Toddler in the White House

Then candidate Obama made a great showing of strength during the 2008 campaign when he rightly sited the need for more troops in Afghanistan, after all that is where the real war on terrorism was going on. Why then did it take him so long to approve the additional troops asked for by Gen. McChrystal in August? I cannot help but think that the Administrations waffling on the subject has served only to embolden our enemies, and is directly corrollary to the recent upstroke in American deaths in Afghanistan. America has already lost 241 American Soldiers in 2009 compared with 155 for the whole year of 2008.
In the face of the growing threat of a nuclear Iran and the already existing threat posed by North Korea our president thought it wise to scrap a missile defense site in Eastern Europe intended to protect the American east coast and our European allies from any Iranian attacks, in favour of a less cost effective mobile land-based and sea-based missile defence system, which according to the CBO will take two more years to develop and deploy. These defensive systems will not be able to address the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile threat until 2020.
The president made good on his campaign pledge to weaken America by eliminating spending on future weapons systems such as the super stealth fighter designed to replace the ageing f15 fleet, the f22 and missile defense in the 2010 budget. While he did increase the Defense Budget by 1.4 percent such an increase is laughable when compared with the increases enjoyed by other departments.
The President further shows weakness and a willingness to appease by attempting to negotiate with Iran without precondition. Even President Sarkozy of France is beginning to see the dire ramifications of the Obama Presidency as is evident by the following statement that he made at the UN:

“President Obama dreams of a world without weapons ... but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite. Iran since 2005 has flouted five security council resolutions. North Korea has been defying council resolutions since 1993. I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map.”

President Obama means well but I can't help but think that last November the American people gave a gun to a toddler who is more likely hurt to us than anyone else.