Obama = Weak UPDATED

September 17, 2009 / 9:43 am • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

President Obama signaled to the world that dictatorial regimes have carte blanc while struggling Democracies will be left to defend themselves. Today, on the 70th anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Poland, the President announced that there will be no defense shield in Europe. Poland, Europe, is on their own.

Russia is the same. It’s the United States that has changed. Well, that’s what President Obama promised, but it’s not good changes that he’s delivering.

Meanwhile, Venezuela signs agreements with China while building up militarily. And China is building up too:

“In fact, when considering the military-modernization programs of countries like China, we should be concerned less with their potential ability to challenge the US symmetrically — fighter to fighter or ship to ship — and more with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options,” Gates said in a speech to the Air Force Association.

“Investments in cyber and anti-satellite warfare, anti-air and anti-ship weaponry, and ballistic missiles could threaten America’s primary way to project power and help allies in the Pacific — in particular our forward air bases and carrier strike groups,” Gates said in National Harbor, Maryland.

The new threats meant long-range military aircraft would take on greater importance as the latest weaponry would “degrade the effectiveness of short-range fighters and put more of a premium on being able to strike from over the horizon — whatever form that capability might take,” he said.

Defense analysts have warned that the US military will soon lose its dominance on the high seas, in space and in cyberspace as China and other emerging powers obtain sophisticated weaponry and missiles.

Whether it is sending the wrong message to Iran, abandoning Honduras, abandoning Poland, putting tariffs on Chinese goods, or all the rest of it, President Obama signals weakness around the world.

And he wants to increase debt with health care at the time when America is drowning in debt. What happens when those debts are called in?

Why do Democrats like projecting and being weak on the world stage while dominating and enslaving average Americans with oppressive taxation? It’s like they don’t recognize an enemy when they see one.

UPDATED:

Kim Priestap has a must-read piece. She also says:

I believe Obama’s decision to abandon the missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republican is nearly as bad as Carter’s decision to abandon the Shah of Iran. Radical Islam grew as a result of Carter’s decision. A new Soviet style Putinian Russia will grow as a result of Obama’s decision.

Bookworm calls President Obama a “very bad man“:

“He’s a bad man. He’s a very, very bad man.”

That’s all I could think of when I read that today, on the 70th Anniversary of Poland’s invasion by the Nazis, Barack Obama made the decision to leave Poland and the Czech Republic vulnerable to Putin’s tender ministrations. The former Soviet Union may be in demographic decline, but that clearly hasn’t stopped Putin’s dreams of grandeur — and what better way to use up former military stock, regain your former imperial glory, and augment your dying population, than by engaging in a little empire building. Nor do I buy Obama’s claim that he’s just replacing a standing defense system with something more “agile.”

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  • http://nomoremister.blogspot.com Steve M.

    So you typed “Obama = Weak” because typing “Obama Is Weak” would have taken too long?

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  • Paul Gordon

    Shortly after Obama’s election, I posted this comment on many blogs…
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    On Election Day, the Ace of Spades website posted a picture of two Iraqi women, with purple-stained fingers showing they had voted in an election.

    It was a “Get Out The Vote” message, noting that whatever inconveniences YOU may experience by voting, “These women literally risked their lives to vote“.

    My first reaction was, “And THE ONE can hardly wait to sell them out“.

    Obama’s rhetoric on Iraq, and comments about Israel, showed a casual willingness to sell out allies when convenient.

    A commenter asked, “Who appointed us to be their guardians? Why is it America’s job to make sure they are safe?”

    Perhaps we’d rather not have the entire world as a nuclear-armed camp, figuring that the more countries with these things, the more risk that some will eventually be used.

    Our alliances with these countries ain’t out of the goodness of our heart, but for our own best interests. Sell one out, and I’ll bet you the others will sure take notice.

    The commenter seemed to be saying, “To hell with them; let them take care of themselves!”

    Ok! But, they might do exactly that, and we might be less than thrilled with the results.

    If countries under threat (Taiwan, South Korea, Japan) think that our word is no longer any good, they’ll almost certainly feel the need for nuclear arms as the only real deterrent to someone like China. And note, those countries ALL have the necessary economic, industrial and technical wherewithal to go nuclear. All they need do is make the decision.

    Others, in the Middle East, will want them to deter Iran. How about Saudi Arabia and Egypt? Maybe Libya decides that abandoning their efforts was a mistake. THOSE countries may lack the technology, but they can certainly afford to finance it.

    It could just go on and on.

    THAT could be a very likely consequence of us deciding to just disengage ourselves from these countries.

    We’ve tried, for a long time, to convince others that they didn’t need them, because WE would provide the nuclear umbrella.

    When they figure they can’t count on us, the whole thing unravels.

    If the commenter gets his wish, and they DO take care of themselves, it could get real interesting for us as well.

    As we also reside on the same planet, I think it almost impossible we would remain unaffected.

    So, standing up for our allies is not just a nice thing to do; it makes the hardest kind of common sense.

    Simply put, we protect others in order to protect ourselves.

    Abandoning them, selling them out, would be an unbelievably short-sighted (as in STUPID) thing to do, and would hurt us more in the long run. No one would trust an agreement with us; and why should they, given such a record?

    Instead of being worth a damn, our word would only be noise.

    And that would be tragic, because WE set its’ value, by our actions.
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    Sadly, I see absolutely nothing in that comment that needs amending.

    :(

  • fuster

    Gosh, this is stupid. We aren’t going to build an anti-missile defense system that doesn’t work and was supposed to intercept ICBMs coming from Iran.
    And Melissa parrots the ridiculous idea that it’s an abandonment of Poland.
    Exactly what harm has been done to Poland?
    Did they lose rent money?
    If they did, it didn’t bother them much as an opinion poll found only 31%
    saying that it was a bad thing for Poland not to have the base, while 48% were glad it won’t be built.