Quite frankly, whether it’s the Administration’s failure to lead on really any level internationally, or the president’s own indifference to our military which provides for the freedoms we enjoy, I think it’s fair to say that the status of our great nation abroad has been diminished so as to eclipse even the dreaded Carter years. However this latest revelation about our military posture is something unprecedented in the modern application, and leaves a plethora of unanswered questions concerning American military readiness going forward.

So when I heard the suggestion that our expeditionary Marines might now have to ride shotgun on foreign warships for lack of our own vessels, I thought it was a joke, only to confirm the story this afternoon. What in the world is going on at the Pentagon? Have these people lost touch with reality, or are they simply crippled with fear of this president who claims openly now to have none?

The politics of debate between Left and Right has always intrigued me. I’ve enjoyed the back and forth as part of the process of democracy in action, with both sides (hopefully) focused on a better republic under law. But this kind of stuff is just ignorant nonsense, the kind of dangerous college psychobabble which always accompanies inexperience and a fundamental lack of the good judgment and historical knowledge necessary to lead the most powerful nation on planet earth. It makes me sick for the amount of time it will take to reverse the damage this foolishness has done to the United States these past seven years, and for our children whose futures have been compromised and/or jettisoned for the sake of it.