It was inevitable that in an era when John Kerry is the secretary of state and the State Department basically runs the Pentagon, America’s adversaries would begin to test U.S. resolve. Hence, the latest news out of Iran should not surprise:
Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said Tuesday that Iranian flotilla of warships entered the Pacific Ocean after passing through the Malaga region, one of the most important waterways around the world. On the sidelines of a national ceremony, Sayyari told IRNA that the Iranian flotilla is to be berthed at a Chinese port with the objective of strengthening friendly relations between Tehran and Beijing.
Admiral James Lyons, commander of U.S. Pacific Command during the Carter administration, has noted wryly that he had more ships under his command in the Pacific Ocean at the time than we now do in the entire U.S. Navy. It’s hard to take seriously the American willingness to project power when President Obama, as veteran reporter Bob Woodward suggests, appears to lack seriousness about U.S. national security. Alas, when he spoke of a pivot toward Asia, Obama appears not to have been talking about the United States. But, just as with the China-North Korea axis, American interests will pay a high price.
Yeah, but how large was the DHS back then? Obama is definitely willing to project power – just not at our enemies.
DHS. Department of Human Services? nDepartment of Homeland Security? nOn the one hand, China is still part of the Marxist-Islamic Alliance. On the other hand, China is a practical country that is not willing to risk destruction for the sake of what it considers virtue. Virtue for Iran and North Korea means destroying Israel, a country that they think has crossed the boundary it shares with them every year and annexed more territory (I'm being poetic). China is realistic enough to know that Israel is not a threat.
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Malaga is in Spain. Famous for its flamenco stuff. Also maybe a kind of heavy sweetened kosher wine. On the other hand, the Strait of Malacca is a strategic SE Asian waterway through which passes much or most of the world oil tanker traffic.Layers of fact-checkers and proof-readers!
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