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I’m trying to wrap my brain around Clyburn’s statement here:

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn told delegates in Denver that real national security requires “visionary leadership,” not arsenals of weapons, miles of chain-link fences or shallow tough-talking.

We don’t need an arsenal of weapons.  So what are we supposed to use when threatened by our enemies, throw spitwads at them?  It is that large arsenal of weapons that keeps us from being invaded by the likes of the Russians, the Chinese, and the radical Islamic extremists razing cain across the Middle East and Northern Africa.

We don’t need chain link fences.  I assume he is referring to a border fence.  I don’t necessarily disagree with that.  There are other methods, like fiercely punishing employers who hire illegals, eliminating anchor baby status, and denying social services to illegals, but Obama will never do any of these thing and the border fence ain’t gonna hurt.  It has in fact worked in San Diego.

I don’t know what he’s referring to when he says shallow, tough talking.  Maybe he was dismayed by McCain’s statement on Russia and Georgia.  Maybe he means the Axis of Evil comments by Bush.  Maybe it’s everything.  What I do know is that a President Obama will show great weakness in the face of our nation’s enemies.  I am by no means a neo-con, being very opposed to the view behind the Monroe Doctrine that we are to be the world’s police, but how much more diplomacy are we to be expected to engage in?  We’ve talked and talked and talked with Iran and they are still following through with their nuclear ambitions.  We’ve angrily shaken our finger at Russia and shamed them for their invasion of Georgia and yet they are still occupying parts of the country.  Sometimes force is going to be the only answer.  Sometimes the enemy makes that choice for you.  Obama does not have the strength nor the judgment to know when to make that decision.

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