[TheRealThing]

[SIZE="3"] February, 2012

The once stable arab world has become a boiling cauldron of violence and upheaval. The only thing they are in agreement on that I know of is their shared hatred of Israel and the US. The arab spring came in like a lamb and is going out like a lion. Add Iran and Iraq to the mix and it would take a lot more than a police action to deal with them. War is coming by all indications, and may well be set in motion by Iran forcing our hand over something like closing the Strait of Hormuz. [/SIZE]It wouldn't take a whole lot to imagine North Korea jumping in, with the outside chance of the Soviet Union or Red Chinese involvement. With our coffers nearly empty we'd be stretched to the breaking point unless Great Brittan and Israel allied with us, which, is likely. However, if Russia and/or China were to get involved, it could be lights out. We won't have precious months and years to tool up and manufacture the needed ordinance, and military equipment in the form of aircraft and naval vessels we would surely need to defend our nation, like we had at the onset of WWII. If it happens now, things will go much quicker and we had better be up for the challenge manufacturing wise, or we won't be able to supply our war effort. Which, of course, would mean certain defeat.

I sincerely believe that the novice Obama adminstration thinks they can just show up and reason with world leaders.This is a tremendous over estimation of our world influence today, in my opinion. I always think of Nancy Pelosi showing her naivity in her one woman quest to settle the middle eastern dispute in the early days soon after her ascention to the speakership. Liberals live in la-la land, and hope springs eternal with them. Where they saw an arab spring, I saw a very troubling destabilization of the region. With Obama at the helm, it's sort of like the rich man's spoiled son being handed full control of his daddy's company. Most of the time, the company doesn't last long. In days past, facing the full power of America's military might was out of the question for the rest of the world. And, likely we could have defeated planet earth is we'd had to. I don't see us in a position anything like that now a days. If we had to face the coalition mentioned above, I don't know if our chances would even be 50/50. And, before anyone mentions our nuclear armaments, I was talking conventional warfare when I said at one time we could have faced the greatest nations and still would have prevailed.

During times like these America needs experience in the White House, not the liberals dream come true, santa claus incarnate. This isn't funny anymore, we're inching ever closer to real trouble. Frankly, I wonder if Mitt is up to the challenge either. I'd be happier with Newt, but, given the choice between any of the Republican candidates or Obama, it truly is a no brainer. If we go into the next four years with Obama still president, the doomsday preppers are going to look like pure geniuses.

- Fast forward to recent days; BLOOMBERG NEWS April 22, 2019

Alireza Tangsiri, head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps navy force. “In the event of any threats, we will not have the slightest hesitation to protect and defend Iran’s waterway.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...se-it-fars

Since April, Iran shot down 2 US drones, shot gaping holes in at least 2 oil tankers and seized a half dozen more oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz. Tensions over the mess means US forces are on full alert and according to Iran, we are within the blink of a military eyeball of war. Not to mention the fact that over and over again, Iran has threatened to cut off the oil supply in closing the Straits.

Without question IF not for the valiant entrepreneurial spirit of US oil frackers, gasoline prices would be through the roof right now. Obama's war on fossil fuels though rather devastating in it's heyday, failed. You may remember all those US off shore oil rigs shut down and the general "no drill" moratorium that the Obama misadministration imposed on the oil industry? Additionally, the clever and crushing blight imposed on US defense by Obama's sequestration plan, did manage to decimate for all practical purposes, the capabilities of the US Armed Services--- Our new President however, (unlike the rabid inmates of the Obama romper room state and defense departments,) can clearly see the threats this world poses against our land and thus has managed single handedly to resuscitate the US Military. The Navy is once again vital, as are the Air Force, the US Marine Corps and the US Army; all recently supplied with new aircraft, ships, spare parts and armament of all types.

But as the above mentioned matters have now come to light, you'll certainly not hear people in the fake news business, or the Dems of the US Congress, address Obama's patently obvious dereliction regarding same. Nor will you hear a word about the subsequent clarity of thought and leadership of which President Trump is in possession, and which BTW, are SOLEY responsible for our safety during the near miss posed by present conditions in the Straits which to some degree, have been averted. Nor will you hear a word about conditions in our own back yard to the south, which in my mind are every bit as much the threat if not more so than Hormuz. The Panama Canal Zone and Venezuela. China is no friend of America but she controls the canal which of course is vital to US shipping. Additionally in Venezuela, Russia is fast depositing troops and all manner of military hardware to include submarines, and as such Venezuela is in the process of becoming a Russian military zone.