Obama's Policy of Appeasement

By announcing his intention to remove words such as "Islamic extremism" and "Jihad" from the central document outlining U.S. national security strategy Obama has produced yet another vomit inducing policy that weakens our ability to win the war against the relentless march of Islamic totalitarianism. 

Indeed, in spite of his rhetoric to the contrary, it demonstrates that Obama has no intention of fighting that war let alone winning it. It takes a high place on the altar of counter-productive measures taken by Obama which constitute his administration's " National Security Hall of Shame". These include, but are not limited to, reading captured terrorists Miranda rights, renaming the "War on Terror" as a "Global Overseas Contingency Operation", closing Guantanamo, attempting to try KSM and his chums in a civil court in New York, using major international forums to criticize and apologize for America, cancelling strategic missile deployments in Poland, taking a sledge hammer to the vital strategic alliance the United States has with Israel, and most shockingly announcing that the United States will not retaliate with nuclear weapons against an enemy that inflicts a biological or chemical attack upon America. In every instance he has telegraphed his lack of resolve to our enemies who have long since taken his measure and who are making their plans confident that Obama will only rattle America's saber but never cast aside its scabbard. They must be positively apoplectic with glee.

The idea that our enemy is limited to a few crazy isolated individuals like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein is a fatal mistake. Obama is not alone in trying to make us believe that no truly Islamic movement can be responsible for terrorism because "Islam is peace" and that a few nut jobs have hijacked a so-called "great religion". The reluctance, or inability, of our leaders to identify the real nature of the threat brings us closer and closer to defeat with each day that passes. Yet they know full well that Iran and Syria are active state sponsors of terrorism, they know that Iran is aggressively pursuing her nuclear ambitions and that Saudi Arabia produces legions of terrorist infected with the viral strain of Wahhabism. These facts all point to the inescapable conclusion that if America is to be safe then these states must be stopped in their tracks. 

If we took overwhelming military action to end these threats once and for all it would be far more effective than anything we have done thus far. So, why don't we do it? Well, Obama and his supporters all believe that most of the world's problems are the fault of America. Therefore, we must make amends. We must lavish aid on those who seek our ruin, redress grievances, thereby legitimizing them in many cases, we must endlessly apologize for our existence, we must engage in lots and lots of talks, we must bend over backwards behaving like pimps for a one-way multiculturalism and subverting ourselves from within.

In short, we behave like a ruling society on the run capable of every fatuity pursuing policies that are harmful to us, promoting people that are anti-American, flattering despots, and playing into the hands of tyrants all to demonstrate our sophistication and lack of stuffiness. America, these people believe, does not deserve its power and influence because it is morally incapable of using it to good effect. This is why the debilitating "Just War Theory" has been forced upon our military and is now being taught in all of our war colleges. Following its precepts lead us to fight police actions with some sort of truce being the goal rather than the enemy's unconditional surrender.

As Elan Journo points out in his book "Winning the Unwinnable War" a good example of this occurred in Iraq. The Iraqis were NOT completely defeated. Instead they were encouraged to believe that their former tribalism and devotion to Islam constituted proper foundations for a new government. This was a huge mistake because it allows the unfettered application of Islamic ideology which is retrograde, medieval and barbaric.

Japan, on the other hand, was only receptive to a new political ideal and a new form of government after they had suffered a devastating defeat. History teaches us that peace is usually achieved after one side has inflicted a crushing defeat on the other. 

It is the solemn and most important duty of any American president to keep America safe and protect American lives. This is done by acting in the objective self-interests of the nation and not by trying to get our enemies to like us. It's best not to get the two confused. In this regard Obama is an abject and dangerous failure.