THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XI, Issue # 99, April 8, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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CONSEQUENCES OF AN "AMERICAN IDOL" PRESIDENCY
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & ITS DANGEROUS COURSE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S DISGRACEFUL
& EMBARASSING PANDERING TO AMERICA'S ENEMIES & FAIRWEATHER FRIENDS ABROAD -- OBAMA UNDERMINING
AMERICA'S PRESTIGE AMONG THE SOVEREIGN STATES OF THE WORLD -- OBAMA WEAKENING THE U.S.A. AS A DETERRENT
TO AGGRESSION ON THE PART OF RUTHLESS FOREIGN DICTATORSHIPS -- OBAMA UNDERMINING AMERICAN NATIONAL
SECURITY -- OBAMA ENCOURAGING A REPEAT OF THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A.
FULL STORY:
During the 1990s, few among the general public noticed, as America’s
intelligence apparatus was methodically undermined and dismantled by such
officials of the Bill Clinton administration as Deputy Attorney General
Jamie Gorelick. During the same period, Clinton Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary
was busy obliterating color-coded security badges at the Los Alamos
nuclear lab in New Mexico, and taking other outrageous measures that
compromised America’s vital technology for the sake of “political
correctness.” Consequently, America’s missile and nuclear technology
hemorrhaged to the Communist Chinese.
To people like O’Leary, America’s security and nuclear secrets were only of
secondary consequence, if even that. She believed that the differing
security classifications would be injurious to the sensibilities of those
employees with lesser security clearances. So she scrapped the system in
preference to a single-color badge that did not identify the clearance level
of its bearer. During this time, vital design plans of the W-88, America’s
most sophisticated nuclear warhead, were leaked to China.
Meanwhile, Clinton crony Bernard Schwarz, of Loral Space Systems, was
“legally” divulging rocket technology to the Chinese. Thus he ensured that,
if they intended to, they could build missiles capable of delivering those
improved warheads to American soil. Bill Clinton defended the actions of
Schwarz in ludicrous terms, claiming bogusly that the information would be
utilized by the Chinese for “peaceful” purposes, such as the development of
space launch vehicles.
Of course, Clinton and his minions knew full well that this response was
fraudulent to its core, and was only intended to placate media lapdogs who
did not want the episode to look bad on the evening news. The answer might
have assuaged the perennially ignorant, but every engineer with even an
elementary grasp of rocketry knows that the technology necessary to put a
satellite into orbit is identical to that needed to lob a warhead onto the
next continent. Only the targeting information of the missile is different.
In fact, up until the development of the Saturn series of moon rockets,
every major launch vehicle in America’s space fleet was an ICBM, modified to
only the slightest degree. Yet, on such a flimsy basis, America taught
Communist China how to construct functional ballistic missiles by which they
may someday wage nuclear war against us.
It is telling that, in the upheaval following North Korea’s launch of its
own ballistic missile during this past weekend, dictator Kim Jong-Il
attempted to defuse the provocative action by offering the identical claim,
that the missile test was only intended to launch a satellite into orbit.
Forget his past zeal to develop a functional nuclear bomb, or the
possibility that he may, in fact, have succeeded in testing such a device. His
reassurances of “peaceful” intentions should be sufficient to allay our
fears until the other shoe (or something far worse) drops.
Worse yet, Kim’s transparent ploy may succeed. The toothless response to his
action by the rest of the world, and, in particular, the United States, sends
an undeniable signal to him, along with every other aspiring tinhorn
dictator on the planet, that the great nation-states of the past order no
longer possess the will to take real corrective action. And, with Barack Hussein
Obama’s disgraceful and embarrassing pandering to the Europeans and Muslims
during his G-20 visit, he has made it clear that this nation no longer
possesses its former resolve to prevent proliferation and aggression by such
regimes. On the contrary, Obama publicly offered his regrets for decisive
past actions that deterred and prevented the ascendancy of many dangerous
aspiring tyrants during the past century.
According to the press, collegiality and even love now abounds among nations
that excoriated the United States and its former President, George W. Bush,
only months ago. In wonderful contrast, they extol America for its openness
and professed willingness to sit down and talk with adversaries. At least
that is the picture that Obama’s Leftist cohorts want the general public to
receive. Unfortunately, the truth is far less rosy. And the likelihood of a
day of reckoning for all of this foolishness is far greater.
Despite media coverage that portrays Obama’s European visit as a resounding
success, he was unable to garner any significant European commitment to the
Afghanistan theater of the terror war. Empty words from the European leaders
should apparently be a sufficient response to empty words from the Chief-of-State of
a watered-down America.
In a manner reminiscent of the humiliations of the Carter years, America’s
prestige has begun to plummet among the world community. Of course, world
leaders are quick to express their preference for the current situation. A
diminished America represents less competition, both economically and
diplomatically, to their own aims and aspirations.
Sadly, this situation is being heralded by the Obama administration and the
Liberal media as a great gain for this nation. It is anything but. In a
world of inherently hostile, and often barbaric, entities that are constantly
vying for power, American vulnerability is entirely likely to be perceived
as a window of opportunity for those who would raise their own international
standing by tearing this nation down, just as was the case among the
militant Islamists during the last decade, culminating in the attacks of
September 11, 2001.
Governing cannot be indefinitely conducted from a mindset that ignores
ramifications and consequences. Though the backlash may not be immediate, in
the face of a unilateral disarmament, and the substitution of resolve with
passivity, it is inevitable. The Obama administration, in its current
governing and diplomatic mode, is reverting to a mentality that is even more
myopic and dangerously shortsighted than that of the Clinton years. Obama’s
sycophancy towards European Leftists and Middle Eastern Muslims during his
recent trip abroad cannot be construed as anything else.
The blindly idealistic intrigues of the Clinton administration played well
on the nightly news, at least until their awful consequences became
apparent. Not having learned the painful lesson, America has embarked on
that path once again.
Barack Obama and his fellow ideologues believe their Ivy League
intellectualism is sufficient to build a bridge to the Seventh Century. But,
to the practitioners of a religion that only understands strength and force,
this manner of pandering only represents weakness. As such, it is essentially
entreating the world for a repeat of the attacks on America.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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U.S. National Security Strategy
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
Europe, Europeans, & American Foreign Policy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer and staff writer for the New
Media Alliance. He lives in southeastern Wyoming. He has been active in
local and state politics for many years and is a managing partner in Best
American Buy (www.bestamericanbuy.com), an e-commerce business that markets
products exclusively made in America. His contact information and archives
can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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