Several really unbelievable issues over the past couple of days solidify the fact that the President and his advisers are in denial or, at the very least, are not acting in the best interests of America when it comes to dealing with our national defense. These strategies and responses are not comforting.
National Prayer Breakfast
First, at the prayer breakfast on February 5th, in response to the recent acts by ISIS, the President included the following:
"Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."
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I cannot tell what message the President was intending to share, but, to me, he is saying that these barbaric acts are not really new, and, therefore, are not worthy of a response.
Secretary of Defense Senate Confirmation Hearing
Second, at a Senate confirmation hearing on February 5th, Secretary of Defense nominee Ashton Carter, in response to a request to articulate our strategy to towards ISIS, stated that we need to "have a lasting defeat" without addressing how this would be accomplished.
Secretary of Defense Senate Confirmation Hearing
Second, at a Senate confirmation hearing on February 5th, Secretary of Defense nominee Ashton Carter, in response to a request to articulate our strategy to towards ISIS, stated that we need to "have a lasting defeat" without addressing how this would be accomplished.
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National Defense Strategy
Third, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, in a speech to the Brookings Institution on Friday, February 6th, discussed our national defense strategy, a first since 2010. She included an increased focus on boosting cybersecurity, combating climate change and promoting gay rights around the world among our most important national security issues, with no major shifts in the military campaign against Islamic State militants or in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Our policy was described as "strategic patience."
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Listening to the speech, if I did not know better, I would think that there are no real threats out there, that the administration has everything under control. It sounded more like a campaign rally speech than our national defense strategy.
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