Posted by
John Kuethe on Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:58:29 AM
There were many valid criticisms of the Bush administration, particularly when it came to the way they grew government and spent money. One think nobody could ever accuse the Bush administration of was showing weakness. In fact, while President Bush was commander in chief, the United States was known as a force to be reckoned with. Sadly, President Obama has not conveyed any semblance of strength. In fact, some would say that the Obama administration is conveying weakness and there are countries in the world who have noticed.
First, we have had Hillary Clinton’s world tour, in the wake of which, we see Norht Korea and China rattling their sabers. President Obama has committed cast amounts of money to the Palestinians for rebuilding; the Palestinian government is the terrorist organization Hamas. Next we have our fearless leader openly saying he wants to reach out to the Taliban to sit and talk things out. This is a terrorist organization that our troops a re currently fighting in Afghanistan. The fact that radical Islam believes they are duty bound to lie to “infidels” does not seem to play into the President’s thinking.
What is the net result of all of these displays of weakness following the Bush administration’s 8 year track record of military strength? There is a pending agreement between Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela to allow the Russians to base their bombers on the door step of the United States. Why not, they see that President Obama does not have the stomach to stand up to anyone:
Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday.
"This is possible in Cuba," General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air force's strategic aviation staff, told the Interfax-AVN military news agency.
The comments were the latest signal that Moscow intends to project its military capability in far-flung corners of the globe despite a tight defence budget and hardware that experts consider in many respects outdated. Brietbart.com