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The Commander in Chief’s Lack of Military Awareness
Shoshana Bryen / American Thinker
Israelis should be pleased that President Obama offered Hamas no comfort in his press conference in Thailand. “There’s no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. We are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself. Israel has every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory.”
But Americans should be concerned that their commander in chief so profoundly misunderstands what soldiers do and why they do it. President Obama suggested a Hamas-Israel ceasefire in part to protect Israeli troops. “Its not just preferable for the people of Gaza; it’s also preferable for Israelis, because if Israeli troops are in Gaza, they are much more at risk of incurring fatalities or being wounded.”
The point of being a soldier is not not to be wounded. The point and the seriousness of a soldier’s commitment are to be prepared to do battle, to be wounded — in fact, to die to protect your citizens, your homeland, and your way of life. We, as Americans, have drifted away from the concept in recent years as we use the military less as a blunt instrument and more as an adjunct to political activity. President Obama called Afghanistan a war of necessity, sending tens of thousands of American men and women tens of thousands of miles on the grounds that they are protecting American citizens in Des Moines and Santa Barbara until the day he takes them out. The link between their presence and our security is tenuous.
The link between the Israel Defense Forces and the defense of the people of Israel is not tenuous.
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When did the Right-Wing get to profoundly out of touch with reality? Or is it just willful blindness to facts? Stupid, stupid, stupid is as stupid does. They deserve Romney to be their President. Republicans get us into unnecessary wars and the Democrats have to get us extracted from them, time and time again. And the Dems have to raise our taxes to pay for the Republican warring adventures that draw down the national treasury with every Administration. It’s treasonous what the Republicans have done with our Republic.
dem or rep, both are the same, neither of them respect their oaths of office and are focused on filling their pockets with as much as they can. Truth has no home in either party! two sides of the same coin.
skyguy66 needs to do a little reading about Democrats and their warmongering. Are you really that misinformed or just a hyperpartisan nitwit?
WHAT HE REALLY LACKS IS A B.C.
he has to appease the Zionist’s ,thats what america does..thats who runs this country…come on.