The real threat to our security

Global warming is the worst threat to the United States of America and the world today. It can kill in a heartbeat and change the way we warm up our homes in the dead of winter. 

Russia, China, Iran, ISIS and the rest of the Muslim world,wishing to expand their borders everywhere and form a world caliphate is not the big problem. The big problem is climate change, or, as some scientists refer to it: "the four seasons."

Marine Corps Commandant, General Joseph Dunford, said that Russia and China are our biggest threats, in that order, and added that cyber threats are also significant.

What does he know? He looks at the world through military glasses and all he sees are rockets, cannons, warships, and foreign troops poised and ready for war. All he hears are chants from Iran, "Death to Israel! Death to America!" and he fails to hear the sound of ice melting in the Arctic and polar bear babies being orphaned due to the incessant warming of summer. All he knows is that we are losing the cyber war with China and ISIS is cutting off the heads of foreigners and a few journalists.

The world is getting too hot, dammit.

China may have stolen tens of millions of records on government workers, but what are they going to do with them, Shanghai them for better paying jobs overseas? Big deal--we have too many government workers as it is--please take them.

And Russia may be flying 39 miles off the coast of California while Putin wished Obama a happy Fourth of July, but they don't scare us. If they were going to try something, they would have already done it .  .  .  I think.

Right at this moment, President Obama is getting his TelePrompter locked and loaded with words; words that will elucidate a full range of options about what he says he might do if China doesn't behave itself.

 I smirk my snarky smirk as I picture a frightened Xi Jinping, China's General Secretary of the Communist Party and of the Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission and President of the People's Republic of China. In other words, a guy with lots of titles and no chest to pin them on (or is that medals?). 

I picture Xi shaking as Obama addresses the American people as he reads big words off his hacked TelePrompter: 

"We will not tolerate China's abject disregard for this latest hacking incident. I have drawn a red line in the sand, and if China crosses it, I will, without hesitation, draw another red line and another, until Xi Jinping and the Chinese people realize that I have more than enough red line marker in our arsenal. Thank you, and may God bless the United States of America."

That should scare the Moo Goo Gai Pan right out of him, or maybe not.

Dunford is the object of a nomination hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. When asked how the United States should respond to Chinese cyber attacks he said, "From my perspective, if confirmed, my role will be to provide the president with a full range of options to deal with these cyber attacks, which is what the OPM breach was."

Obama has historically rejected plans offered by intelligence and military leaders to conduct retaliatory cyber counterattacks on China. Obama prefers a legal and diplomatic approach. 

That makes perfect sense. We can take China to court and sue them, or diplomatically woo them over some red wine and spicy Szechuan pork (oh wait, Muslims don't eat pork--sorry, Mr. President--we'll do beef) and that ought to convince them that it isn't nice to hack your friend's computers. I'm sure they will feel guilty and change their hacking ways.

Dunford seems to disagree with the Obama philosophy as evidenced by this statement: "One of the keys to our nation's success is our ability to rapidly project power around the globe."


Obama's philosophy might read like this: "One of the keys to our nation's success is our ability to take the power away from "the man" and put it into the hands of the people, especially the Executive branch of the government."

If this administration doesn't scare you and global warming does, you're not paying attention or you're a college student whose knowledge of science, history and current events is on par with that of a goldfish. And this makes you the real threat to our security.



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