Mark Helprin: Obama has crushed the US militarily

Obama DANGEROUS to AmericaI first became aware of this article via the Dennis Prager radio show.

His link to the audio is here.  Well worth your time.

First, the article you need to read in reference is here.

And this, without a doubt, is one of the most important articles I have read in over two years, or more.  Its reality is incontrovertible because Mr Helprin provides not just emotions but facts.

From the WSJ.com:

The Candidates Ignore Rising Military Dangers

by Mark Helprin

Obama is weakening U.S. defenses and credibility, but there’s little debate about the growing risk of war.

In this powerful nation with founding principles and latent capacities second to none, politics have become fit for the fall of Rome, the culture is sick with self-destruction, and the rule of law is routinely perverted. Though politics, culture and law are the arch of the nation, the keystone without which they cannot hold is defense. For war transforms whole peoples and threatens their sovereignty and national existence more decisively than any other force.

You would hardly know this from the current presidential campaign. Most candidates seem unaware that the prospects of catastrophic war in the not-so-distant future are burgeoning because of a fundamental change in the international system, driven by accelerating adjustments in relative military power.

Russia, China and Iran have been racing ahead, stimulated by a disintegrating Europe that neither spends sufficiently on its defense nor defends its borders; and by an America, strategically blind in the Middle East, that failed to replenish and keep current its military under President George W. Bush, and now surrenders, apologizes, bluffs, “leads from behind,” and denigrates its military capacities and morale as President Obama either embraces enemies or opposes them only with exquisite delicacy.

As the U.S. allows its nuclear forces to stagnate and decay into de facto unilateral disarmament, Russia has been modernizing its own. The Kremlin has added systems, such as road-mobile, intercontinental ballistic missiles with independently targetable re-entry warheads, that we neither have nor envision. In the absence of “soft-power” parity with the U.S., Russia dangerously relies on a permissive nuclear doctrine and promiscuously rattles its atomic sabers. Its nuclear adventurism, naval and land force modernization, unopposed reintroduction into the Middle East, invasion and annexation in Ukraine, and the ability to recapture the Baltic states in an afternoon, are yet another impeachment of “the end of history.”

Helprin gives us this very foundational and grim statistic regarding our military.

The U.S. 2015 base budget defense appropriation (excluding overseas contingency spending) was just less than 3%, as opposed to 5.7% in the peacetime years during the period 1940-2000.

Please read the article, and click on the audio link above.

Thank you, Mr Obama.

You destroyer of America.

BZ

 

Obama: REFUSING to allow social media screening for K1 visa applicants

San Bernardino Couple Islam

From, of all places, ABCNews.com:

Secret US Policy Blocks Agents From Looking at Social Media of Visa Applicants, Former Official Says

by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, James Gordon Meek & Josh Margolin

Fearing a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations” for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, according to a former senior department official.

“During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process,” John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.

Four dead in Benghazi.  Fourteen dead in San Bernardino.  And that policy is SECRET.  I wonder why that might be?

And Obama along with his Leftist Cabal couldn’t care less.  Anyone (except them) can readily be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.

There is NO Constitutional RIGHT to a visa of ANY KIND in the US.

Looking at the social media on Tashfeen Malik, I submit, may in fact have saved FOURTEEN people from being killed in San Bernardino.  All it would have taken are a few clicks into Google and entering brief information into some fields.

Tashfeen Malik “passed” three US background checks, yet embraced jihad on social media as documented by the UKDailyMail.com.

REVEALED: San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik openly supported violent jihad on social media yet still passed THREE background checks to gain entry into America

by Evan Bleier

 

  • Malik said she supported violent jihad and that she desired to take part in it

  • If officials found Malik’s messages, her visa likely would have been denied 

  • Screened by Homeland Security and State Department after entering US

  • Three national security and criminal background checks didn’t find posts

  • Malik and husband Syed Farook killed 14 people earlier this month after passing through customs in July 2014 and getting married the next month

This is not just a shame — considering the deaths of fourteen American citizens and twenty-two persons seriously injured — it is plotted and purposeful incompetence.  Information indicates that K1 visa applicants were not checked via social media.  It is not just abominable absurdity and purposeful incompetence.  It is from a Jeh Johnson memo.  It is the POLICY of the United States — because of a politically correct narrative embraced and promoted by Barack Hussein Obama.

Obama once AGAIN, as well as his administration — and Jeh Johnson — has AMERICAN Blood On HandsBLOOD on his HANDS.

NOT to check social media was POLICY.

Obama lies to Americans.

Americans DIE behind Mr Obama’s political correctness because he doesn’t wish to disturb, offend or inconvenience Muslim applicants.

ISIS USES SOCIAL MEDIA FOR RECRUITMENT.

Yet the US fails to — per its policy — and must NOT check social media to “vet” K1 visa applicants.

State Department records show that in 2014 the U.S. government issued nearly 10 million nonimmigrant visas, over 40,000 of which were K-1 fiancé visas like the one Malik used to enter the country.

And yet we think that Obama and this government has the slightest ability to “vet Syrians”?  Much less the actual inclination?

It’s not too terribly far from calls for torches and pitchforks, ladies and gentlemen.

Torches & Pitchforks SmallerBecause, trust me, more Americans can, must and will die due to Obama’s treasonous mission to diminish the power and position of the United States in the world.  Obama wills it.  Obamahu Akbar.

This is an abject abomination.

BZ

P.S.

Check out Powerline’s take on this.

Also check out Hot Air’s take as well.

 

From lame to idiotic to stupid: “Obama calls on bartenders to host happy hours for Obamacare”

Obama - Dangerously IncompetentJust when you think that Barack Hussein Obama can’t get any more idiotic or stupid or — now — dangerous, you have the above headline.

From the WashingtonExaminer.com:

by Charlie Spiering

During today’s White House Youth Summit, President Obama called on young people to do whatever they can to promote his signature health care law — including plying their customers with cheap booze.

“If you are a bartender, have a happy hour,” Obama said as the crowd laughed. “And also probably get health insurance because a lot of people don’t have it.”

Great.  Ply the youth with booze.  Fabulous idea.

Can you imagine had GW Bush suggested a fraction of these stupid proposals?

BZ