I know from the army, if someone is weak, he’s weak. He should go out of the way. Since Obama became President he wanted to teach us about the strategy of a huge country like the United States of America. Russia is militarily weaker today, than it has been before. It wants to grab all it can, to gain more power. We know that Putin is a KGB man. Those people gamble.
Obama knows this well, but he already showed Putin our weakness before, by giving up many strategic positions such as the missile defense system in Europe and in other places.
After WWII’s German invasion, we cannot let anyone so easily scare the European countries or anyone else, while we are standing aside doing nothing. It’s not a question of moving troops, for now, but to stay firm and do some maneuvers in Poland and the Czech Republic, and move an airplane carrier into a strategic position. By doing nothing we attract weakness and trouble. We have already been too silent about Iran.
Mr. President, it is never late to right a wrong. We have enough generals in the Pentagon, who could advise you. They will tell you that despite your plans to reduce the size of our defense system, the US is militarily still the strongest nation. Maybe you will reconsider your decision and not reduce the power of the US defense.
Copyright Emile Tubiana
Pentagon generals are all concerned about building the military and military options. The president will take their advice, but never use the military-industrial complex as the driver it was during the Cold War. No one wants the military running the country's policy. That's why the president is made commander-in-chief.
United States can rally quickly in a major threat. There is currently no major threat to the United States anywhere in the world. As the president has said, we can "absorb" terrorism on the order of 9/11 without going to war. Terroristic threats and acts are not anything like World War II. Time to move into the 21st century and work on the economy of the entire world, not narrow parochial interests like Israel's problems and a president you don't like.
Ron
Love ya!
Jane