
three, none good. Most troubling, the White House proved it still doesn't have a Plan B, even
though its unBush diplomacy has proven to be a total dud.
Okay, The Buck Stops Here — Now
Shut Up About It. What the president meant was: Okay, I get it. People want
me to make believe I take this terrorism thing seriously. If I say the right words, everyone will
just shut up about it and let me go back to wrecking the economy.
Obama Aids the Enemy
He Will Not Name. On December 29, and very much under the radar, (he was sunnin' and funnin' in
Hawaii at the time), Obama declassified just about everything he possibly could. All of it will help
foreign governments and Obama's Communist-Socialist associates in the U.S. This executive order is a
tsunami info-dump of newly declassified data — material that was classified before June 29,
1985. It is all about to be made public — despite the danger this poses to U.S. national
security — 180 days from the signing of the Executive Order.
Time
For A Change? Obama's Mistakes Say So. [Scroll down slowly] We have saved lives by
questioning other enemy combatants, but the Obama administration doesn't even know this is a war against Islamic
terrorism and is treating the terrorist as a common criminal, thus sacrificing our ability to get needed
intelligence information from him. This demonstrates Mr. Obama isn't keeping us safe, but is, instead,
subjecting us to unnecessary dangers.
Obama's Terror Non-Policy:
Nidal Hasan did everything but walk around Fort Hood with "kill infidels" tattooed on his forehead. He continually
expressed support for the jihadis, disparaged U.S. anti-terror efforts, and attempted to proselytize his patients.
He was in contact with the al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been chased from the U.S. to Yemen. Yet he
was not questioned, discharged from the service, or even put under observation.
A
sheik-up call for O's Justice joker. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano must be relieved.
Over the last few weeks, Attorney General Eric Holder has passed and lapped her in the race to be the most flagrantly
incompetent Obama administration official in the War on Terror.
Obama
waging unhelpful war against contractors. Waging war requires serious acts as well as sober
words. And in that arena, the Obama administration has yet to prove itself. Indeed, at times it
seems the White House is intent on fighting another war — one in which the perceived enemy is
America's defense industries.
The Most Important
Story You Didn't See Last Week: A Senate hearing last week confirmed the public's worst concern
about Barack Obama: that when it comes to national security, Obama hasn't just been asleep at the
switch — he hasn't even bothered to find the switch.
President
proposes cutting border patrol. President Barack Obama's proposed 2011 budget would cut the
border patrol by 180 agents and trim spending on a "virtual fence" along the nation's Southwest border.
Three pillars of Obamaism: Barack
Obama signed three executive orders on January 22, 2009. One provided for closure of Guantanamo and the
review of the cases of the detainees held there. One provided for the termination of the CIA program of
enhanced interrogation. One provided for the review of detention policy options. Following on these
orders Eric Holder promulgated the insane protocol establishing a presumption in favor or the trial of Guantanamo
detainees in federal court.
Politicizing Intelligence.
Last week, a little more than 24 hours after the FBI warned senators not to disclose the sensitive information
that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was cooperating with the FBI, the White House shared the information with the news
media.
F-22 Or F-35: The Plane
Truth. The administration decision to scrap a proven aircraft in favor of a supposedly cheaper,
more flexible replacement is proving to be an expensive mistake. We may wind up defenseless and broke.
Loose Lips. The
administration says the Christmas bomber is now cooperating with authorities. We thought they got all the
information he had in a 50-minute chat. So just why are we letting our enemies know he's talking? In
any war, it's vitally important that you know what your enemy is planning and doing, just as it's important that
your actions and plans remain secret. And when you know about your enemy's plans it's important they don't
know that you know.
Obama's Border Enforcement Deceit.
In his State of the Union speech two weeks ago, President Obama claimed that he would strengthen border
security. Oh really? I might not be as wise as Mr. Obama, but I'm not sure how removing
$319 million in border security funding increases our nation's security.
Where the
U.S. went wrong on the Christmas Day bomber. Contrary to what some in government have suggested,
that Abdulmutallab was taken into custody by the FBI did not mean, legally or as a matter of policy, that he
had to be treated as a criminal defendant at any point. Consider: In 1942, German saboteurs landed
on Long Island and in Florida. That they were eventually captured by the FBI did not stop President
Franklin Roosevelt from directing that they be treated as unlawful enemy combatants. They were ultimately
tried before a military commission in Washington and executed. Their status had nothing to do with who
held them, and their treatment was upheld in all respects by the Supreme Court.
Obama's Border Insecurity Budget.
In short, the Obama budget falls woefully short on immigration control and enforcement. If adopted, this
budget would set the nation back on border security.
Obama's Politically Correct Pentagon:
Gender integration is a deeply rooted PC issue which seldom draws attention from top brass in spite of contradictory
facts. For decades the military's PC culture accepted without complaint the readiness-busting problems
associated with gender integration: lowering of standards, sexual activity, sexual tension and declining
morale. The consequences are accepted and the military muddles along.
Sheer
Hypocrisy in Terrorist Handling. Maybe we are lucky we haven't caught Osama bin Laden yet. What
exactly would the Obama administration do with him if they did?
Air Force Retracted Invitation for Conservative
Leader to Speak at Prayer Luncheon. The U.S. Air Force admits that the chaplain's office at
Andrews Air Force Base retracted an invitation to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins — a
former Marine officer — to speak at a prayer luncheon held at the base on Thursday after the conservative
leader criticized President Obama's efforts to end "Don't Ask Don't Tell" — the military policy
on homosexuality.
Putting the Coast Guard Out to Sea.
Despite the pressing need to cut government spending, under President Obama's spending proposal all the nation's
military services are set to see their budgets increase — all, that is, except the Coast Guard, the nation's
chronically overburdened maritime force, responsible for everything from global search and rescue to port security.
Disinvited.
When the Air Force chaplain's office rescinded its invitation to Tony Perkins to keynote a military families'
prayer luncheon, it should have been over something truly dreadful. Disinvitation is serious business;
usually, once an offer has been made and accepted, hospitality is supposed to kick in. So what did
Perkins, a former Marine and president of the Family Research Council, do to offend the Air Force chaplaincy?
The
DOJ9 (And Still Counting). With health care dominating the headlines, it was easy to miss
the unfolding drama between Congress and the Obama administration about the legal war on terror.
The most recent installment was a remarkable and belated five-page letter from Attorney General Eric
Holder to Rep. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, acknowledging that at least nine attorneys in the U.S. Department
of Justice represented terrorist detainees before joining the Obama administration. Why is this a
problem? Let me count the ways.
Justice Department Won't Name Its Attorneys.
After a conservative group posted a video on Tuesday [3/2/2010] calling for the Department of Justice to release
the names of department lawyers who previously worked in the private sector representing or advocating on behalf
of terrorist detainees, a DOJ spokesman responded with a statement that still does not name the attorneys.
Exclusive:
Unknown DOJ Lawyers Identified. A day after a conservative group released a video condemning the
Justice Department for refusing to identify seven lawyers who previously represented or advocated for terror
suspects, Fox News has uncovered the identities of the seven lawyers.
Justice Department on So-called "Al Qaeda Seven": For several
weeks, Republican lawmakers and a conservative group have been attacking the Justice Department for refusing to
reveal the names of nine officials who have in some way advocated for or represented detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Killing
Airborne Laser jeopardizes America. [Scroll down] The successful airborne laser test
was as welcome and encouraging to most Americans as the ugly face of Iran's dictatorship was unwelcome
and menacing. Unfortunately, the Pentagon budget is sorely out of sync with these realities.
Congress and the Obama administration are actually defunding the very same Airborne Laser project that
has just succeeded in doing something once relegated to science fiction movies. Why is Congress
mothballing this program when it is on the threshold of success against such potent threats?
This
War Would Be Hell, Too. If a top intelligence expert said America was not prepared for
war and, indeed, that if we went to war "we would lose," that would worry you, wouldn't it? Start
worrying. ... Cybercombatants couldcause massive blackouts lasting for months. They could destroy
the electronic processes on which our banking, commerce, and financial systems have been built,
stealing — or simply wiping out — vast amounts of wealth. They could
put our air-transportation system in jeopardy. They might even be able to cripple our defense and
national-security infrastructures. It is possible to defend against such threats. But
we are not doing it adequately.
Save the SEALs.
Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana Republican, and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, yesterday renewed
a call for charges to be dropped against three Navy SEALs charged with the unspeakable crime of
roughing up a terrorist.
Gates' Bad Bet on F-35: When
Defense Secretary Robert Gates rankled the Air Force's fighter fraternity by terminating the top-line F-22 Raptor,
he tried to sooth the hurt by promoting the slower, less-capable F-35 as a good fill-in. ... Development of the
Joint Strike Fighter, as it is also known, has fallen so far behind schedule, with huge cost overruns, the
defense secretary ordered the firing of the F-35 program manager.
De-Fence, De-Fence.
The government puts the brakes on a problem-plagued "virtual" fence on our border with Mexico. Whatever
happened to the old-fashioned kind? If ever there was a shovel-ready project, this is it.
Obama's
Scheme to Gut the Coast Guard. The U.S. Coast Guard should play an important role in our
homeland security. After all, that was the stated reason for moving the Coast Guard out of the U.S.
Transportation Department and into the newly created Department of Homeland Security. Liberals are
forever going on about "first responders." Well, the Coast Guard should certainly be considered first
among the first responders.
Obama's Empty Nuclear Posturing.
Obama's threats to hit Iran with tough sanctions if his entreaties to talk were rejected are increasingly
being exposed as hollow. That kind of wishy-washiness is something that Iran and other rogue regimes
understand. By comparison, the theoretical language contained in the Nuclear Posture Review seems
more like, well, academic posturing.
The Obama Nuclear
Manifesto: Death of Clarity. Let's be clear: Wars prevented are wars not fought.
And when faced with hostile adversaries, the best prevention is peace through strength. There is little
room for banking on tulips and tea. In a real world proven model of peace through strength, there is
certainly no room for taking the defensive nuclear option off the table.
Obama Raises White Flag Over America.
Can there be any surprise that Obama's announcement for no nukes on American soil — even in
self-defense — coincides with the announcement that the leaders of 23 Arab countries have launched
an unprecedented clarion call to free the world from nuclear weapons?
The Disarming of America.
On the presidential campaign trail, Barack Obama was often critical of the Bush doctrine of preemptive war.
But apparently preemptive disarmament is just fine in the president's dossier. How else to describe the
administration's infinitely naïve decision yesterday [4/6/2010] to, in effect, fold up the American
nuclear umbrella?
Obama
looks to legacy with nuclear disarmament moves. With an eye toward his legacy, President Obama is
pushing a significant shift in U.S. nuclear policy. The administration's new, Nuclear Posture Review builds
specifics onto a speech the president delivered a year ago in Prague, Czech Republic, where he outlined his
vision for a future without nuclear weapons.
Obama's
Scary Nuke Plan. Today [4/6/2010] President Obama reversed 60 years of U.S. nuclear policy
and pledged we would not retaliate with nuclear weapons were we — or our treaty allies —
attacked with conventional, biological or chemical weapons by nations in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty. He hopes that other nuclear weapons states will follow suit with a similar pledge and we will
be well on our way to a world without nuclear weapons.
Disarmament Danger:
The Obama administration has placed nuclear disarmament at the top of its foreign-policy agenda. Other
possible goals, such as modernizing U.S. nuclear forces for deterrence purposes, are now considered either
transitory or subordinate to taking steps toward "nuclear zero."
Obamalateral Disarmament.
Aiming at a world where nuclear weapons are obsolete, the administration's nuclear posture review leaves a
world without American nuclear weapons and the backbone to use them.
Obama bans terms Jihad, Islam.
President Barack Obama's advisers will remove religious terms such as "Islamic extremism" from the central
document outlining the US national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the
United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.
Welcome Back, MAD.
The New START treaty signed today does what critics have feared: it gives Russia an out should it conclude
that any evolving situation is destabilized by America's missile defenses, and it prohibits the U.S. from
expanding our missile-defense capability by converting decommissioned ICBM silos in North America. The
language in the ninth paragraph of the treaty preamble gives the Russians whatever latitude they choose to
object to U.S. missile defenses.
Obama's Axis of "Outliers".
"Outliers" is Obama's newest foreign policy euphemism (enemies who don't comply with the Non-Proliferation Treaty,
the "NPT"). Now that "outliers" Iran and North Korea are no longer in the "Axis of Evil" we certainly
wouldn't think of imposing "crippling" sanctions on them.
Nuclear
TMI. For decades, America's nuclear strategy has been purposefully vague. The U.S. didn't
want the Soviet Union or other enemies to know exactly when, where or how it would strike, if provoked.
That's called deterrence, and it has worked for 60 years. On Tuesday [4/6/2010], President Barack Obama
dismantled some of America's nuclear mystique.
Obama's Nuclear Foreign Fallacy. No
longer will America "walk softly and carry a big stick." For the last 60 years, countries have been
scared to attack the U.S. and our allies because they knew we could respond with utter annihilation. Obama
has shelved our biggest stick.
The Systematic
Dismantling of a Secure America. The emotionally charged toppling of Saddam Hussein's
statue in Baghdad's Firdos Square on April 9, 2003 was an ephemeral moment of unity for Americans
applauding the defeat of a tyrannical regime and an enemy of the free world. ... Fast-forward to April 6,
2010, when Barack Obama informed the world that the United States would no longer function as a global
superpower buttressed by nuclear weapons as a deterrence to war.
Jon Voight: A Letter to the
American People. This will be the first president to ever weaken the United States of America.
President Obama uses his aggression and arrogance for his own agenda against the will of the American people,
when he should be using his will and aggression against our enemies.
The weakening of America from within.
On 10 April 2010, actor Jon Voight made an appearance on the Fox News Network where he read a message to the
American people. His message was direct and succinct, and he stated that in his first year in office, Obama
has significantly weakened America. Mr. Voight correctly states that via Obama's training and implementation
of the Alinski method, "a socialistic, Marxist teaching... he rapes this nation, taking down our defenses,
making new language for the Islamic extremists."
US Navy to launch Great Green Fleet.
The US navy is set to be both green and mean with the dawning of an new eco-friendly assault force that will
mind its carbon footprint as it destroys its enemy. It is to launch "the Great Green Fleet", a fighting
force of ships, submarines and planes powered entirely by biofuels.
Plans to
allow women and gays, ban smoking shake world of Navy submarines. Imagine 150 fraternity
brothers packed into a container the size of a three-bedroom house. Announce you are breaking hallowed
traditions by taking away their cigarettes and admitting women. Then lock the doors and push the
container deep into the sea, for months at a time. That's what the Navy, after decades of contemplation
and controversy, has decided to do with its Submarine Force, an elite fraternity of 13,000 active-duty sailors
that has been patrolling the oceans for 110 years.
Our Country's Battles.
We have today an aging and shrinking Air Force and Navy, an Army that is overstretched, reserve forces that are far too
"active" in their rate of deployment, and too few dollars to rebuild and modernize. And if the Obama domestic
agenda is implemented...
Weakening America starts with emasculating intelligence
agencies. Fifteen months into his presidency, it's no longer possible to assume
President Obama is simply naive. His defense and foreign policy decisions and policies
define an overarching objective: To reduce America from unchallenged superpower to a shell of
its former self, to a nation incapable of defending its interests or its allies around the world. To
understand why this is so, let's start with the component that is the foundation of all others in defense and
foreign policy, intelligence.
Bam's daze of the
weak. President Obama is the backward man. Teddy Roosevelt's advice to "speak softly and carry a
big stick" was meant as a guide to successful foreign relations. Obama has completely muddled the message.
He speaks softly to foreign adversaries and uses the big stick on American dissenters. Iran and Syria are
wooed endlessly with carrots, apologies and promises of grand bargains. They respond with taunts and
threats and pay no penalty.
Disarmament The Obama
Way: The F-15 Eagle that lay smoldering in the Libyan desert was downed not by hostile
fire but by "mechanical failure." It's a perfect metaphor for the current administration's downgrading
of national defense from a constitutional imperative to an optional budget item. The F-22 Raptor
was designed to replace our aging F-15 fleet, which is older than the pilots who fly them and whose wings
are almost literally falling off. Raptor production was cut off at 187, not nearly enough to meet
global commitments that now include three Mideast wars, including one that President Obama escalated in
Afghanistan and another he started in Libya while on tour in South America.
Military
indoctrinated on gays kissing, behavior. Four branches of the military have begun sending
training material to 2.2 million active and reserve troops as a prelude to opening the ranks to gays,
with instructions on, for example, what to do if an officer sees two male Marines kissing in a shopping
mall. Key themes are that sexual orientation will no longer be a bar to service, that all service
members must respect each other, and that the partners of gay troops will not receive the benefits of
heterosexual spouses.
The Pentagon prepares to welcome recruits to the New Gay Army. Obama's new
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy: Soldiers offended by the sight of two male Marines kissing in
public better not mention that fact to their superiors. Under President Obama, the new "Don't Ask,
Don't Tell" rules turn the Clinton-era policy on its head. Now those who embrace traditional moral
values are the ones being told to stay in the closet.
Obama's defense
defunding. Can America's defense budget be cut? Yes. Unfortunately, President Obama
is going about it exactly backward.
A National
Security Apparatus in Decline. Winning is no longer part of a general's code or vocabulary.
Words like "war" no longer describe combat. Soldiers don't die to defend American democracy anymore; they
now give the "last full measure of devotion" for mindless neologisms like "kinetics," soft power, and
nation-building.
Obama
White House Blocked Needed U.S. Arms Sale to Taiwan. The Obama administration blocked a $1 billion arms sale to
Taiwan in December that was needed to improve the island's defenses despite approval from the State Department and Pentagon,
according to Trump administration officials. The scuttling of the arms package was a set back for U.S. and Taiwanese
efforts to bolster defenses against a growing array of Chinese missiles and other advanced weaponry deployed across the
100-mile Taiwan Strait. The action coincided with a controversial pre-inaugural phone call Dec. 2 between
then-President-elect Trump and Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen.
U.S. publishes details of missile base
Israel wanted kept secret. Israel's military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details
of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests. The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a
state-of-the-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3.
The
Biggest Threat to Britain's National Security Is Barack Obama. As British Prime Minister David Cameron
hangs out with President Obama this week, he should remember that he is watching basketball and chewing on hot dogs
with the man who represents the biggest threat to Britain's national security.
Loose lips.
NBC News is reporting that Israeli spies have been involved in the assassinations of five Iranian nuclear scientists.
So far, not so bad. We'd say the engineers basically needed killing. But here's the astonishing part:
The source for the story apparently is the Obama administration — albeit through anonymous leaks.
[Italics in original.] Obama's Final Solution.
[Scroll down] The Pentagon has just released a humiliating admission that Obama's vaunted anti-missile defense
for Europe against Iranian missiles is never going to work. George W. Bush negotiated workable
anti-missile missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic, in the path of Iranian missiles to Europe's capital
cities. Obama sabotaged that plan, leaving Aegis naval ships in various places as a fig leaf. The
Pentagon has admitted that Europe is now undefended. Obama's purpose may be to force Europe to turn
against Israel at the United Nations.
British
Navy running short of Tomahawk missiles. Defence insiders say as many as 12 of the weapons have
been fired from the hunter — killer submarine Triumph in the past four days. If this is correct,
the [British] Navy will have used up to 20 per cent of its 64 Tomahawks in the opening salvos of
the war, leading to fears that it is "burning through" its armoury.
Christmas
arrives early for Vladimir Putin. Never before has an American president put the defense of the
country's "common strategic interests" in the hands of an unreliable rival's "defense capabilities." The
president thinks defense against long-range missiles is not so important any more, anyway. Maybe an enemy
will be considerate enough to dispatch short-range missiles. Maybe the Russians will help get a
resolution through the United Nations condemning Iran's nuclear-weapons program. Maybe Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad will repent and find a peaceful religion. We can hope for change.
Where Do We Go for Hope?
The Obama administration's decision on missile defense, as with virtually every move the Obama team has made in
foreign policy, is both deeply naive and deeply cynical. It is naive in conceiving that our adversaries
simply must respond to our apologies, retreats, reversals, and unilateral-disarmament efforts with some
comparable gesture, as if they fear being thought ungracious or rude if they don't reciprocate in a timely manner.
Obama
on Missile Defense: Alarming and Dangerous. President Obama has made a dangerous and
alarming decision to shelve our missile-defense system in Europe. Facing the growing threat from Iran's
nuclear ambition, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has worked long and hard to secure a site for the
system to thwart a potential strike against our European allies. Developing the missile shield could
also have important implications for U.S. security.
Obama scraps Star
Wars and gambles on Russia. Barack Obama took a massive foreign policy gamble yesterday when he
scrapped plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe — a major concession to Russia. The
decision to shelve the Bush-era plan for a "Star Wars" defence system was denounced by Republicans as
appeasing Moscow and caused dismay among former Soviet satellites.
Abject Surrender In Dead Of
Night. With Iran on the verge of a deliverable nuke, the administration tells our allies in
the dead of night that we will scuttle missile defense plans in Eastern Europe to please the Russians.
US
missile shield: Appeasement is alive and well in Barack Obama's White House. Until he
starts achieving results, rather than constantly making concessions, many people will be inclined to agree
with the dismissive comment that a former Bush speechwriter claims his boss made last year, when Mr Obama was
still only a presidential candidate: "This is a dangerous world, and this cat isn't remotely qualified
to handle it."
Obama's Missile
Offense. President Obama promised he would win America friends where, under George W. Bush,
it had antagonists. The reality is that the U.S. is working hard to create antagonists where it previously
had friends. That's one conclusion to draw from President Obama's decision yesterday [9/17/2009] to scrap
a missile-defense agreement the Bush Administration negotiated with Poland and the Czech Republic.
Putin
pushed, Bam buckled. President Obama cited technical factors yesterday [9/17/2009] that might, arguably,
justify his scrapping of a planned European shield against Iranian missiles. But as political strategy, there's
just one way to describe his move: It's a major US setback.
A Stab in the
Back. President Obama's decision to cancel plans for U.S. missile defense sites in Poland and
the Czech Republic is a knife in the back for those countries. The implications for U.S. security and
the transatlantic relationship are profound. Critics rightly note that the sudden announcement Thursday [9/17/2009]
sends a dangerous message to allies, both in Europe and elsewhere, who rely on U.S. security guarantees.
General Electric:
Obama's Halliburton? The hypocrisy permeating the policy decisions emanating from the Obama White House
continues. General Electric will directly benefit from Obama's decision to renege on a deal to provide Eastern
Europe with missile defense systems.
Obama
helps strengthen General Electric-Putin ties. General Electric may be the company with the
closest ties to the Obama administration (if not, GE is second only to Goldman Sachs), and here we see the
company benefiting from an abrupt foreign policy change made by President Obama. But GE isn't the only
company benefiting.
Did America betray
Poland? Or it was just Obama? It was the worst thing that the American government could
do. This decision was announced on 17 September, when Poland was commemorating the 70th anniversary
of the Soviet Invasion Day, when the Soviet Union allied with Nazis and stabbed our country in the back. ... At
the same day, 70 years later, Obama bowed to the Kremlin. It was something that created great
turmoil in all of Poland. What is even worse — people here feel that they were betrayed.
It's not only about the anti-missile shield. It's about the Polish attitude towards the USA.
The United States was seen as the great defender of freedom and democracy all around the world.
Obama received exactly nothing for selling
out America's friends. The hallmarks of the Obama foreign policy have been craven —
and thus far futile — efforts to appease America's enemies, and callous treatment of our allies.
The most recent outrage was the administration's unilateral abrogation of treaties with Poland and the Czech
Republic to put anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs) and radars in their countries.
When Defenses Go Down.
The president's announcement that the United States would not deploy long-range missile defenses in Eastern Europe after all
was astonishing because George W. Bush had negotiated so patiently with the Czechs and Poles, who took considerable
risks in cooperating with Washington.
Is Obama A Fool? Scott is
on record as believing that he is; I have reserved judgment. President Obama's apparently unilateral
concession to Russia in abandoning our anti-missile defense system in central Europe, with no publicly-acknowledged
quid pro quo, may support the view that in international relations, at least, Obama is a fool.
The Editor says...
There is another possibility: Perhaps Obama knows exactly what he is doing and is putting
our allies in danger intentionally.
Obama The Impotent:
A Dangerous Delusion. The Obama administration has vowed to "reset" our relations with strategic
adversaries like Russia — a country which has been gobbling up and threatening its smaller democratic
neighbors. Obama is equally proud of his "outstretched hand" to declared enemies like Iran, which for
years provided the Iraqi insurgents with the munitions to kill American soldiers, and which recently has been
shooting its own people in the streets. Meanwhile, loyal allies like Poland and the Czech Republic are sold
out and left defenseless when Obama reneged on the long-planned deployment of anti-missile systems in
Eastern Europe.
Fall Of The Wall? U.S. Sends
Regrets. The White House has announced our absence at ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary
of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Meanwhile, Russia has been practicing a nuclear invasion of an
abandoned Poland.
Barack Obama's refusal to back Britain over the Falklands is a disgrace.
The Obama administration's decision to remain neutral in the dispute between Great Britain and Argentina
over the Falkland Islands is a shameful decision that will go down very badly across the Atlantic. As The
Times has just reported, Washington has point blank refused to support British sovereignty over the Falklands,
and is adopting a strictly neutral approach.
America
betrays Britain in her hour of need. It was a headline I never expected to read: "US refuses
to endorse British sovereignty in Falklands oil dispute." Washington has declined to back Britain in its
dispute with Argentina over drilling rights in the waters surrounding the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and
the Sandwich Islands. President Obama's position is one of strict neutrality, refusing to take sides.
American
neutrality on the Falklands is a symptom of US foreign policy drift. The Bush administration got a
lot of things wrong — but at least they usually had some idea of who America's adversaries were and who
America's friends were. ... In contrast, Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are apparently clueless
about some of the most basic aspects of foreign policy: supporting one's friends and fencing in one's
adversaries.
Falklands Fallacy.
The U.S., which backed Britain to the hilt when Argentina invaded its Falklands in 1982, has suddenly gone
neutral on who has sovereignty over the islands. This is much more than a bad slap to our best ally.
The British
Aren't So Special to Obama. Barack Obama, it was claimed, would "repair" our reputation both
with our enemies and our friends. So how has he done? Let's take Britain for example. Has
he "fixed" our special relationship with the British Isles?
Obama's
domestic war on democracy. The outlines of the emerging Obama Doctrine had begun to be obvious:
He would engage, indulge, and look kindly on the likes of tyrants like Iran and North Korea, who armed to the teeth
while threatening to eviscerate Israel and South Korea. But when it came to democracies and political,
strategic, and historic allies of this country, their welcome and luck had run out.
Obama Selling Out Our
Allies. With increasing frequency members of the Obama administration have been turning their
backs on America's strongest allies. The administration is forming new partnerships which appear to be
based solely on emotion and the desire to appear politically correct rather than on agreements to work
together to meet mutual needs in a long-term relationship.
Obama's destructive
foreign policy. The outlines of an Obama Doctrine have been apparent for some time. It can
be summarized in nine ... words: Embolden our enemies. Undermine our friends. Diminish
our country. These days, it is hard to avoid proof that these outcomes are not inadvertent or attributable
to sheer and sustained incompetence. Rather, they are a product of deliberate decisions approved, we must
assume, by the president himself.
Obama
to Taiwan: No new F-16s. F-16 Reports out today in Washington say that President Obama
has approved a new arms sales package for Taiwan but that it does not include the 66 F-16 fighter
jets the island nation wants to buy from Lockheed Martin.
Obama's Fighter Plane Refusal Dooms Taiwan.
President Obama's refusal to sell modern fighters to longtime ally Republic of China (Taiwan) dooms that
country, frightens our allies, and robs America of needed jobs. Worse, it tells Communist China that
America's foreign policy and her democratic principles are for sale. Last week Obama agreed to refurbish
Taiwan's 1980s vintage F-16A/B fighter fleet rather than sell the island nation the much-needed modern F-16C/D
fighters or the state-of-the-art stealth F-35, which outmatch China's fighters.
What
thanks does Britain get? 'Neutrality' on the Falklands. Barack Obama may have rolled out the red carpet for David Cameron at the White
House last month, flown the Prime Minister on Air Force One to Ohio, and lavished him with a state dinner, but he still won't back America's closest
ally over the Falklands, sticking to a policy of "neutrality".
U.S. Allies Left
in the Dark. U.S. allies are raising concerns about what they say is unwillingness on
the part of the Obama administration to share vital intelligence that could prove decisive in
conflicts in Europe and the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday [2/27/2015]
that U.S. officials degrade satellite images of the positions of Russian-backed separatists before delivering
them to Ukrainian forces, delaying their arrival and making them less effective for combating the rebels.
The United States also provided the Ukrainian military with short-range counter-artillery radar systems but
omitted crucial components that would have enabled the Ukrainians to immediately respond to separatist attacks.
Women in combat, women included in the draft
Women Don't Belong in Combat Units. The Obama-era
policy of integrating women into ground combat units is a misguided social experiment that threatens military readiness and
wastes resources in the service of a political agenda. The next defense secretary should end it.
US
Navy Redesigning its Submarines to Accommodate Women. Every submarine in the U.S. fleet was designed with the
height, reach and strength of men in mind, from the way valves are placed to how display screens are angled. That's
going to change.
The Editor says...
Can you imagine working with a five-foot munchkin who can't even open a jelly jar, when it becomes necessary to shut off a steam valve?
Deployed
US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It's Getting Worse. A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from
ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Daily Caller
News Foundation's Investigative Group. That number is up 2 percent from 2015, representing hundreds more who have to
cut their deployments short, taxing both their unit's manpower, military budgets and combat readiness. Further, such
increases cast a shadow over the lofty gender integration goals set by former President Barack Obama. Overall, women
unexpectedly leave their stations on Navy ships as much as 50% more frequently to return to land duty, according to documents
obtained from the Navy.
Female
Marines to sleep next to male Marines in field. Female infantry Marines will be sleeping in makeshift shelters
next to their male counterparts when out in the field and no special accommodation will be offered to them, a Marine Corps
official said Thursday [1/26/2017].
Obama
to Armed Forces: 'Women Are at Least as Strong as Men'. President Barack Obama celebrated the social changes
made in the military during his administration by allowing gays to serve openly in the Armed Forces and opening combat roles
to women. "Joe Biden and I know that women are as least as strong as men," he said. "We're stronger for it."
During his speech, Obama called the American armed forces the greatest fighting force in the world and celebrated its new found
committment to diversity.
Navy
Secretary: If Trump Rolls Back Female Integration, There Will Be Consequences. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said recently in a
December interview that while GOP President-elect Donald Trump can roll back social change in the military, doing so will make the force weaker.
Mabus, who has served in the position longer than anyone since World War I, has overseen significant social changes in the military and caused
a lot of consternation in the process. Now, in a wide-ranging interview with The Washington Post, he's warning that if Trump rolls back
social change in the military, he should admit that it will damage the force.
White
House: Obama supports registering women for military draft. President Obama supports requiring women to
register for Selective Service when they turn 18 — becoming the first president to endorse universal draft
registration since Jimmy Carter. "As old barriers for military service are being removed, the administration
supports — as a logical next step — women registering for the Selective Service," said Ned Price, a
spokesman for Obama's National Security Council. The White House had previously expressed neutrality on the controversy,
but took a position in a statement to USA TODAY on Thursday [12/1/2016].
Air
Force testing new maternity uniforms. The Air Force is in the testing phase of a new maternity uniform it plans
to introduce to female airmen next October, the Dayton Daily News reported. The redesigned maternity uniform will be
made of new fabrics with greater stretch, will have more buttons, more pockets to store cellphones, keys, pencils and ID
passes, and will look more like what airmen wear daily on the job. [...] Uniforms come up for review every 10 years, and it
takes three years to get approval for a new clothing item. There is a need to update maternity uniforms, as 1 out of
every 5 airmen are women, the most among U.S. military branches.
Army
Sec: Trump Would Have Trouble Rolling Back Women in Combat. Army Secretary Eric Fanning said Thursday [11/17/2016]
that it would be "very hard" for the Donald Trump administration to roll back the Pentagon's decision to open up all combat
jobs to women. Fanning was asked at a summit hosted by Defense One whether Trump would be able to undo the Defense Department's
new policies on women in combat roles and transgender troops, which were referred to by moderator and Wall Street Journal reporter
Gordon Lubold as "social engineering in the military." Fanning said the initiatives will be hard to stop because of societal
changes. He also said it is harder to reverse decisions about who can "wear the uniform" than those about who can be forced
to remove it.
Navy
Changed Job Titles to 'Quit Segregating Women'. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus on Wednesday [10/12/2016] defended his
decision to prioritize making Navy and Marine Corps job titles gender neutral, saying that the services needed to "quit segregating
women." "It's to quit segregating women. We do it by uniforms; women wear different uniforms. Can you imagine if
we ask another group to wear a different kind of uniform?" Mabus said during remarks at the National Press Club. "Ratings
names change all the time, all the time. When I was in, 45 years ago, the people that were in my division were radiomen
and signalmen. We don't have any of those anymore. Those ratings have changed. Corpsmen, our medics, that rating
came in after World War II." "We change these things all the time, and I thought that it was important to be gender neutral,"
the secretary added.
Update: Navy Sides With
Seamen, Not Social Justice. Did you know that earlier this year, the Navy announced it was changing its
centuries-old rating system for sailors, because gendered titles like "yeoman" were supposedly sexist? I couldn't
reach ISIS for comment, but I suspect they were giggling like schoolgirls at the priorities of America's Armed Forces.
Luckily for us all, common sense and the fortitude of America's sailors has trumped social justice. The Navy is
scrapping the plan. This surely is another win for President-elect Trump a month before he takes the office.
America's Back! Navy Adm.
Brings Back Traditional Job Titles Eliminated During Obama Admin. President Barack Obama may be the leader of
the free world, but he cannot stand in the path of 241 years of tradition. Of all the United States armed forces, the
Navy has arguably the most tradition, and the Obama administration was more than willing to shred it in 2016. January brought
the proposed installation of gender-neutral job titles and with it the loss of such beloved traditions as airman, seaman, yeoman
and fireman, according to the Navy Times.
Marine
Corps' top brass in Washington silences 'women in combat' dissent. Marine Corps headquarters has sent out a
Communications Playbook that says top brass in Washington, not local public affairs officers, will control press statements
about women in combat. The edict was issued in the aftermath of strong disagreements with civilian leaders on gender
integration. The Corps normally gives wide latitude for spokespeople worldwide to discuss all sorts of Marine
issues — but not in this case.
US
Sailor Gives Birth Aboard Aircraft Carrier in Persian Gulf. A U.S. sailor is doing fine after giving birth to a
baby she said she didn't know was expecting aboard a Navy aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf on Sunday [9/11/2016].
According to a Navy spokesman, the sailor had complained this weekend of abdominal pain and was admitted to the USS Dwight D.
Eisenhower's medical department. That's when the ship's medical team discovered she was pregnant and about to give birth.
Female Marine
drops out of infantry course. The only female officer enrolled in the Marine Corps' Infantry Officer's Course
has dropped out after failing to complete two conditioning hikes last month, according to the Marine Corps' Training and
Education Command.
Marine Corps
to Ban 'Infantryman'. The Marine Corps is eliminating the job title "basic infantryman" along with 18 others
and replacing them with terms that are gender neutral. Others titles, including "rifleman" and "mortarman," will remain
the same, due to their historical and cultural significance for Marines. The service plans to replace 19 of its
military occupational specialty titles, the Marine Corps Times reported Tuesday, seven months after Navy Secretary
Ray Mabus ordered the Marine Corps to conduct a review of all job titles to ensure gender neutrality.
Conservatives
Have a Plan to Block Women in the Draft. The Senate voted 85-13 Tuesday [6/14/2016] to advance an annual
defense policy bill that would require women to register for the draft. But that doesn't mean the provision is
guaranteed to become law. Opponents of the draft measure will have an opportunity to kill it when the House and Senate
reconcile the differences between their versions of the National Defense Authorization Act in conference. An annual
authorization bill, this year's $602 billion National Defense Authorization Act sets the budget and outlines spending
priorities for defense agencies. The White House has already threatened to veto the legislation.
Senate approves
women registering for the draft. Women may soon be required to register for the military draft. The
Senate overwhelmingly passed a $602 billion defense bill Tuesday [6/14/2016] that included an amendment that would require
women to register for the draft — also known as the selective service — for the first time in history.
Obama:
America's Military Is Stronger Because All Combat Positions Are Open to Women. In a commencement speech Thursday [6/2/2016] to
graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., President Barack Obama said the U.S. military is stronger because women can
now serve in all combat positions and because the U.S. is closing the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
Defense
Secretary Ponders How to Change 'Unmanned' Job Titles to Gender-Neutral Wording. Defense Secretary Ashton
Carter expressed openness today [5/25/2016] to editing military job titles to make "man" more gender-neutral, even as he
struggled with a way to make "unmanned" less masculine. The Marine Corps Times reported last week that the
service is reviewing its job titles — rifleman, infantryman, etc. — in the wake of all combat roles
being opened to women and a January directive from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for the Corps and the Navy to ensure those job
descriptions are gender-neutral. Every job title that includes "man" is up for review and potentially on the editing block.
Male
and Female Still Matter in Combat. Less than a year after the Supreme Court decided that marriage no longer
needs partners of the opposite sex, the other two branches of the federal government are moving rapidly to eliminate all
rational distinctions based on sex. Taken together, these new actions reflect the unscientific (but oh-so-politically
correct) dogma that there are no fundamental, biological differences between male and female.
Drafting
Women: Do We Believe in Equality or Don't We? [Scroll down] One of the arguments for giving
18-year-olds the vote was that if you're man enough to make the ultimate sacrifice — perhaps having to fight and
die for your country — you're man enough to vote for those who may send you to war. The idea is that with
responsibility comes authority. We don't give children adult authority, but they also don't have adult-level
responsibility (this is one reason they aren't punished as harshly for crimes). Yet isn't it also true that with authority
comes responsibility? If women are "man enough" to vote for those who may send Americans off to war, should they not be
considered man enough to have to make that ultimate sacrifice? Some might even say our current status quo ensures that
women, especially single women without military-age male family members, will have little or no skin in the game.
Senate
Republicans Want to Send Your Daughters to War. It is becoming harder and harder to tell the two major
political parties apart. Today in Washington, all but three Senate Republicans on the Armed Services Committee voted to
require your daughters to sign up for selective service and be drafted in times of war. Mike Lee offered an amendment
to yank the requirement. The members supporting the amendment were Lee, Cruz, Rounds, Inhofe, Sessions, Wicker and
Cotton. But the rest of the committee insists girls should sign up for the selective service.
John
McCain Slips in Provision to Draft Women in Defense Bill. Pregnant, female, Navy SEALs was something many of us
used to joke about as a way of exaggerating the absurd social engineering in the military. Yet, placing women in
special operations and direct combat units has now become a reality under the Obama-led Pentagon. Sadly, not only have
Republicans like John McCain refused to use their perches on the Armed Services Committees in the House and Senate to block
this social engineering, they are now codifying it with a provision that could lead to a mandatory draft of all women.
Marines
approve female rifleman, machine gunner for infantry. The Marine Corps on Monday [5/9/2016] approved requests
from two women to enter the infantry as military occupational specialists, a new report says. One woman received
permission to become a rifleman, while the other is becoming a machine gunner, according to The Marine Corps Times.
30th
Female To Try Marine Infantry Officer Course Just Failed Miserably. The 30th female Marine to attempt the
service's demanding Infantry Office Course (IOC) just flunked out, making it to day 11 out of a total of 84. The
name of this female Marine officer has not been released, though she said she will try and repeat the course later this summer
in July, Military.com reports. Officers trying for an infantry military occupational specialty get two tries.
Louisiana
woman, 25, makes history as the first female to enlist in the US Army Infantry. A 25-year-old Louisiana woman
made history this week after becoming the first female to enlist in the US Army Infantry School. Tammy Grace Barnett, a
former police officer, took the oath of enlistment on Thursday [4/7/2016] at the Military Entrance Processing Station in
Shreveport. Barnett initially planned to join the military police, before deciding she wanted to serve her country on
the front lines.
Russia
and China Increase Defense Spending While US Continues Cutting. [Scroll down] First, we live in a world
of growing threats against U.S. vital interests. [...] Second, the U.S. military budget has been cut by 25 percent in the
last five years. This has resulted in dramatic declines in the U.S. military's ability to fight and win. Fifteen
years of conflict and years of tight budgets have taken a grave toll, worsened by these budget cuts. Top military
leaders have told Congress that their readiness is, as the vice chief of staff of the Air Force recently put it, "at a near
all-time low due to continuous combat operations, reduced manpower, an aging fleet, and inconsistent funding."
Navy
women issued iconic 'Dixie cup' for first time. Navy recruits will soon don the same head covers, as part of a
junior enlisted uniform overhaul led by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to promote gender equality in appearance. The days are
numbered for the women's bucket cover, as women at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. were fitted for "Dixie cups"
at uniform issue on Monday [4/4/2016].
Feminizing the
Military. It seems that the Obamafied military, led by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is no longer concerned
about winning wars or even battles. It has a new goal: gender equity. Now the military, even the Marines will
dedicate its efforts to help women to fulfill their true potential. By giving them special privileges in order to
foster diversity. Better yet, by putting them in combat.
'Macho'
Marine Corps ordered to implement revolutionary changes to accommodate women. The Marine Corps commandant has laid out a
campaign to impose "cultural change" in macho ground combat units to make sure warriors display no resistance to accepting and mentoring
women. The "Marine Corps Force Integration Campaign Plan," approved by Gen. Robert B. Neller, sparks a revolution in training
and education as the 182,000-strong expeditionary force prepares for the Obama administration's April 1 deadline to start the process
of putting women in infantry, armor and artillery units.
Marines
brace for mandatory sensitivity training. If you need more proof that the Obama administration has turned the
greatest fighting force on the planet into a social engineering petri dish, just consider what's about to be forced upon the
Marine Corps. Marines will soon be forced to attend "unconscious bias" training — in advance of the women
joining the infantry.
Women in Combat? I Think Not!
Feminists always point to the Israeli model for advocating women in combat but according to Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times:
"a closer look shows Israeli women are not in direct combat special operations such as the Green Berets. Nor are they in front-line
combat brigades mobilized to engage in direct heavy combat. In the infantry, virtually all of Israel's female combat soldiers are
confined to two light battalions — the Caracal and the Lions of Jordan — which are assigned to guard the borders
with Egypt and Jordan, the only Arab countries that have peace treaties with Israel." Israel is one of only a few countries in the
world (along with Norway and Eritrea) with a mandatory military service requirement for women. Considering that this small country
is surrounded and besieged daily by hostile forces, it makes perfect sense to have as much of the citizenry, male and female, involved in
its survival. That being said, there are allowable exceptions to service that include religion, marriage, pregnancy or parenthood.
President
Obama to Nominate First Female Combatant Commander. President Obama will nominate Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson
for combatant commander of U.S Northern Command, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced this morning [3/18/2016]. If
confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first female combatant commander. The U.S. military has nine combatant commands
responsible for U.S. military planning and activity in specific regions of the world and specialty forces, like U.S. Special
Operations Command. As the commander of U.S. Northern Command, Robinson would coordinate the response of military forces in the
United States for homeland defense. She would also command NORAD, which provides air defense for the United States and Canada.
SecDef:
'There Tend to Be Physical and Other Physiological Differences Between Men and Women'. Defense Secretary Ashton
Carter announced on Thursday [3/10/2016] that he has formally approved plans prepared by the individual military services and U.S.
Special Operations Command to integrate women into all combat roles. [...] Studies conducted by both the Army and Marine Corps
found that women participating in ground combat training sustained injuries at higher rates than men, particularly in load-bearing
occupations. Carter said the military will "gain new insights" as more women enter previously closed positions, and all the
services "will leverage that information to develop new approaches to reduce the potential for higher injury rates."
Defense
Secretary Ash Carter OKs final strategy for women in combat. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter approved Thursday [3/10/2016]
final plans from military service branches and the U.S. Special Operations Command to open up all combat jobs to women, and authorized
the military to begin integrating female combat soldiers "right away." All of the services submitted their plan to integrate women
into combat roles by Jan. 1 following Mr. Carter's December decision to open all jobs to women with no exceptions.
What
Navy SEALS are being forced to do now is despicable. The priorities of the Obama administration when it comes
to our U.S. military are absolutely delusional. The focus is on social egalitarianism and "fairness," not on
operational readiness and effectiveness. At a time when we just had ten American Sailors on their knees at gun point
detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy[,] Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus was sending out memos to the
Commandant of the Marine Corps and Chief of Naval Operations to ensure all duty positions in their forces are gender neutral.
Michelle
Obama Celebrates Women Going to War: 'They'll Soon Be Welcome in Every Combat Unit'. In a speech marking
Women's History Month, which was delivered at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday [3/2/2016], First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated
the decision taken by her husband's administration to put young women in all combat roles in the U.S. military. "Thanks
to brilliant, fearless women like General Vaught, today, more than 200,000 women are serving our country in just about every
role and rank," said Mrs. Obama. [...] "So there is so much progress to celebrate," she said.
The Editor says...
Here's an idea: Draft the Obama girls first, and see how Mom likes it.
U.S.
special forces not ready to integrate women, report finds. At a time when U.S. special operations are devising plans for the
mission of accepting women into the male domains of SEALs, Green Berets and Army Rangers, the terrorist-fighting community is facing a looming
readiness problem. The new challenge is tucked inside President Obama's 2017 defense budget. It states that U.S. Special Operations
Command (SOCOM) and its 69,000 personnel are up against "training challenges" and is seeing "minor impacts to the forces' ability to accomplish
missions" that could grow worse. Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs face some limits on training due to cutbacks in fleet and training range
operations, according to a budget overview document sent to Congress last week.
Conscripting
Women Into The Military Displays The West's Death Wish. [Scroll down] At the Senate hearing, Gen. Robert
Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, opined that "Every American who's physically qualified should register for the
draft." Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D-Missouri) stream of consciousness swerved into the following: "Part of me believes that
asking women to register as we ask men to register would maybe possibly open up more recruits as women began to think about, well, the
military is an option for me." Well, senator, part of me thinks that part of you should consider that the federal government
doesn't "ask" men to register any more than it "asks" anyone to pay his taxes. It demands it, senator, even as it would demand
(if you had your way) that our daughters, wives, mothers, and sisters register to be taken forcibly into government service.
Sen.
Mike Lee Prepares Bill To Keep Women From The Draft. Historically, women have never been required to register
for the Selective Service System. Only men between the ages of 18-25 are required to register, and by doing so they could be
drafted into the military and compelled to fight in times of war. Women have been kept from registering for the draft
because of a Department of Defense policy barring women from fighting in combat roles. Recently, the DoD reversed that
policy, which opened up the possibility that women could be required to register for the Selective Service System.
Every
Problem with Women in Combat the GOP Contenders Ignored. Which of the enemies America faces is the most dangerous? Is it North
Korea? ISIS? Iran? A resurgent Russia? A rising China? The answer, in fact, is, none of the above. The warriors
posing the greatest threat to our security are the social justice warriors in the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon.
Cruz:
Drafting women is 'nuts'. Ted Cruz on Sunday [2/7/2016] said he opposes requiring women to register for a potential draft, breaking with Marco Rubio, Jeb
Bush and Chris Christie, all of whom indicated support for opening up the Selective Service to women during Saturday night's [2/6/2016] debate. "I have to admit,
as I was sitting there listening to that conversation, my reaction was, 'Are you guys nuts?'" Cruz said Sunday, speaking at a town hall here. "Listen, we have had
enough with political correctness, especially in the military. Political correctness is dangerous. And the idea that we would draft our daughters to forcibly
bring them into the military and put them in close combat, I think is wrong, it is immoral, and if I am president, we ain't doing it."
Cruz:
It's Nuts, Wrong, Dangerous and Immoral to Draft Women and Put Them In Close Combat. Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday [2/7/2016] talked about his
opposition to drafting women into combat in the U.S. military in remarks to an audience at a town hall in Peterborough, New Hampshire. According
to the Boston Globe, Cruz mentioned Saturday's debate and without naming them referred to his competitors, Sen. Marco Rubio and Governors Jeb Bush and
Chris Christie all of whom said during the debate that they would support requiring women to register for the draft[.]
Draft Registration for Women Would Stir
a Sleepy Government Agency. Once a month, in a windowless office near the Pentagon, specially trained federal employees roll two lottery machines out
of a closet to practice something the government has not had to do in more than 40 years: selecting young Americans for the military draft.
Cruz Says Drafting Women 'Doesn't Make Any
Sense'. Ted Cruz came out against requiring 18-year-old women to register for the Selective Service and the possibility of being drafted into the military.
At a campaign event here Sunday afternoon [2/7/2016], Cruz responded to some of his rivals, like Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, who said in Saturday's debate that women should
have to register.
Only
a Barbaric Nation Drafts Its Mothers and Daughters into Combat. Women have served in non-combat roles for decades
without any serious push for selective-service registration ensuing. In fact, the Supreme Court, in Rostker v. Goldberg
(1981), has used the fact that men and women have different roles as justification for rejecting constitutional objections to the
all-male draft. We have repeatedly condemned the Obama administration's decision to open all combat roles to women, and we
have mainly done so by citing a combination of contemporary studies and historical experience to make the case that gender-integrated
ground-combat units are less effective than their all-male counterparts.
Making
Women Sign Up for the Draft Would be the Height of Stupidity. Conservatives didn't understand why George
Stephanopoulos asked Mitt Romney questions about birth control during one of the debates back in 2012. It seemed like a
bizarre question since it was a non-issue at the time, but it turned out to be foreshadowing of the Democrat strategy to make
birth control a central part of the election. We may have seen the same thing in the New Hampshire debate as liberal
moderator Martha Raddatz asked Republican candidates if they thought young women should be forced to sign up for the draft.
Surprisingly, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie all blundered right into her trap and agreed that we should take the
radical step of forcing young women to sign up for a potential draft.
First
Females Start Applying To Join Marine Special Operations Command. Now that the Pentagon has removed the ban on women in combat, the
first females are eagerly beginning the application process to join Marine Special Operations Command. At least three so far have begun the
application process, Marine Corps Times reports. The first application came in the first week of January. That female applicant was
turned away and told to come back with completed pre-requisites.
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Will Allow Troops On Duty to Breastfeed. As part of his commitment to build the military "force of the future,"
Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday [1/28/2016] announced a series of "family-friendly" initiatives to attract and retain
"the best America has to offer." "We are not Google. We are not Walmart. We're war fighters. But that
doesn't mean we should not be challenging ourselves just like the private sector," Carter told reporters at the Pentagon.
The
few, the foolish. As the Islamic State amped up attacks around the world, the Pentagon responded by bravely
announcing that American women will now be put in direct ground combat. [...] The new decree opens 220,000 military jobs to
women — including Army Special Operations forces and the Navy SEALs. "They'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire
mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat ... and everything else that was previously open only to men," said Defense
Secretary Ashton Carter.
White
House to explore whether to make women eligible for military draft. The White House said Friday it will review
whether women should become eligible for the military draft, in light of the Pentagon's announcement that women will be
allowed to serve in combat units. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said officials will examine a Defense
Department analysis on potential changes to the Selective Service Act, which requires virtually all men in the U.S. between
the ages of 18 and 26 register for the draft, most within 30 days of turning 18. Currently women are exempt.
Could
women soon have to register for the draft? Women could soon have to register for the draft — if the
US military is serious about achieving "true and pure equality," according to a top military official. "If your objective
is true and pure equality then you have to look at all aspects [of the roles of women in the military]," declared Army
Secretary John McHugh.
John
McHugh, Army secretary: Women will, likely have to register for the draft. As female soldiers are becoming more
integrated into combat roles in the Army, Congress will eventually have to decide whether women will have to register for the
draft, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday [10/12/2015]. Mr. McHugh argued that if "true and pure equality" is the
goal in the U.S. military, then the possibility of women registering for the draft, is likely.
How about bring back the draft to
include women? This push to have women in combat is based on an ideological premise
of equality; it is not based on merit or common sense. Feminizing the military is a huge mistake
that will endanger the lives of soldiers who are already in combat situations and that ignores the
physical restraints of women. We are not as physically strong as men. We are not as
muscular. That is a given.
Decision
to allow women in combat roles raises questions about draft. The quickly unveiled announcement that the Pentagon will lift
the ban on women in combat has raised a vexing question that is already prompting debate: Will the move ultimately lead to women being
required to register for the draft?
What remarkable timing! Lawmakers push
for end to draft registration in US. Two lawmakers are waging a little-noticed campaign to abolish the Selective
Service System, the independent federal agency that manages draft registration.
The Blood-Smeared Glass Ceiling.
In one of his last acts as Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta today will revoke the last of the policies that prevent women from serving
in combat arms. Make no mistake about it: this action isn't about civil rights, equal opportunity, or any of the laudable things
America has done in the past fifty years to remove false barriers within the military. This is different. It's a purely
political act that will make our military — and the military families liberals claim to venerate — much weaker than they are
today.
Women in Combat: Be Careful What You
Wish For. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the U.S. military would lift its long-standing ban on
women in combat. The national media, as can be expected, is popping the champagne corks in celebration. But is it a good
thing? As a woman and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, I'm not so sure. To those who have been agitating for this step, I say
this: be careful what you wish for.
The
rape of the US Marine Corps: a lunatic drive for 'fairness'. Gen. John Kelly, USMC, is retiring after more than
four decades as an active-duty Marine. His "greatest fear," he says, is that the vast "equal opportunity" pressure for women
in combat roles will lead the Pentagon to water down standards. Kelly is finishing up as head of US Southern Command after
an exemplary career that included three tours in Iraq. He's also the highest-ranking US officer to have lost a child in the
nation's post-9/11 wars: His son, 1st Lt. Robert Kelly, USMC, was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2010. Why
is he worried? Well, Defense Secretary Ash Carter last month announced that women will soon be eligible for all combat
positions. (They had been blocked from about 10 percent of those posts.)
Marine
Corps boot camp, job titles to be gender neutral by April. The Marine Corps has been ordered to come up with a plan to make its enlisted
entry-level training coed, and to make its job titles more gender-neutral following the recent move to open all military combat roles to women. In a
Jan. 1 memo to Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus requested a "detailed plan" on how the service will fully integrate its
boot camp and Officer Candidate School. The plan is due Jan. 15 and will be implemented by April 1, the memo states.
Obama:
'Bisexual Men and Women in Uniform Make Our Country Stronger'. President Barack Obama, who is vacationing in
Hawaii, released a pre-Christmas statement yesterday [12/22/2015], celebrating the fifth anniversary of his having signed
legislation that allows openly homosexual, lesbian and bisexual individuals to serve in the U.S. military. "Today,
Americans can serve the country they love no matter who they love, and openly gay, lesbian and bisexual men and women in
uniform make our military stronger and America safer," said the president.
Is
move by Defense Department 'to provide a level, gender-neutral playing field' realistic? [Scroll down]
Then there's hand-to-hand combat training, which comes near the end of the Army's basic training. Recruits spend a few hours
facing off against each other in pugil stick bouts. Pugil sticks are padded training weapons used since World War II by each
branch of the military to train service members for hand-to-hand rifle and bayonet combat. The object of the training is to
subdue your opponent. Women are at a severe disadvantage because upper-body strength really counts. Given the timidity
and character of today's military leaders, I predict several possibilities: Training with pugil sticks will be banned, or
servicewomen will train only against other servicewomen, or, if the training is integrated, servicemen will be court-martialed
if they knock out or knock down a servicewoman. Even if our military leaders fudge this aspect of training, what happens
in actual combat when hand-to-hand skills are called upon?
Senators
blast order barring female guards from transporting Gitmo inmates. Female soldiers serving at Guantanamo Bay are not
being allowed to transport inmates following a court order issued in response to prisoners who complained on religious grounds,
according to Republican senators who recently returned from a visit to the prison camp. Inmates apparently complained the
female soldiers' actions were an insult to their Islamic faith, but the senators blasted the court decision as an "insult to
women." Top U.S. military leaders agreed the directive is "outrageous," while suggesting they're currently bound by the order.
'Flawed'
study casts doubts on mixed-gender units in US Marine Corps. A US marine corps study on the fighting ability of women,
conducted before a national decision about opening all combat roles to female soldiers, is "fundamentally flawed", according to critics
who received hundreds of pages of leaked data from the controversial trials. The same critics said the corps' decision to release
only a four-page summary of its study, which focused on negative aspects of women as marines while keeping the bulk of the study under
wraps, was "hugely problematic".
Was It Fixed? Army General Told
Subordinates: 'A Woman Will Graduate Ranger School,' Sources Say. "A woman will graduate Ranger School," a general
told shocked subordinates this year while preparing for the first females to attend a "gender integrated assessment" of the grueling
combat leadership course starting April 20, sources tell PEOPLE. "At least one will get through." That directive
set the tone for what was to follow, sources say. "It had a ripple effect" at Fort Benning, where Ranger School is based,
says a source with knowledge of events at the sprawling Georgia Army post. "Even though this was supposed to be just an
assessment, everyone knew. The results were planned in advance."
General: Military 'Degraded' by
Obama. These women were the beneficiaries of a deliberate and systematic unfairness intended to achieve a
politically approved outcome. The waste of resources involved in this dishonest endeavor — including
extra training that required personnel to be specially assigned to prepare the women trainees — was conducted at
taxpayer expense. The demoralization of male troops involved in this fraud was not least among the detrimental effects.
Marines
expected to ask to keep some combat jobs closed to women. The Marine Corps is expected to ask to keep several
front-line combat jobs closed to women, a senior military official told Fox News — bucking the trend being
followed by the other three military services. The official said the Marine Corps would request a waiver to keep women
excluded from infantry and artillery positions, but not armor positions like serving in tank units. The Associated Press,
citing U.S. officials, first reported Friday [9/18/2015] that the Corps' tentative decision has ignited tension between Navy
and Marine leaders and raised a debate over whether Navy Secretary Ray Mabus can veto any Marine Corps proposal to prohibit
women from serving in certain infantry and reconnaissance positions.
The Editor says...
"Women in combat" is no longer news. Now the news is there are some military jobs that women won't have.
Mabus
Throws Down: All Combat Positions In Dept Of Navy Will Open To Women. Despite considerable backlash from within
the service, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said again Monday that the Marine Corps infantry and Navy SEALs will open up to women,
no matter what. After receiving heated comments from both male and female Marines who participated in and ran a Marine
Corps integration study, Mabus clarified Monday at a forum by the City Club of Cleveland that many of the gender gaps on
performance could be closed with more training and leadership. What this means is that he's sticking to his original
plan that all combat jobs in the Department of the Navy will open up to women.
Obama's Navy Secretary Slanders
Marines. A new nine-month-long study by the Marine Corps found that including women in combat units had a negative impact
on unit cohesion and performance, the Washington Post reports: [...] But Navy secretary Ray Mabus immediately dismissed the study
and attributed its conclusions to preconceived prejudices of the Marines who conducted it.
Marine
Corps Study: Male Combat Units Safer, More Efficient and Lethal Than Mixed-Gender Units. According to a study
produced by a special task force of the United States Marine Corps, a combat unit comprised of both males and females is a
much less effective fighting force than a unit comprised entirely of men. The study, "The Marine Corps Force Integration
Plan," found that the mixed-gender unit was injured twice as often as an all-male unit, was less accurate with infantry
weapons, and was less efficient at removing wounded troops from the battlefield. A summary of the study was released
September 10.
Settled But Superfluous Science. [A] nine
month-long study done for the U.S. Marine Corps of 400 co-ed Marines in combat training shows that men Marines shoot their rifles more
accurately than women, are able to move faster carrying heavy gear, and are better at removing wounded troops from the battle-field.
Men could throw their heavy packs over a wall. The women had to be helped. The men Marines in rigorous training suffered
injuries to muscles, tendons, and ligaments at a rate of 18.8 percent. Women Marines suffered these kinds of injuries at a
rate of 40.5 percent.
Not
A Surprise: How All-Male Marine Units Stack Up Against Units With Female Members. Well, I can see how some will
find this problematic and micro-aggressiony. No one with any common sense, of course. Just the Obama Administration
and other social justice warriors. [...] It's just that the all male units are more effective, and considering what's at stake
when they need to be effective, we should probably let them be.
Sorry,
Military Is No Place For Gender-Based Social Experiments. Courses like the Rangers and Airborne School are a
useful though crude measure in weeding out massive numbers of applicants. But they're just part of the process for
determining who gets assigned to what units doing what jobs. That's especially true when the military has a history of
lowering the bar for women. The West Point military academy admits that its physical standards are far easier for women,
whereas the Army's Airborne School used to deny it but now publishes standards showing just that.
Putting
Women in Combat Is an Even Worse Idea Than You'd Think. Putting women into close combat roles
isn't fair to the men who will be relying on them, and isn't fair to the women who will find themselves
continuously at a deadly disadvantage. When we send our soldiers into combat we should be giving them
the best possible chance of succeeding and surviving. While women are equal to or better than men at
many tasks, they simply aren't when it comes to combat. Substituting men for far less combat-capable
women is profoundly unfair, immoral, and utterly unnecessary.
All
19 women have washed out of Army Ranger School — in the first phase. The
eight women who remained in the first gender-integrated class of Army Ranger training will not move
onto the next round of training, Fort Benning announced on Friday [5/8/2015]. That means all
19 women who began the training in April have washed out in the first phase. The eight women,
together with 101 men who washed out of the Darby phase, will retry the first part of the Army's
most elite training course beginning May 14, the release said.
The
Feminist Fantasy of Women in Combat. President Obama seems hellbent on forcing the
women of the U.S. military into direct combat units at great potential risk both to themselves and
their fellow soldiers. Obama supplicants in the military have been cowed by radical feminist
ideology. They are promoting change for the sake of ideology, not because it is actually needed.
No
female Marines pass Infantry Officer Course by experiment's end. The Marine Corps'
historic experiment to allow women to take part in its Infantry Officer Course ended with zero
female graduates. The last two female applicants hoping to make it through the course were cut
during the Combat Endurance Test on April 2, along with nine of the 90 male Marines who applied for
the program, Marine Corps Times reported Wednesday [4/8/2015]. Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt.
Maureen Krebs told Military.com that female applicants were not expected to meet the same physical
fitness screening standards as men, but they were required to match male performance in the course.
Special
ops troops doubt women can do the job. Surveys find that men in U.S. special
operations forces do not believe women can meet the physical and mental demands of their commando
jobs, and they fear the Pentagon will lower standards to integrate women into their elite units,
according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.
60
Minutes and Women in Combat Training. In the past, the Marine Corps has kept details
of this very difficult course and its entrance requirements under wraps in the belief it is better
for our adversaries not to know exactly what goes into the making of a Marine infantry officer.
That the Corps allowed CBS to film as much of it as they did was surprising to many Marines. My
belief is that the Corps wants the world to see firsthand that it is the physical requirements of
Marine infantry officer training keeping females out, not some bull-headed misogyny, as so many
feminists contend.
Integrating
women into combat reduces effectiveness, harms unit cohesion. As the American military
prepares to open all combat positions to women by 2016, a British report found that integrating
women into combat would reduce effectiveness in battle and could harm unit cohesion. The British
report, released in December, found that physiological differences put women at a disadvantage in
both strength-based and aerobic fitness tests. Even women who are able to overcome the physiological
disadvantage will likely get injured more easily or get tired quicker, making them easier targets and
poorer marksmen in combat. "These are about biology rather than character," the report states.
Air
Force Announces 'Diversity and Inclusion' Initiatives to Recruit More Women. The
United States Air Force announced new initiatives to recruit and retain more women and minorities,
as Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James warned that those who choose to not understand "diversity
and inclusion" will not thrive in the service. The changes include giving women shorter than
5 feet 3 inches waivers so they can meet the height requirements to become pilots and
"gender-neutral standards for all jobs."
DOD
Nominee: 'I Strongly Incline Towards Opening' All Positions in Military to Women. "Are
you committed to allowing women to serve in all positions and to gender-neutral standards for each
of the services?" Sen. Kirsten Gillbrand (D-N.Y.) asked Defense Secretary nominee Ashton Carter at
his confirmation hearing on Wednesday [2/45/2015]. "I'm certainly committed to gender-neutral
standards," Carter replied. He noted that the armed services are now examining whether there
are any positions in the military that should not be open to women.
The
Marines test out women in front line combat roles. We knew this was coming for a
while, but apparently the Marines have moved full speed ahead on evaluating women for all combat
roles. This will be rolling out over the course of many months as they evaluate how well female
warriors can adapt to the needs of the Corps without compromising on the requirements for the job.
Congress
moves to require women to register for military draft. House lawmakers took a large step toward putting female
soldiers on the front lines on Wednesday [4/27/2016], approving legislation requiring women to register for the draft.
Members of the House Armed Services committee passed the measure as part of the panel's version of the defense spending bill
for fiscal year 2017, according to the Associated Press. After a lengthy, and at times heated debate, the legislation only
passed by a slim two vote margin with the bill's main sponsor California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter actually voting
against the measure during the House defense spending bill markup on Wednesday [4/27/2016].
Pregnant troops
leave the war; Central Command not counting. U.S. Central Command is not
tracking the number of troops who must leave the Iraq war theater due to pregnancy, prompting
military advocates to charge the Pentagon wants to keep secret what could be an
embarrassing statistic.
Female
Soldiers Face More Danger in Iraq. When a roadside bomb in Iraq
exploded on Feb. 9, [2005] Army Sgt. Jessica M. Housby became the 21st female
soldier killed in action in Iraq. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for
Military Readiness, says the Army is misleading Congress by denying that women in support
companies are being placed at the front lines of combat.
Frequently Asked
Questions about Women in Combat: Recent news reports about the
unprecedented roles of female soldiers serving in Iraq have generated many
inquiries about the issue of women in land combat. Should female soldiers
be assigned to units that engage in direct ground combat, and if not, why not?
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