"Less Is Not More; Weak Is Not Strong!"

What is the most dangerous weight class in boxing? Obviously, it is the heavyweight division, where the “big boys” battle! Whenever a boxer moves up in class, they must face a bigger man than they have faced in the past. Many years ago, a light-heavyweight named Billy Conn fought Joe Louis for Joe’s Heavyweight Title. Conn was the consummate boxer, fast and powerful; but much smaller than the “Brown Bomber” giving away more than 25 pounds. Conn actually knocked Joe down before Joe lowered the boom and kayoed Billy. Without many exceptions, the smaller opponent will fall to the larger and more powerful one.

Our armed forces consist of approximately 500,000 full time soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines: of this number, only about 90,000 are what we can consider combat troops; soldiers and marines who are the “tip of the spear”, so to speak. In our last, most recent conflicts, we have used our National Guard and Army and Marine reservists as our ground troops. They have made up a great number of our combat operations. Each time a reserve or National Guard unit is called up, there is, what you might call “lag time”, as these “citizen soldiers” get “refresher courses” in being a full time trooper. Cooks, clerks and mechanics can adapt fairly easily when they are called to duty; but a combat infantryman has to catch up in a hurry, and it’s not cooking or filing; it is life or death. In case of an immediate emergency situation, we would really be strapped for a large “combat ready” ground force to engage a larger, more formidable opponent.

The United States funds 22% of the United Nations’ costs. This is a huge amount of money for a fairly useless organization. Barack Obama has announced that he intends to reduce our Defense budget by “trimming our military”. As a former soldier, I find Mr. Obama’s idea as ludicrous; he has no idea of what a military operation consists of, and how important a strong standing army is to maintain our national security.

If America needs to trim fat from our budget, why not trim some of that aid to the United Nations or foreign aid to nations that have voiced opposition to United States policies. This represents hundreds of millions of our tax dollars spent on organizations and nations that have little to do with the security of the people of the United States of America.

Obama says we will be “leaner”, “more flexible” and “more ready for contingencies” with a smaller armed force. This is extremely foolish thinking! How can reducing our defense forces make us more secure? This is the price we are paying for putting a man in the White House who is a weak appeaser that is willing to kneel before other nations in the hope they will “take it easy on us”. Reduction of defense spending can be a very popular idea; especially to Iran, Korea and any terrorist organization against the United States! Mr. and Mrs. America, is this who you want protecting our shores: remember this next November: SMALLER IS NOT STRONGER!!