Sunday, January 3, 2016

Rude Awakenings

          There wasn't a lot of hope when Chuck Hagel was named Secretary of Defense by Barack Obama even though he was a Republican. Time proved this pessimism out for he always looked haggard and sounded naive. He eventually resigned from that job just as Leon Panetta and Robert Gates had. He recently gave a lengthy interview and in it shed additional light on the Department of Defense and Obama's inner circle micromanagement of it. This followed similar opinions of the former Secretaries.
           Barack Obama knows very well what is going to happen when he leaves office. Books will be written from all directions telling of a president that was not disengaged as it appeared to some but very active, only covertly so, through his inner circle who heavy-handedly relayed his demands to cabinet heads, generals and bureaucrats.
         This president's actions concerning Islamic terrorism are mistakenly seen as inaction. He wants this Caliphate to come about and doing little to stop it will promote its success. He wants Israel to be neutralized. I do not believe that any of those dutifully towing the line in this administration know of his true intentions. He doesn't believe a word of this Climate Change nonsense but has an EPA director that does, so she can be very useful in accomplishing his goals that have nothing to do with the earth's climate. His Homeland Security director is equally in the dark. His Vice-President is a dupe as is John Kerry, both chosen because they were perceived as harmless.
         Barack Obama has one more year left. He's not going to be very well liked after this is all over and he understands that. He looks like he's having a good time but deep down within he must tremble for he also knows very well that he has lost control of what he started. He has named so many people to important positions for political expediency that he will someday wish that they had some abilities. He emboldened Vladimir Putin and before this is all over may very well have to turn to the generals he effectively disenfranchised.  He has no control over Iran and he believed his own false words on protecting us from terrorists.
         When the days come that demand strong leadership he will be sorely reminded that he has none and never had any beyond implementing the tenets from Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals. The liberal media will not take kindly to him after the truth comes out. Celebrities will no longer want their picture taken with him and the youth will mock him when they see the future in store for them, and they will thus long for the one they once had and ignorantly protested against.