Deterioration of global security posture

Any administration’s national security strategy written for public consumption inevitably involves platitudes, vacuous rhetoric and self-congratulation. But the strategy announced last week for President Barack Obama’s final two years in office sets new records in all these categories. As a sleep aid, it cannot be underestimated. Indeed, diverting attention from America’s rapidly deteriorating global strategic posture was likely a prime objective, as were his answers at last week’s news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In her defense of the strategy, National Security Adviser Susan Rice criticized “alarmism” by Obama’s critics, arguing in a speech that we do not face “existential” threats as we did in World War II and the Cold War.

Obama has weakened US globally