By William Kristol in The Foreign Policy Initiative "President Obama is an appalling commander
in chief. In the last couple of months alone, he’s selected and muscled through
the Senate the least qualified nominee for secretary of defense in a half
century; forced out of his position early a superb combatant commander, General
James Mattis, because Mattis took seriously the Iranian threat; [then Obama] blithely
ordered women into combat arms units, with no pretense of serious consideration
of the effect of this on the capability, discipline, and morale of our
warfighters. "Before that, while growing every other part of the federal
government, he cut defense. So we shouldn’t be surprised that he’s not doing
anything serious about the further devastating cuts sequestration will impose on
the military."
...."But the GOP is now saying: Yes. Which means the Republican party is complicit in
the failure of political responsibility and national seriousness we’re now
witnessing. Which means, unfortunately, that historians will say not just of the
Obama administration but also of today’s Republican party: “They were weighed in
the balance and found wanting.” "
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