One For the Gipper

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Published on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:44

Ronald Reagan, one of the greatest Presidents in history, said “Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”

This is a completely different view from our current Commander in Chief, President Barak Obama. President Obama is making severe cuts in our military forces, during a time when there is an escalating crisis in the Middle East. There are terrorist across the world that are currently pursuing nuclear weapons for one purpose only – to eliminate the United States of America and the nation of Israel.

President Reagan knew that peace came through strength. During his time as President, Reagan built the military to one of the strongest in history. And now we have a President that has adopted a military policy based on being nice. If we just say “pretty please” then our enemies will certainly leave us alone – right? Well if you believe that then I have some ocean front property in Colorado to sell you.

After the current military cuts are taken, we will have reduced every branch of our military. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said, “this is a lead from behind strategy for a left-behind America. The President has packaged our retreat from the world in the guise of a new strategy to mask his divestment of our military and national defense. This strategy ensures American decline in exchange for more failed domestic programs. In order to justify massive cuts to our military, he has revoked the guarantee that America will support our allies, defend our interests, and defy our opponents. The President must understand that the world has always had, and will always have a leader. As America steps back, someone else will step forward.”

Even Leon Panetta, Obama’s Secretary of Defense, said that, “the cuts in defense proposed by President Barack Obama will create ‘risks’ in America's ‘capability to respond’ to threats.” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, echoed Panetta’s assessment, while pointing out that when the administration's cuts in defense are implemented there will be risk that the U.S. military will not be able to do as much as quickly as it can do now. So what do we do? The best thing for all Americans will be to replace President Obama with someone who is proud to be an American, someone who will not apologize for our exceptionalism, but embrace it as a reality. That is true “change we can believe in” but will only happen if people get involved. Consider what you can do to help change the course of the greatest country on earth – then DO IT!