A Rudderless Superpower

The Obama Administration’s seeming indifference to the threats confronting the U.S. is very worrisome.  Russian irredentism, Red China’s growing military assertiveness, Iran’s unstoppable quest for nuclear weapons, North Korea’s saber rattling, and terrorist activities around the globe all potentially harm American national interests.  Perhaps the most visible symbolic illustration of Obama’s flaccidity in the midst of multiple threats to America was his appearance on national TV to announce his picks for the aptly named “March Madness,” a.k.a. the NCAA’s national basketball tournament.

This occurs in the midst of the Obama Administration’s plans to gut U.S. armed forces, reducing America’s military strength to the point where even Obama’s defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, admits our military personnel face greater risks than at any time before World War II.  The Obamians are also waging economic warfare on the country’s military personnel, veterans, and their families.  Add to all this Obama’s severe reduction of America’s nuclear stockpiles, cancelling key missile programs, ending our manned space program, and plans to surrender U.S. control of the vitally important Internet communication system, and one can only conclude that we are seeing the decline and fall of America as a global superpower.

Incompetence – if that’s what it is – or worse manifested by Obama and his administration is bad, but American failure to respond effectively to threats against the country’s interests is made even more serious by the reactions of most of the nation’s ruling class (especially left-wing Democrats, but even some Republicans), the mainstream media (MSM), and large slices of the citizenry. 

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