Timing, as they say, is everything, and not just for baseball players trying to hit a 95-mph fastball.  For example, if Hitler had come along 70 years later than he did, I have no doubt that he would have succeeded in conquering all of Europe.  One only has to look at how close he came, and that was in spite of all those nations and the U.S. aligned against him.  Today, much of Europe has no backbone, and I doubt that, in the wake of Iraq, Americans would have the collective will required to oppose Nazism.  It bears remembering that when we went to war against the Axis powers, FDR was never asked if he had an exit strategy.

While it’s true that our presidents must deal with a great number of issues other than war, war and national defense are at the top of the list.  Can anybody actually picture Barack Obama, a man born to be a left-wing social worker, as commander-in-chief?  Keeping America safe is simply not on Obama’s to-do list.  He has made that perfectly clear by several of his statements.  For instance, he insisted that John Kennedy got Nikita Khrushchev to pull Soviet missiles out of Cuba by sitting down and reasoning with him.  He obviously believes he will turn evil dictators into peaceful lambs by the sheer power of his personality. [more]