For Troubles Sake

A Latin adage, si vis pacem, para bellum, has never been more true than it is today. Our nation had been throughout the last century the beacon of liberty for the world and more importantly, the defender of freedom. What emboldens a petty tyrant like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to declare that Iran will start enriching her uranium stockpile to 20%- the threshold of weapons-grade? What causes the Red Chinese to believe that they can dictate with whom the President of the United States meets? Obama dare not meet the Dalai Lama because the Chinese Communists now hold so much of our debt that their new found clout and the coward in the White House allow the Reds to play social director to a man whose office made him the presumed leader of the world. The free world and those aspiring towards freedom always looked to the US to lead the way, but with the Appeaser-in-Chief now in office, the oppressed of the world are left to fend for themselves at the mercy of their oppressors. It was never solely the ideal of freedom that made the US the leader of the free world; it was the force behind that great notion. Obama has abdicated that and the rest of the world both friend and foe know it.