America coming bounty

Heads have been spinning ever since yesterday when revelations of Bob Woodward's new book "Obama Wars" first hit the media. Everything from personality clashes amongst his administration and campaign people, to outright head on conflicts with America's military leaders over how to conduct the war in Afghanistan.

Obama is cited several times in the excerpts as being diametrically opposed to any Afghanistan policy proffered by the military, that doesn't give him a two years and out end game from the moment he set foot in the oval office.

Woodward covers it all from remarks made by General Petraeus, alleging the general's sentiments that "they don't know who they are (expletive) with." To clashes with Defense Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

It's all there according to Woodward's reporting and the media is going absolutely gaga over the revelations. But one thing that caught my eye and stuck out more ominously than the president's clashes with the military, was a statement that he made concerning terrorism.

Bob Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war

Woodward's book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger."

Can we? That is a statement that deserves a lot more scrutiny than the mainstream media is giving it at this point. Sure, it's interesting to read of the quips and infighting amongst an administration completely opposed to the war and worried about the influences Hillary Clinton could have is appointed to to high of a position in the Obama cabinet, but the greater worry is barely being mentioned in passing.

I believe that any reasonably minded and informed American would have to come to the conclusion that another major terrorist attack on America is not simply an if, but rather a when proposition.

We are due. As a matter of fact we are dreadfully overdue in my opinion. and with global terror having been given a pass by this administration for the past almost two years, I have to wonder if we are not literally on the cusp of disaster.

George Bush was a lot of things and he made a lot of mistakes and questionable policy decisions in my opinion, but he never took his eye off the ball when it came to protecting America from terrorist attacks. I can't say that I view Obama in the same light.

I believe Obama took his eyes off the threat almost immediately and began focusing immediately on placating the liberal apologist left, while at the same time mustering ever effort to pass his massive socialist agenda into law. There are certainly many Americans who are presently angered and aggrieved over the president's failure to address the economy and the unemployment rate, but not as many concerned about the looming reality that America remains a target for Islamist and terrorism.

So while Woodward's book has ignited renewed interest in the behind the scenes corridor conversations at the white House, the greater realities of what this president is saying and has said on major issues such as terrorism and how he views it are left to slip away into the backdrop of political noise over all of this.

The simple fact is this. Bob Woodward has assembled a collection of informational tidbits and conversational revelations alright, but he also interviewed the man Obama for the book. And the telling reality (as cited above) is that Barack Obama looks at (what he has to know is inevitable) as something that is "absorbable."

In other words, Barack Obama isn't interested in preventing the next terrorist attack, even an attack significantly larger than 9/11. Because Barack Obama believes that regardless of what Islamic terrorist accomplish, it will be something that is "absorbable" and something that in the end will make America "stronger."

Here's the real problem with that thinking. When America was attacked on September 11th 2001, we had a president and an administration that made it immediately clear that there would be dire consequences for those involved. When George Bush stood on that pile of rubble at Ground Zero and told Americans that those responsible would hear America's response soon, that was the sense of purpose that made America stronger.

Sadly, we don't have that same level of leadership or commitment to this country now. Barack Obama will not be standing in the aftermath of the next attack and shaking any fists and making promises to those responsible. Barack Obama will simply look at it as something "absorbable" and the cost of doing business in his rainbow world of rabbit hole socialism.

Osama Bin Ladin has been working on what he calls his "American Hiroshima" project for well over a decade now. His desire is to attack America with nuclear weapons (plural). Simultaneously hitting several major American cities with nuclear devices.

Al Qaeda is already operating in Mexico and slipping operatives across our borders daily. Anyone simply reading the news reports of the drug wars on the border and the sudden inclusion of car bombs as weapons between these drug lords has to know what is coming to America.

And here we have our president basically telling our enemies and those Americans who care to be listening, that he isn't really all that concerned about terrorist attacks, because they are absorbable and they in the end will only make us stronger.

So the old axiom, "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" seems to be the policy statement and perspective of this administration as it concerns terrorism.

Many have seen the analogy of America as a 'paper tiger' being bantered around since Obama took office. America no longer to be feared, America no longer the global power. Barack Obama has seen to that and our enemies and potential enemies have taken notice. From the Iranians to Hugo Chavez down in Venezuela, to the Russians doing fly bys of our Navy ships to the Chinese unabashedly telling us to butt out of the South China sea. It's all there for anyone who stays informed of world events to watch, read and ponder.

I am but a single spectator to this grand drama, but I no longer see America as just a paper tiger under this administration. Based upon these new revelations in Bob Woodward's book and the statements now being published from his interview with Barack Obama? I have to believe that America is being prostituted by this administration as a paper towel.

No longer even as a toothless and claw less tiger. We are viewed by our own president, as nothing more than a wad of paper towels. Something that absorbs the evil and wickedness and moves on. Because after all, there are other larger fish to fry in this president's mind. Getting us the hell out of Afghanistan win, lose or draw and passing the rest of his socialist agenda seem to be the priorities.

To hell with the economy, to hell with jobs, to hell with the military, to hell with terrorism. That is the message that I keep getting.

And now I am wondering. I wonder how well paper towels are at soaking up blood. Because that is what's coming. Teddy Roosevelt sent the "Great White Fleet" around the world to let everyone know that America did in fact walk softly and carry a big stick.

Now? We have a president who in essence has said, 'don't worry about the mess, pass the paper towels, we can absorb this.'

God help us........