When
the first Cold War ended in 1985, the two leaders were President Ronald Reagan
of the United States and Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and no one knew
more about what a Cold War was, then these two. President Reagan has since
passed away leaving former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as one of the most
knowledgeable people on the historic causes of the cold war and the effects it
had on the world. Mr. Gorbachev has come out on the 25th
anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that the world is on the brink of a
Second Cold War. Although he seems to have an ulterior motive for his comments,
I do believe he is correct.
When
you have one Superpower in the world which is strong and capable, you will have
relative peace throughout the world, but if that superpower becomes weak or
perceived to be weak, the wolves will come out to try a take that superpower
down just like a wounded animal. Cold War was from 1947to1985 with the average
percentage of the US budget (from 1962-1985) being spent on Defense being 33%;
today we are spending 14.9% while our advisories once again build up their
militaries. Not counting the 1947 to 1963 years which Defense spending was in
the 50% arena, after the cold war ended we have cut our military by over 55%
and we are wondering why we are about to have a new Cold War.
In
our history, the military has contributed and given back more to support and
strengthen America than any other area in our society including the academia
world. We have a large problem with American not having any skilled labor and
one reason is because when the draft was installed in America, the military
trained people in a skill and if they used it and stayed in the military or
left and used it in the civilian world, they still had a skill. When the draft
ended in 1973, the military had been training virtually every male in the
American society with a skill they could use in the civilian market. Due to
public resentment to the Vietnam War the Democratic led congress passed a law
ending the draft; but as does most legislation passed using feelings instead of
logic, they had not thought out how to replace the skill creating force the
military had been creating for nearly fifty years. We were one of only two
World Powers fighting to be the only Super Power which under President Reagan
we received and the Soviet Union admitted defeat.
As
long as we had a strong military we could help and defend weaker countries, but
the Democratic leaders in both houses of congress, along with the Democratic
and Republican liberals didn’t like a strong military or country and started
gutted the military. President Carter was the first to start gutting the
military; he didn’t stand with our allies and allowed Iran to fall into the
hands of Muslim extremist and capture 66 US personnel and held them for 444
days until President Reagan took office and immediately released them.
President Reagan built the military back and it shined through letting all know
we were the best during Desert Storm. Then when President Clinton took office,
he started where President Carter left off. Due to his gutting the military,
when we went to war in the second Gulf War our soldiers did not have the best
equipment and were getting killed left and right. President Bush put money back
into the military and greatly limited the deaths through technology and
improvements which once again showed the world we were the best, but in his
last two years in office, he allowed another Democratic congress to dictate the
cutting of the military; apparently neither the Democrats nor Republicans had
learned anything from our history.
Once
the 2008 elections were held, both houses of congress and presidency were held
completely by the liberal Democrats, more money was taken from the military
even though they were in two wars going on. The replacement for the old, out
dated F-15, the F22 was cut and diverted for even more entitlements; all the
technology that was being developed to protect and save our troops was halted.
The wolfs in the world, Vladimir Putin from Russia, Xi Jinping from China,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from Iran, and all the Muslim terrorist leaders from
everywhere
Who
were wondering if the new US President of the United States was going to be as
weak as it seemed; now they knew it was to be, it only took a short time to
validate what they had thought. It wasn’t long before President Obama and the
liberal Senate was making deals with our adversaries, getting nothing in return
for America and our adversaries took everything they could. Now we have this
liberal president lowering our military to pre WWII levels, changing the
standard to be able to fight a two front war to only being able to fight one
war.
You
need to ask yourself, is Mikhail Gorbachev correct and another Cold War is
right around the corner; I believe so. All the progress made for a peaceful
world since WWII has been wiped out, all the lives sacrificed now meaningless,
and all the wolves held at bay set free. President Obama refused to listen to
his military leaders and pulled out of Iraq promising to help if problems
arises but never did, he only sends a few bombs to say “see, I’m helping” ;
this has allowed a Muslim extremist caliphate state to be created, he has
allowed the Russians to invade a sovereign country without raising one finger,
and he has allowed Iran to further develop nuclear bomb technologies which they
will use once they get it. Our nation will be eaten and destroyed unless
something isn’t changed, we cannot keep electing people into office that will
not support and protect America and in many cases are anti-American. When you
have people in our congress who are more for the illegals aliens in this
country then the Americans, you have a problem. We are headed for a new Cold
War and the other question you must ask is, will we win it?
What do you think?
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