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HMS Ark Royal is making a visit to Germany.   Then the famous British aircraft carrier will be decommissioned.   The Ark Royal was the flagship of the British armada that sailed in 1982 to recover the Falkland Islands after the Argentineans invaded. 

 

With the decommissioning of the Ark Royal, the British Navy will no longer have an aircraft carrier.  The British fleet that once ruled the waves is now a joke. 

 

What befell the British Navy was not enemy action.  It was something worse.  Liberal budget cuts.   The British government needed more money for entitlement programs, so like liberals everywhere, they took it from the military budget.  For the British, this means war.    Oil has been discovered in the area of the Falkland Islands and Argentina is looking that way.  Once the Ark Royal and other British ships, who are victims of the budget cuts, are decommissioned, the British will have no way to take those islands back the next time Argentina decides war is better than diplomacy.

 

There is a lesson to be learned from this for the United States.   Last year’s defense budget was approximately $680 billion.  The Obama “fake let’s reduce the deficit” committee has suggested budget cuts of $111 billion.

 

Where do we cut?

 

On 9/11, we were attacked and whether we like it or not, we have to fight back.  WE have been fighting for almost ten years.  We have equipment that has simply become obsolete.  We have equipment that has just worn out.   We have soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who need equipment.   Our military, in terms of size, is the smallest it has been since World War II.  So where do we cut?

 

Do we not replace aircraft that date from the 70’s?  Do we not replace ships that date from the 50’s?  Do we want the United States to sill be a super power?  Do we want China to kick us out of the Western Pacific? 

 

In the late 1970’s, the United States military had become hollow.  It could not carry out many of its basic missions.  Then Ronald Reagan became President and we built up our military.   That was then and this is now.  The last four Presidents have blown the peace dividend.  Even after 9/11, George Bush did not build the military the way he needed to. 

 

As we go into 2011, we are going to have to look at what is going to be defunded.  In most cases, that is what we will need to do. But we are also going to have to take a look at what needs to be funded.

 

As a country, we are going to have to make a decision.  Do we want to be a superpower or do we want to be an unimportant country, like Britain. 

 

We know Obama wants us to be weak and impotent.  But is that really what America wants?

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Permalink Reply by David R Aikens on November 25, 2010 at 5:48pm
i hope not
Permalink Reply by Joanne P. Tellez Giron on November 25, 2010 at 6:13pm
Remember...WE SURROUND THEM....We will overcome.
Permalink Reply by Robert R.Sewell Sr on November 25, 2010 at 6:32pm
I HAVE WARNED TO ALL AMERICANS WE MUST BUILD UP OUR NEW MILITARY NOW BECAUSE OF WARNING TERRORISTS ARE ALREADY NOW INISDE MEXICO FROM VENEZULA CHAVEZ GAVE THEM FRAUD PASSPORTS TO ENTER MEXICO AND USA !!!, CHAVEZ SAID OVER MILLION TERRORISTS !, RECENTLY BORDER PATROL CAUGHT ONE VEHICLE THAT INCLUDING 8 CHINESE !!. WHY ARE CHINESE --- AGENTS OR SPYING OR TERRORISTS FOR CHINA ?. THINK ABOUT IT NOW .

WE MUST WARNING TO ALL CONGRESS AND EVEN ON JAUNARY 5 , 2011 NEW CONGRESS AND WARNING THEM TO BUILD UP OUR FIRST THING RIGHT NOW ARE NEW U.S. MILITARY CALLING TO DEFEND AMERICA BOTH BORDER LINES NORTH AND SOUTH !.ALSO CALLING OUR TWO WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANSTAIN U.S. SOLIDERS BACK HOME THIS
SPRING NOT SUMMER !. IT MAY BE TOO SHORT NOTICE BUT DO OUR BEST WE CAN .
Permalink Reply by Robert R.Sewell Sr on November 25, 2010 at 6:32pm
I HAVE WARNED TO ALL AMERICANS WE MUST BUILD UP OUR NEW MILITARY NOW BECAUSE OF WARNING TERRORISTS ARE ALREADY NOW INISDE MEXICO FROM VENEZULA CHAVEZ GAVE THEM FRAUD PASSPORTS TO ENTER MEXICO AND USA !!!, CHAVEZ SAID OVER MILLION TERRORISTS !, RECENTLY BORDER PATROL CAUGHT ONE VEHICLE THAT INCLUDING 8 CHINESE !!. WHY ARE CHINESE --- AGENTS OR SPYING OR TERRORISTS FOR CHINA ?. THINK ABOUT IT NOW .

WE MUST WARNING TO ALL CONGRESS AND EVEN ON JAUNARY 5 , 2011 NEW CONGRESS AND WARNING THEM TO BUILD UP OUR FIRST THING RIGHT NOW ARE NEW U.S. MILITARY CALLING TO DEFEND AMERICA BOTH BORDER LINES NORTH AND SOUTH !.ALSO CALLING OUR TWO WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANSTAIN U.S. SOLIDERS BACK HOME THIS
SPRING NOT SUMMER !. IT MAY BE TOO SHORT NOTICE BUT DO OUR BEST WE CAN .
Permalink Reply by hijinx60 on November 25, 2010 at 6:50pm
A large gun is a good thing in battle, but isn't anything but a club without rounds for it! We MUST keep a strong military and this means armed both technically and with the resources to fight. It is better to have such and not need it than to need it and not have it, Teddy Rosevelt said, "Talk softly and carry a big stick." Obama says,'Talk sweetly and be a big stick!!'
Permalink Reply by Jimmy Hight on November 25, 2010 at 7:33pm
The military only needs to cut waist and the biggest waist is at the top. When you have a leader that can't lead then you will be waisting a lot of time and money following him. He has to go along with all who have participated in the big foopaw to put him there. Throw out the trash and you wont have to worry about a strong military. God Bless the men and women who put their lives on the line every day for you and me. BHO could not clean the latrines for this bunch of fine men and women. It takes a special kind of pride to be in the military. You have to Love your family and care about what happens to them. Throw out the trash and the military cuts will stop.
Permalink Reply by Larry Cumbie on November 25, 2010 at 7:54pm
We know what Obama wants. He wants the U.N. to be the superpower which rides herd over every country. That's the dream of the One Worlders. That is the long term intention of the U.N. small arms treaty and the intention of the U.N. Naval treaty. Notice, however, that there is no accommodation being made for the U.N. to become the "policeman of the world" in a military sense. The One Worlders want to make military defense for any given country unnecessary because the U.N. will be the boss of us all. The U.S. will be to the U.N. as Texas or Florida or Nebraska are to the U.S. (states within a state), but without the military defense obligation because the U.N. will not have the military muscle to protect countries in the same way the U.S. can protect its States. It's a foolish, dangerous, Liberal utopian fantasy. It will not work and will lead to more powerful countries making small wars on neighbors or, Allah forbid, one violent aggressor with a savage intent to conquer the world. What do Americans want? Not THAT. For years I have heard that the U.S. cannot afford to be the "policeman of the world" from Liberals but when a favorite Liberal entity (Darfur, Rwanda, Uganda, and Bosnia come to mind immediately) needs military assistance, who do the Liberals call for? The US military, or NATO. Now we have this New Start Treaty with Russia. Its intentions are laudable. Its "reality" is not. It is long standing Liberal dogma that unilateral nuclear disarmament by America was the right thing to do. Now we have TWO countries, US and Russia, mutually agreeing to downsize our nuclear arsenals (good thing: you can only blow up the world one time, so why do we need to have the capacity to blow the world up 1,000 times? ) But, here is the unreal expectation: that the treaty will influence rogue states NOT to pursue nuclear armaments. Here's the risk: we downsize, Russia downsizes and N. Korea, Iran and Syria, along with terrorist clents, upsize their nuclear capability. When the US and Russia become substantially less threatening to world peace by weakening our nuclear option, the rogue States will be emboldened, not LESS threatening.

America needs to stand strong militarily and needs the budget to make that happen, year in and year out. To render our military weak so as to "be like the other kids on the block" is an impeachable violation of the Oath of Office, from the President and Vice President, down through the ranks to the Appropriations Committee in the House.
Permalink Reply by Joanne P. Tellez Giron on November 25, 2010 at 9:11pm
And do you really trust Russia...? The Start treaty is only good for our enemies. Putin must be laughing his head off.
This child in the White House doesn't know how to play with the big boys. I may be way off. He may very well know exactly what he's doing. All I know is this: these are very dangerous times we live in. May God help us all.
Permalink Reply by Alan Hunt on November 25, 2010 at 9:01pm
I'm sorry, but your argument is disingenuous at best. Britain had to scale back their military because they scaled back their colonial empire. It wasn't a reduced budget as much as reduced revenue that gutted the British military.

As far as the US? Personally, I believe in a strong military, but as far as I'm concerned, we could scale it back simply because I don't believe Iraq, or Afghanistan, is worth a single damned American life. Not now, not ever. We don't need to be, and shouldn't be, the world's police force. I want us strong enough to keep what we have, and prevent anyone from pushing us around. Other than that, I am with George Washington in that we look to our own and ourselves, and to hell with Europe and the rest of the world. If you're worried about the Chinese, then stop buying their crap and they won't have the money for adventurism. Same with the Arabs. Drill the hell of the oil to be found around our continent, including the various tar sands, let them sell oil to each other. We've been completely self-sufficient in the past, we could be again.
Permalink Reply by Robert R.Sewell Sr on November 26, 2010 at 9:07am
VERY VERY TRUE !!!. IAM ALSO WITH GEORGE WASHINGOTN AND OTHER LEADERS !.
FIRST OF ALL NUMBER ONE IS TO "KICK UNITED NATION ADM. IN NYC OUT AND CLOSED BUSINESS" !!. THEY ARE OUR DANGEROUYS AND PUBLIC ENEMIES NO. 1 IN AMERICA NATION.
SECOND: WE BELIEVED CALLING OUR SOLDIERS AT IRAQ AND AFGHANSTAIN BACK TO AMERICA RIGHT AWAY NOW TO DEFEND OUR BORDER LINES BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH AND BOTH EAST-WEST COASTS BY NAVALS AND AIR FORCES ,ARMY AND MARINES ON BOTH BORDER LINES !. SET UP MANY DEFENSE AND BALLASTIC MISSLES AROUND USA !.
THIRD CLEAN UP ALL TERRORISTS INCLUDING MUSLIMS AND ISLAMS ARE NOT WORTH TO ALL AMERICANS, THEY HAVE BEEN TWO FACES AND DANGEROUS TO KILL US ONE DAY .
FOURTH BUILD UP ALL BEST DEFENSE FOR AMERICA COUNTRY ALSO BUILD UP STRONGER BEST AND HONEST CONGRESS PEOPLE. THE BEYOND OTHERS FEDERALS.
FIFTH, REBUILT OUR AMERICA INTO NEW JOBS, HOMES, FAMILY INCOMES ETC ETC. BACK INTO NORMAL LIFE .
SIXTH, KEEP ALERT TO ALL AMERICANS AND OUR COUNTRY TO BE SAFE AND WELL PROTECTION.
Permalink Reply by Robert R.Sewell Sr on November 26, 2010 at 11:48am
YOUR SENSE MADE SENSE ANYWAY !
Permalink Reply by Jack Enright on November 26, 2010 at 7:47pm
Alan - with all due respect, Judson is right on target with his assessment of why Britain's armed forces have been cut to a sick joke. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Empire, or the colonies, and everything to do with politics.

Just as in 1940, Britain needs to trade with many other countries in order to obtain vital raw materials - including food. Thanks to our membership of the bloated, undemocratic and unaccountable EU, we have seen a large chunk of our farmers put out of business, and our fishermen prevented from fishing in our home waters, whilst foreign fishermen wipe out our fish stocks - which means we are now more dependent on imported food than we were in 1940. And how do you think that food comes into Britain? Apart from various exotic fruits, it comes in by sea - just as it did 70 years ago.

You may not be aware that, by 1941, German U-boats were sinking merchant ships faster than we could build replacements - and we came perilously close to running out of a host of vital strategic supplies, as well as food. Were we to find ourselves at war with a country which had the capability to attack our supply ships, they could defeat us without ever needing to invade Britain. Regardless of the loss of Empire, we have to be able to defend those imports - or face starvation. Even with the Royal Navy in its present state, we can no longer safeguard shipping convoys in time of war. With the further cuts which are going to be imposed, we will have to rely on the French to provide us with maritime reconnaissance bombers, and air carriers. Only a few weeks ago, two Russian submarines were spotted only 70 miles off the British coast. Our Nimrods are all grounded, as they are unfit for service, the French Atlantique MR bombers were grounded, as striking French workers had blockaded the oil refineries, so they had no fuel! Result was we had to ask our American friends if they could track the Russian subs with P3 Orions - which they did.

Ask any French sailor about their single carrier, the 'Charles de Gaulle', and he'll tell you it's a clapped out heap of junk, which spends more time in the repair yards than it does at sea.

Even more, President Sarkozy was directly questioned, a couple of weeks back,on how much we could depend on his support in the case of a second attempt on the Falklands. He made it absolutely clear that, unless he felt a threat applied to French interests, no French forces would committed. Do you think the Argentinians missed that?

If we left the EU, our savings in contributions would more than cover the cost of upgrading and expanding our armed forces to a point where they could do their jobs properly and safely. We know for a fact that huge sums of what we pay in to the EU vanishes in corrupt payments - the EU's own auditors haven't signed off their accounts for the last 14 years! Yet all three of our main political parties have made it absolutely clear that they are determined to keep us in the EU, regardless of the fact that the majority of the British people want out.

The current shambles of a government has also ring-fenced our National Health Service, our overseas aid budget, the carbon trading scam, and the huge sums being squandered on "the fight against catastrophic man-made climate change". Can you believe that our NHS is the fourth largest employer in the world? One of the reasons for it is that successive governments have encouraged it to take on more and more useless admin staff, in non-jobs, just to make our unemployment figures look better - and we're talking 6 figure numbers here, at the very least. But Cameron and Clegg insist that not one penny of the NHS budget will be touched!

To sum up, Alan, Judson is absolutely correct in his assessment. The vast sums of money being squandered by our loony liberal government prove that we do have the funds to run an effective Army, Navy and Air Force - the cutbacks are purely down to the politicians' determination to spend money on their left-wing agenda instead.

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