Category Archives: Obama and American Security

The Generals and the Community Organizer

Here is Paul Hollrah’s analysis of why Gen. McChrystal granted access to the Rolling Stone reporter. I don’t know what Gen. McChrystal will do once he retires, but let us hope he challenges the community organizer. One negative element in all of this is that Gen. Petraeus took over from Gen. McChrystal. We want Gen. …

July 3, 2010 – 10:59 am | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in Obama and American Security, Obama and the military | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Well, We Actually Do Know the Reason Obama Is Soft on Jihadists

A great editorial in today’s Washington Times.  The reason that Obama is soft on jihadism is not because he is a secret Muslim, but because he is a Leftist. The Left wants to minimize the threat to America from jihadists. Attention to this threat might upset their larger goal of fundamentally transforming the United States. …

April 8, 2010 – 10:47 am | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in Obama and American Security, Obama and Terrorism, Obama vs. America | Comments (0)

Obama and Nuclear Weapons

Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review is a disaster. It is a policy document that is completely at odds with reality, and places the United States and its allies in a position where the United States must abandon its extended deterrent commitments. Some of its biggest problems: The Obama NPR does not modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal, …

April 7, 2010 – 1:28 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear Weapons, Obama and American Security | Comments (0)

Obama Recognizes the War on Terror

It took a year of struggling against reality, but it finally happened. He worked hard, fighting against the truth, but discovered that facts are stubborn things. Obama announced yesterday that the United States is in a war on terror. That is progress. But it won’t last. There are two narratives in this struggle, which is …

January 8, 2010 – 3:25 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in Obama and American Security, Obama and socialism, Obama and the War on Terror, Obama vs. America | Tagged | Comments (0)

Obama and American Security: Thesis and Antithesis

It is now clear that the Obama administration had ample warning of the Christmas Day terror attack on Northwest 253.  They flubbed it.  The media are not holding them to account.  Some readers will recall how the Bush administration and Condi Rice, in particular, was dragged through the coals over a Presidential Daily Brief notice …

January 5, 2010 – 11:00 pm | By BenjaminFranklin | Posted in 9/11 attacks, Obama and American Security | Comments (0)