Analyst's note: While America gets financially weaker, the Iranian regime continues to develop its hostile nuclear program, safe in the knowledge that it will not be challenged. As you can see our national economy is a major part of our national defense .. or lack thereof.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that Obama views the defense budget as little more than a personal piggy bank. Remember that the ultimate target of the Islamist jihadist in the Middle East is Saudi Arabian oil fields. These oil fields will allow them to control, if not attack, what they call the "little Satan" (Israel) and the "great Satan" (United States).
And without teleprompter - we need 434 more guys like this Mike Kelly from PA
"According to a former member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the mullahs in Iran see "this [as] the century of the Islamic awakening” when they are able to control the world’s economy through the control of oil and the world’s strategic passages. Tragically, proposals now on the table to slash the US defense budget by hundreds of billions may make this nightmare scenario come true.
[....] If the defense cuts being contemplated materialize, the US may very fulfill the fondest wishes of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps referenced above. We have choices, indeed big choices.
[....] Should the United States, though, abandon its leadership role against the new totalitarians from the Middle East and elsewhere, the sacrifice of great Americans--and our allies-- from Concord, Gettysburg, Normandy, Chosin, Khesan, and Ramallah, will have been in vain. Defense budgets are serious things. Let us treat them as such.
*And eliminate some $350 billion in oil import costs flowing overseas, some of it to state sponsors of terror. As former DCI R. James Woolsey has argued, "why should we be paying for both sides in the war against terror states"?
** Lee Iacocca said the national debt in 1981 was $1 trillion; in 1985, $2 trillion; and expected the deficit to hit $3 trillion by 1988. "But if the debt keeps piling up at the same rate that it has since 1980, it's going to hit $13 trillion by the year 2000: That's fourteen times the debt in 1980. ... And yet every month the government is spending $17 billion more than it takes in.” The government now spends roughly $120 billion a month more than it takes in.
