Weak Presidents Equal Dead Americans
When America elects weak or perceived to be weak presidents the results are either direct or indirect attacks on Americans, American interests overseas or attacks on the homeland and America is about to elect the least qualified President in modern times.
The first major attack that changed the world came when Iranian fundamentalists realized that President Carter had thrown the Shah of Iran under the bus and left him high and dry. Not satisfied to just overthrow the Shah, they went further than Carter expected and seized the US Embassy changing American policies in the region for decades to come which included supporting Saddam Hussein and providing him with chemical weapons and financial support so he could defeat the Iranians.
President Clinton was the next weakest President to come along and almost immediately after watching President Clinton order the immediate withdrawal of US forces from Somalia in the wake of a perceived battle field loss now known as Black Hawk Down, Al Qaeda was formed and began attacking American interests in America (World Trade Center 1993, Saudi Arabia (Khobar Towers 1996, Africa (Kenya and Tanzania 1996, twin bombings of US Embassy’s) and the Middle East (Yemen 2000 attack on USS Cole) all of which resulted in 54 American dead, 1081 US wounded, 246 local nations dead and 4372 local nationals wounded. It’s clear today that President Clinton’s failure to respond aggressively motivated Osama Bin Laden to escalate and order the planning and training necessary to implement the attacks now commonly referred to as 9-11.
It should be noted that the planning and authorization of the plan and the implementation of the training program began before President Bush was even nominated by the Republican Party. The controversial election in 2000 and President Bush’s perceived lack of foreign policy experience ensured that the final attack plan would be approved in March 2001. What Bin Laden didn’t expect after 8 years of being ignored by the Clinton administration was the massive and overwhelming response. The fact that American interests have not been successfully attack in any meaningful way since September 11th 2001 is a testament to the changes in America’s posture and continued offensive actions around the world and proof positive that groups like Al Qaeda can only be dealt with by force of action and not words and rhetoric.
The polls are telling us that with 3 weeks to election-day Senator Barrack Obama is going to defeat Senator John McCain and become the least qualified American President in modern history in the middle of 2 major ongoing wars and an economic crisis at home. History tells us that our enemies will use this opportunity not to reward us with kindness but will at the first chance they get seek to attack us both at home and abroad.
While there are some very obvious threats awaiting the next President in the form of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the seemingly never ending on again off again North Korean nuclear program, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israel and the two rival Palestinian factions and a cranky Venezuela there are also several other major threats developing that the next President will surely have to deal with.
First we have a growing Asian giant in China, which is quickly becoming an economy powerhouse and is moving quickly throughout Africa to prop up dictators and elected dictators to secure oil and mineral resources needed to continue to grow at record paces all the while upgrading their militaries equipment and skill sets to a level that may soon be able to compete with the west.
Russia is awash with oil wealth and a new found sense of nationalism that seems to have invigorated the sleeping bear that was Russia in the late 90’s and first few years of the new millennium. Recently Russia began to assert itself by announcing military exercises with Cuba and Venezuela and the reequipping of Venezuelan military. They’re also poised to ink a deal Bolivia to upgrade their militaries hardware and provide trainers. Russia has been testing missiles and also selling large amounts of weapons and ammunition to African countries and former breakaway republics that are less than thrilled with the amount of time and effort democracy and the free market economy take.
Israel may be a wildcard that cannot be bought off with some Patriot missiles or Apache attack helicopters when Iran gets closer to having either a nuclear weapon and or a delivery system. The Israeli Air Force has already been training and rehearsing a preemptive strike similar in nature to the one launched in the early 80’s against the Iraqi’s to destroy a reactor and the recent strike against the Syrians to destroy a nuclear production facility.
With so much on our plate now and the potential for even more world instability in the coming years America needs to not only think long and hard about electing an inexperienced President but also an ideologue that believes that appeasement and negotiations will bring peace while recent history clearly tells us otherwise.
When America elects weak presidents American die, it’s that simple.
The first major attack that changed the world came when Iranian fundamentalists realized that President Carter had thrown the Shah of Iran under the bus and left him high and dry. Not satisfied to just overthrow the Shah, they went further than Carter expected and seized the US Embassy changing American policies in the region for decades to come which included supporting Saddam Hussein and providing him with chemical weapons and financial support so he could defeat the Iranians.
President Clinton was the next weakest President to come along and almost immediately after watching President Clinton order the immediate withdrawal of US forces from Somalia in the wake of a perceived battle field loss now known as Black Hawk Down, Al Qaeda was formed and began attacking American interests in America (World Trade Center 1993, Saudi Arabia (Khobar Towers 1996, Africa (Kenya and Tanzania 1996, twin bombings of US Embassy’s) and the Middle East (Yemen 2000 attack on USS Cole) all of which resulted in 54 American dead, 1081 US wounded, 246 local nations dead and 4372 local nationals wounded. It’s clear today that President Clinton’s failure to respond aggressively motivated Osama Bin Laden to escalate and order the planning and training necessary to implement the attacks now commonly referred to as 9-11.
It should be noted that the planning and authorization of the plan and the implementation of the training program began before President Bush was even nominated by the Republican Party. The controversial election in 2000 and President Bush’s perceived lack of foreign policy experience ensured that the final attack plan would be approved in March 2001. What Bin Laden didn’t expect after 8 years of being ignored by the Clinton administration was the massive and overwhelming response. The fact that American interests have not been successfully attack in any meaningful way since September 11th 2001 is a testament to the changes in America’s posture and continued offensive actions around the world and proof positive that groups like Al Qaeda can only be dealt with by force of action and not words and rhetoric.
The polls are telling us that with 3 weeks to election-day Senator Barrack Obama is going to defeat Senator John McCain and become the least qualified American President in modern history in the middle of 2 major ongoing wars and an economic crisis at home. History tells us that our enemies will use this opportunity not to reward us with kindness but will at the first chance they get seek to attack us both at home and abroad.
While there are some very obvious threats awaiting the next President in the form of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the seemingly never ending on again off again North Korean nuclear program, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israel and the two rival Palestinian factions and a cranky Venezuela there are also several other major threats developing that the next President will surely have to deal with.
First we have a growing Asian giant in China, which is quickly becoming an economy powerhouse and is moving quickly throughout Africa to prop up dictators and elected dictators to secure oil and mineral resources needed to continue to grow at record paces all the while upgrading their militaries equipment and skill sets to a level that may soon be able to compete with the west.
Russia is awash with oil wealth and a new found sense of nationalism that seems to have invigorated the sleeping bear that was Russia in the late 90’s and first few years of the new millennium. Recently Russia began to assert itself by announcing military exercises with Cuba and Venezuela and the reequipping of Venezuelan military. They’re also poised to ink a deal Bolivia to upgrade their militaries hardware and provide trainers. Russia has been testing missiles and also selling large amounts of weapons and ammunition to African countries and former breakaway republics that are less than thrilled with the amount of time and effort democracy and the free market economy take.
Israel may be a wildcard that cannot be bought off with some Patriot missiles or Apache attack helicopters when Iran gets closer to having either a nuclear weapon and or a delivery system. The Israeli Air Force has already been training and rehearsing a preemptive strike similar in nature to the one launched in the early 80’s against the Iraqi’s to destroy a reactor and the recent strike against the Syrians to destroy a nuclear production facility.
With so much on our plate now and the potential for even more world instability in the coming years America needs to not only think long and hard about electing an inexperienced President but also an ideologue that believes that appeasement and negotiations will bring peace while recent history clearly tells us otherwise.
When America elects weak presidents American die, it’s that simple.
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