There are those who would say these must be the words of an authoritarian tyrant.
We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Barack Obama, July 2, 2008, Colorado Springs, CO.
Barack Obama has made an enormous error and squandered a magnificent opportunity. And perhaps we ought to be grateful.
As has been pointed out here frequently, Obama thinks of no one more highly than himself. Skook has referred to Obama as the Narcissist in Chief. Searching for “Obama ego” yields 17 million hits, such as:
Bin Laden’s role of a master mind of evil trying to bring down the US while living in a series of hi-tech caves was a masterful bit of propaganda that …
It’s amazing. We found Osama bin-Laden because of the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques authorized by the prior administration. Because of the captured terrorists imprisoned at Gitmo. Because of the intelligence agents who worked tirelessly, using all the techniques authorized by Bush, to find Osama.
And to this day Obama has discontinued placing prisoners in Gitmo, discontinued EIT’s, and is investigating the agents who got the information that allowed Obama to order the execution of Osama.
