Obama Can Absorb Defeat

The United States Congress should move swiftly to censure President Obama for his remarks that, “We (the United States) can absorb a terrorist attack…” And most assuredly the American people should vote him out of office in two years.

For a sitting president to declare to our enemies that it is, in effect, okay to attack our country because we’re strong and we’ll be okay in the aftermath requires swift action from our national leadership to send a strong message to our enemies overseas that, in fact, it is not fine if they attack. President Obama’s callous remarks ignore the reality that men and women were jumping to certain death from their windows in the World Trade Center on 9-11; fire and smoke rolled through Pentagon hallways killing everyone in its wake; and thousands of brave men and women have perished in response so that we may be free.

Bob Woodward does all Americans a favor by pulling back the curtain and revealing the president as a modern day Wizard of Oz; an empty suit who wanted to be president. And, if we connect his “we can absorb a terrorist attack” with his condescension about the good citizens of Pennsylvania clinging to their guns and religion, we begin to see the invisible man. Bit by bit, after 18 months Americans are seeing the real Obama: an aloof Ivy League intellectual with tremendous contempt for the people he allegedly serves.

Absorb this, Mr. President:

-Al Qaeda killed 2,977 American citizens on 9-11-2001 in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Arlington, Virginia.

-Over 1200 U.S. war fighters have been killed in Afghanistan and another 12,000 wounded. In Iraq, we’ve lost nearly 4800 fighting men and women with over 32,000 wounded.

-The New York Stock Exchange lost $1.5 trillion in value in the first week of the aftermath and across the country Americans lost hundreds of thousands of jobs.

We now know an attack is no biggie to the president, but for hundreds of thousands of friends and families of the fallen, the wounded, and the jobless, a terrorist attack is a very real nightmare. Indeed, thousands of civilians who were attacked as well as thousands of servicemen and women who responded suffer haunting post traumatic stress every day. How insensitive can the president possibly be?

The president, though, is not only insensitive to those most affected, he surrounds himself with sycophants and ignores the advice of seasoned civilians and military officers. We see that General Petraeus, Secretary Gates, General Jones, and Admiral Mullen all have choice words for the president or his minions. Petraeus says they are, ” with the wrong guy.” Jones calls the staffers a variety of names that make McChrystal’s comments look tame. Obama gets into Kung Fu stance with Gates and Mullen as well as anyone who doesn’t agree with his expert view on the war in Afghanistan.

So my question is now that he fired General McChrystal, whose staff made less offensive comments about the president’s team, is Obama going to fire Gates, Mullen, Petraeus, and Jones? Mind you, Woodard is not the weasel that Michael Hastings is, and so we can actually believe that Woodward used on the record comments from these senior leaders.

In addition to his demonstration of genuine contempt for the American people with his callous comment and his dismissive attitude toward our most seasoned defense professionals, the president actually never discusses victory or winning because he doesn’t believe we can win. For every war fighter in harm’s way right now, our president has communicated, “Better you than me, buddy.” His campaign promise that Afghanistan was the war of necessity is now revealed as a bold lie, a politician’s sleight of hand to cater to the center.

As a former soldier, there is nothing more disheartening than your leader not believing in your mission. What’s the point of it all if the guy running your country thinks it is a waste of time?

President Obama’s talking points: We can absorb an attack. We don’t need the advice and expertise of the best military and defense professionals in the world. And battlefield or strategic victory is not on the menu.

Let’s hope for our nation’s sake that an Obama victory in 2012 is not on the menu either. Congress can start by censuring this president for his egregious remarks and extreme insensitivity to the people he was elected to serve.