THE OBAMA MILITARY LEADERSHIP – AT 9:38 A.M. ET:  The Obama administration has fired a number of admirals and generals who apparently don't understand that a new world order is being envisioned at the Chicago White House.  This is what we're getting.  From the Washington Times: 

The Obama administration’s ballyhooed military “pivot” to Asia is running into some frank talk from the top U.S. commander in the Pacific.

Three years after the Pentagon said it was de-emphasizing Europe in favor of the Asia-Pacific region, Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III said this week that U.S. dominance has weakened in the shadow of a more aggressive China.

“Our historic dominance that most of us in this room have enjoyed is diminishing, no question,” Adm. Locklear, chief of U.S. Pacific Command, said Wednesday at a naval conference in Virginia.

Although Adm. Locklear said it is obvious that Chinese military power is growing, he suggested that it is unclear whether China will seek to be a hard adversary to the U.S. in the long term, so Washington should be working overtime on steering Beijing toward a cooperative security posture.

“China is going to rise, we all know that,” Adm. Locklear said, as reported by Defense News, which included several quotes from his speech at the annual Surface Navy Association meeting.

“[But] how are they behaving? That is really the question,” the admiral said, adding that the Pacific Command’s goal is for China “to be a net provider of security, not a net user of security.”

COMMENT:  Yessiree, let's make nice to China, hoping, as we're hoping with Iran, that it will turn around in the face of American weakness and Obama's "outreach," and become a good neighbor.  Just like Russia. 

The writer Max Boot, one of the good guys, argues that the pendulum will swing back the other way, and that America will become stronger again, and involved.  I do hope so, but I wonder how a nation so damaged by the Obamans can spring back in time to avoid permanent damage. 

January 17, 2014