foreign affairs – Ryan S. Walters

On the 11^th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the United States was again the victim of terrorism, as attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Libya, led by Al Qaeda, resulted to the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, including two former Navy Seals. The upheaval then spread across the region and into Asia.

What has been our response? To lie, grovel, and apologize, a reply led by President Obama, a graduate of the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Policy.

This has happened once before, under the presidency of James Earl Carter, another graduate, when in 1979 extremists in Tehran took control of the US embassy and held Americans hostage for more than 400 days. Carter showed himself to be impotent. So has Obama. Continue reading “The new Neville Chamberlain” →

In a report last week from national security expert Bill Gertz, a Russian Akula class nuclear attack submarine patrolled the waters of the Gulf of Mexico for a month over the summer. The Akula’s job is to find and destroy US ballistic missile subs, known in Navy parlance as “boomers.” It can also fire cruise missiles with a range of nearly 2,000 miles.

More troubling is that the Navy, whose job it is to detect enemy subs with satellites, ocean sensors and warning nets, and antisubmarine aircraft, had no idea the Akula was in the Gulf until after it was gone. And with a major US boomer sub base at King’s Bay, Georgia, the report is all the more disturbing. Continue reading “Are we still providing for the common defense?” →