Putin Doesn’t Threaten Our National Security, Obama Does
Don
Feder
Vladimir Putin isn’t the Easter
Bunny. On the other hand, he isn’t Joseph Stalin. It takes a truly fevered
imagination to see Russian forces in the Crimea as a prelude to Russian tanks
rolling across Europe toward Berlin and Paris.
Putin is a power player who cares
more about Russia’s national interests, and Russian minorities in his near
abroad, than in that mythical force known as world opinion. Would that America
had a president who cared more about our interests than in promoting globalism
and the left’s social agenda.
The Crimea’s population is 60%
ethnic Russian. For most of the past 800 years, the Ukraine has been Russian.
An independent Ukraine disappeared
in the 12th century. It reappeared briefly after the Bolshevik Revolution, only
to be crushed by the Red Army and not emerge again until the fall of the Soviet
Union. All of this fuss about the “territorial integrity” of a state born
yesterday.
The Russian-backed government in
Kiev came to power democratically, but was ousted by the Maidan mob. We’re told
that the interim government is pro-Western and pro-EU.
When Reagan was president, the
expression pro-Western meant something. It meant pro-representative government,
pro-human rights and pro-Western (Judeo-Christian) values.
Today, it means a willingness to
accept same-sex “marriage,” abortion on demand, an anti-religion ethos – the
agenda of the EU’s cultural commissars -- and the economic dictates of
the Brussels bureaucracy.
Putin doesn’t want to see the EU --
and, possibly, NATO --- on his doorstep. Do you blame him? If someone overthrew
a democratically elected, pro-American government in Ottawa and replaced it
with an interim regime hostile to our interests, that contained neo-Nazi elements
and which immediately moved against English-speaking Canadians, it would
irritate us too. It would, that is, if there was an American in the White
House.
But don’t I care about a possible
Russian annexation of the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine (with its
Russian-oriented, Orthodox population), conservatives who are still fighting
the Cold War ask me? Not really. I’ll tell you what does concern me:
Obama’s
hollowing out of our military -- Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel announced plans to slash the army’s active-duty personnel by at
least another 70,000. Some support aircraft and cruisers are also slated for
mothballs. The Marine Corps will lose 8,000 of the few/the proud. In 2013,
defense spending was 4% of GDP -- taking us to pre-Pearl Harbor levels. The president
doesn’t think we need a military, just a marker for drawing red lines.
Obama’s
life style-friendly military -- If Putin doesn’t
take us seriously, is it any wonder? The headline in the March 2 Stars and Stripes
beams: “Gay, lesbian troops perform in drag at Kadena Air Base” in Okinawa. The
publication disclosed that the drag show was “in support of lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgendered troops.” Doubtless, this will do much for the morale
of the non-LGBT troops. But as then-Army Chief of Staff George W. Casey, Jr.
said at the time of the Ft. Hood massacre (which the administration still
refuses to call a terrorist incident), diversity is the New Action Army’s most
important product. Perhaps we could deploy an elite unit, armed with vibrators,
to the Crimea to counter Spetsnaz commandos.
Muslims
in the Obama White House -- including Arif
Alikhan (Deputy Executive Director for Policy in DHS), Mohamed Elibiary
(Homeland Security Advisory Council), Rashad Hussain (Special Envoy to the
deeply anti-Semitic Organization of the Islamic Conference), Imam Mohamed
Magid (Obama’s Sharia Law advisor, on loan from the Islamic Society of
North America, with its Brotherhood ties) and Eboo Patel (on the Advisory
Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships). A Muslim who takes his
religion seriously must put loyalty to Dar al-Islam above allegiance to an
infidel state.
The
suicide pact Obama and Kerry are determined to force on Israel
-- Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu arrived in the U.S. Monday to the
administration’s threats. If Israel doesn’t participate in a negotiated
surrender (leading to Jihadistan on its borders), Washington won’t be able to
contain the “international fallout,” the White House warned. Unlike the
Ukraine, Israel’s territorial integrity is in our national interest, as our
only friend in a region with a lot of people determined to destroy us.
Obama’s
metastasizing autocracy -- We fret about
democracy in the Ukraine while Obama treats the Constitution as a series of
suggestions. For the president, the three branches of government are him, his
pen and his telephone.
Putin is a strong man. Obama is a
weak man (except when it comes to bullying our allies). Obama venerates
multilateralism. Putin is willing to go it alone. Obama is committed to the
entire LGBT agenda (including gay “marriage”). He’s also the only sitting
president to address Planned Parenthood, such is his commitment to abortion
without borders. Putin believes the foregoing is the road to national
annihilation.
Where does the threat to America
lie?
Don
Feder
is a former syndicated columnist, consultant and writer.
Source:
American
Thinker
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