Obama's National Security Policies

Following up on my last article on Mr. Obama's national security policies and my recent radio show on Radio Liberty I would like to summarize our current threat and assess what our adversaries are doing:

Our Soft underbelly:

Venezuela:

Hugo Chavez is funding many leftist organizations and candidates. He's won recently in El Salvador where a communist has been elected President. Chavez has also expanded his funding of FARC and has assisted in supplying bases for Hezbollah and other terrorist groups training in Venezuela.The worst thing that is going on is he is now shifting to massive funding of leftist candidates in Mexico and Peru and using subversion in Panama., Panama . is the new Casablanca and the intelligence war is expanding with the US intelligence community, Chinese, FARC operatives, and a variety of other foreign services i.e. Taiwan, France and Brazil as well as Colombia and England operate in Panama.The biggest danger is that of Chavez funding leftists in Mexico. If a leftist candidate is elected in Mexico it would completely change the national security posture of the United States.Chavez would not only now have anti-American Presidents in Cuba, Bolivia,Ecuador, Nicaragua,and El Salvador but in Mexico. In addition he continues to fund leftists and communists in Peru and in Argentina.Chavez is even pouring money into Colombia as the next year's election may actually see FARC candidates elected.Only Chile and Colombia are standing up to Chavez's subversion.Chavez is advocating war against the USA and is steadily building his arsenal and reducing the US position in Latin America. Both Russia and China support Chavez as does Iran and fundamentalist Muslims.

Russia:

Russia has now formally embarked on a major arms build-up regardless of tough economic times.Russia plans to build 6 to 20 new submarines equipped with cruise missiles.Russia is embarking on new ICBM's and more sophisticated nuclear warheads.Russia has also developed one of the most sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons systems and supplying to Iran, Venezuela etc.Russia is also developing new tanks, naval warfare ships,and a new fleet of long range bombers. While not on the scale of the cold war-the new Russian military is leaner, meaner and more technologically advanced than the USA in certain areas.

China:

While China is playing the wait and see game they have indicated no more funding for US loans. They are waiting to see how bad the US and the West's economies are and if they deteriorate they will expand their goals of a blue water navy and greater development of ICBM's. They will also position themselves to take or co-op Taiwan and eventually push the US out of Pacific bases.

Iran:

Iran believes Mr. Obama will give them everything they want-dropping the economic sanctions,releasing the billions the US and West have frozen and obtaining US oil technology which they need desperately.

North Korea:

This crazy country may in fact want to have a war with South Korea and or believe it can extort more from the USA by continued threats of missile development.The USA has done everything it can and it still is not good enough for the North Koreans. We have shipped food, fuel, dropped sanctions and taken North Korea off the list of terrorist countries and the North Koreans have reneged on the agreements to stop developing nuclear weapons.The North Koreans continue to ship nuclear technology to the Mideast and continue to verbally threaten South Korea and the USA. A new missile launch could be for the eventual development of detonating over the USA to destroy our communications ability.