Wrecking operation: Our enemies perceive exploitable weakness
Center for Security Policy | Mar 23, 2009
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
President Obama’s stewardship of the national security portfolio to date amounts to a wrecking operation, a set of policies he must understand will not only weaken the United States but embolden our foes. After all, the Communist agitator Saul Alinsky, a formative influence in Mr. Obama’s early years as a “community organizer,” made Rule Number One in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”According to this logic, the various steps Barack Obama is taking with respect to the armed forces, the foreign battlefields in which they are engaged, our allies as well as our adversaries will not only diminish our power. They will encourage our enemies to perceive us as less powerful – with ominous implications. Consider some illustrative examples…
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Frank Gaffney is the President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. His Washington Times column, “Wrecking Operation” is available online at http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.
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