" Peace Through Strength?"

Barack Obama made a surprise visit to the troops in Afghanistan over the weekend as some window dressing to bolster his fading polls. I find it interesting that now he wants to show troop support after the endless months it took for him to send additional troops to permit the ground commanders to pursue victory in a timely manner. A dove at heart Obama isn't fooling this old soldier with his phony publicity agent appearance. I wish I could read the minds of those ground troops as they stood around listening to Obama's feigned enthusiasm. Those of you who buy into this "showboating" by Obama need to examine the last fourteen months of Mr.Obama's term in office.

In Eastern Europe he has neutered our defense systems, effectively leaving our allies hanging out to dry. He has gone on a world apology tour kneeling in front of the entire world saying how sorry we were for our nation defending itself in the face of radical Muslim attack, and we would definitely check with everybody else before we defend American citizens again.

Obama has done virtually nothing about the situations in Korea and Iran other than make noises about sanctions that do nothing but elicit amusement from our enemies. He has taken our only legitimate allie, Israel, and treated her with an attitude of disdain and insult. While Israel builds homes, Iran enriches uranium for nuclear weapons; yet Israel is called on the carpet by the "court jester" Biden.

Nothing has been done since late last year about Iran's quest for nuclear weapons. Two bills have been shelved which called for severe sanctions against Iran. Both bills have been stone-walled by the house and senate democrats at the behest of the Obama administration. We must ask ourselves what would the motivation be to delay sanctions against a rogue nation that poses an immediate threat to our most staunch supporter in a turbulent middle east?

The Russians and the Red Chinese have already said they were cool toward sanctions against the Iranian aggressor. Where does this put Barack Obama? We have been weakened to the point of now having to submit to the will of other nations in our foreign policies. We now have fewer nuclear weapons then Russia, we have dismantled much of our Eastern European defense shield; and we are now reticent about sanctions against a lunatic radical.

"Peace through strength" were words used by Ronald Reagan, they seem to have been forgotten by the current administration. This type of weakness must be considered before the next election. As Americans can we continue along this road of submission to other powers? What will be the outcome of this type of diplomacy? We can't afford four more years of Barack Obama. We don't need America castrated!