The President “Resets” the War On Terror?

The President has announced a wind-down of the war on terror. He says the al Qaeda is a shell of its former self; and he has inferred the war has been won. Who believes that—with al Qaeda making marked gains to control territory in north Africa, launching more deadly strikes in Iraq, killing American diplomatic personnel in Benghazi, controlling more and more of the insurgency in Syria, launching strikes against Pakistani and Afghan targets, and threatening Israel?!! All this is not to mention the enemies of Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, attacking Israeli military over their own borders and raining down rockets on Israeli targets from Gaza and Lebanon. This war is winding down??

It seems obvious that the president is only conceding the battle to the enemy and wasting all the effort and cost Americans have paid to keep our nation and the rest of the free world free.

Foreign powers know perfectly well how to interpret the President’s words. Those words about protecting Americans against attack have exactly the same weight as his words about establishing a “red line” against the Syrian government if they were to use chemical weapons against their enemies—that is, absolutely nothing. The President is a toothless tiger. No enemy in their right mind will pay a bit of attention to his empty threats.

The primary and most important job of the Federal Government is to protect the American people. Our President and his administration is not doing that—he echoes the words of British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain in the early last century when he thought he had placated the Nazis in Germany. He announced “peace in our time;” that promise brought nothing but disaster on the free world.

Unfinished wars seem to be the pattern of policy in American government. Viet Nam was the first and now we are faced with another surrender to an aggressive enemy. America can do better than this!