OPINION:
OK, this is getting ridiculous. President Obama seems to think flying a couple 50-year-old B-52s or 30-year-old B-1s near a possible conflict zone is supposed to scare the pants of our adversaries. On the contrary, it shows how weak this White House really is. Our enemies want to destroy us. The policies of the Obama administration have made them think they can, that the U.S. is a decaying paper tiger.
It is painfully obvious that whoever on the national security staff thinks these fly-bys are a good idea has absolutely no military experience. The world knows Obama isn’t serious. These bombers cannot penetrate a real, integrated air defense network. They are stand-off weapon systems. The Air Force has let our nuclear deterrent rest on 22 B-2 airframes — ridiculous. I say this as a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and former USAF pilot.
What would really scare our adversaries is an administration that really took our fiscal problems seriously, that fully funded our military needs, that didn’t have a Marine Corp searching museums for spare parts, that meant it when they declared a ’red line,’ that had 100 modern bombers on alert, that had a navy that could deter China from doing what they are doing in the South China Sea. Obama has let our military atrophy, on purpose. These theatrics are doing more harm than good.
“They are bluffing that B-1Bs are enough for fighting an all-out nuclear war,” said a statement from Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency, reports CNN. “The US imperialists keep letting their nuclear strategic bombers fly over South Korea in a bid to seek an opportunity of mounting a preemptive nuclear attack,” the KCNA statement said. “They had better stop their rash actions,” the statement said.
Unfortunately, some rogue dictator may just decide to call the Situation Room on their bluff here in the next few months while they still can.
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