AMERICA HALF MAST

AMERICA HALF MAST

Written by: Colin Bruce Munro Wood – 04/26/2016 – 07:54PM ET

 

In my recent 3-year descent from right wing beliefs since the horrid year of 2001, that changed me from a die-hard liberal to an O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh pet, I have come back towards the middle, and find myself as a newly established Independent Patriot, and Constitutionalist.  Out of this new role, I sometimes find myself leaning slightly left on some issues, and leaning right on others.  I like the see-saw ride I suppose, but it sure makes me feel more balanced, honest, and true, without any extreme bias.

So, in this article, I will aim to point out a failure, of which I believe has been President Barack Obama’s largest mistake, that is hurting our country, our relations abroad, and or soldiers who are still out on the battlefields.

As an Independent, I feel that President Obama has done many great things for our country economically, and possibly with some of our allies.  However, he has drawn even more ire against America, than even George H Bush did, and that is of grave concern to our soldiers across the world.  These soldiers, are being stretched thing, due to massive cuts across the board, in all areas of national defense. Be it the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, or National Guard, we are decreasing, and decreasing our numbers, due to Obama’s policies on military buildup.

Bret Baier, (chief political anchor and anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier ((weeknights 6-7PM/ET)), the top-rated cable news program in its timeslot and consistently one of the top five shows in cable news. Based in Washington, DC, he joined the network in 1998 as the first reporter in the Atlanta bureau), of Fox News Channel, recently had a weekend program that ran on a Saturday night two weekends in a row, showing how Obama’s foreign and military policies, have cut our military in half.  These cuts have weakened our positions around the world, stretched our military thin, and caused groups such as ISIS to power ahead, only having to worry about the United Nations’ weak fight against their insurgencies around the globe.

Due to these weak military policies, our soldiers are coming home with no jobs in place, no money, and those who are abroad, fighting for democracy around the globe, are being put in more harm’s way, due to a lack of funding to give them the armor, and the weaponry they need…. Your children!!  Our children…. America’s children, and young women and men, are being put out there to die, an easier death, due to our nation’s military prowess being cut in half.

In 2013, Leon Panetta, Ex-Defense Secretary of the DOD stated, “These steps would seriously damage the fragile American economy, and they would degrade our ability to respond to crisis precisely at a time of rising instability across the globe”.

Fast forward to April 2016, and we see the resurgence of North Korea, flexing its military and nuclear muscles, we have China building new manmade military bases in the South Seas.  We have Iran making deals with America for nuclear materials.  We have Russia performing close as a shave, fly-bys of our warships.  We are nearing the Russian coast with our fleets, and ISIS continues to grow, and other terrorist groups continue to bomb.

Has the weakening of our United States Military Branches been the best thing for America and the World?  I highly doubt it, as trouble around the globe is sky-rocketing, ever since the cuts on our Department of Defense, and our military have taken effect only a few years ago.

Whoever steps up as President of the United States, has got to reverse that trend, and put funding back in our military’s pockets, and out of the hands of greedy politicians, and their ridiculous pork-barrel spending projects!

Make our military safe and strong again President-elect, and save our Nation and the World from a future fall into destruction. Let’s fly our flag proudly at full mast once again, just as our Navy proudly did, in the War of 1812!

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