[TheRealThing]

Russia will inevitably annex Crimea.
Question is, is that all...

All the experts I'm hearing, say Putin's take over of the Ukraine is a done deal. And all Obama has done is to express amazement, you know sort of how one might act in an emotional response akin to catching your best friend and your girl friend together? Remember what Obama said paraphrased, "'I'm so shocked, here we were just together in Sochi having such a good time." Adding, again paraphrased, "We're getting a club together called the 'Global Community'. If you don't pull out of the Ukraine, we're not going to let you be in our club."

This whole thing is eerily similar to the Carter Administration, 1976-1980. The country Russia invaded in those days was a western leaning Afghanistan. The country being invaded today is western leaning Ukraine. In 1979, an equally naïve and nearly as novice President Carter, expressed "astonishment" in reaction to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. And, you may not remember, but in a bit of irony, Carter's iron fisted response was to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games. That put Russia in her place boy, LOL. In a nightmarish revisit of the Carter administration's naiveties, and in place of a viable foreign policy, our college kid burdened Department of State, decides to borrow a passé and worn out joke of an operating philosophy originally dreamed up as an advertising gimmick by "Staples", (remember the EASY Button?) and Hillary hands Putin a "RESET" button supposedly written in Russian but when translated correctly, said "OVERLOAD." Oh our foreign policy team is on overload alright, and the only world player that seems unwilling to protect her interests these days might be America.

Militarily, the first thing Obama did was to cancel the US fifth generation F-22 jet fighter program. Next to go were ground based interceptors in Poland that largely 'dehorned' NATO. Our all-volunteer Armed Services have endured massive personnel cuts, our Navy is being mothballed and on and on goes the cascade of US military decline.

Though I have characterized Russian military might as being far from toothless, they are none the less, just a ghost of their former hey day. Should they be able to dictate terms at the arms control bargaining table, or get by with seizing Ukraine? Hardly. But, when one gets a firm grasp on the aspects of pacifism, the play book becomes clear. Pacifists, demanded the US stay out of military conflict before and during WW2. Pacifists went into orbit because we declared war on Japan even though they'd just massacred thousands in the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor. In fact, there were many rallies and peace marches emanating from the likes of the University of California, Berkley beginning in 1940 and, continuing on through the Viet Nam War until this very day. That's right, this baloney has been afoot that long. The liberals just keep relabeling and repackaging cowardice under the guise of meekness.

Liberals will always be liberals. A very simple investigation into history reveals the truth. Liberals are dreamers who cannot deal with the realities that continue to abound in the world around them. And, if we Americans allow it, they will totally disarm this land. Even though I continue to assert the flaws within the Republican Party, we must recognize they are at least willing to defend our homeland, maintaining a strong deterrent. Which, BTW, saves far more lives than cowering like babies begging for the heathen to be civilized. And don't let them (liberals) try to tell you that the fiscal policies of FDR (a wonderful wartime president and embodiment of the spirit of Americanism BTW) brought the US out of the clutches of the Great Depression, it was WW2 and the industrial boom that followed.

The US has recently been to the summit of her historical significance under Republican President Ronald Reagan, and she has seen that significance bottom out. Folks, in those days we had no problems, and America wasn't broken. None the less, America spurned the model of excellence Reagan developed and elected and then reelected, an administration bent of transforming her into something new. The record is clear and the contrast is unmistakable, when one contrasts the Reagan Era versus the Obama Era the inescapable truth is blindingly self evident. America will go one of two directions this fall. Farther into the wilderness, or begin a return to some semblance of greatness.

AFTR, it was under the Reagan administration that we saw the concept and implementation of Cadillac insurance plans emerge. Not the Dems