THE DOOMSDAY SCENARIO
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Michael Connelly
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Members of
the U.S. Military are calling it the “Doomsday Scenario” and that is a
completely accurate assessment of what is about to occur on November 23rd
of this year. Unless something changes in the next two weeks that day will mark
the beginning of the end of the United States military as the most powerful
fighting force in the world. The end result will be putting our nation and our
people in a position where we will be unable to effectively defend ourselves
against those who would destroy us.
Dismantling
our military has been something that the far left in this country has been
trying to do for decades, and now with the help of the Obama administration and
Congress they are about to be successful. It will occur as a result of the ill
advised and unconstitutional legislation agreed to by Congress in order to
avert a failure to raise the debt ceiling. A super committee of Congress was
appointed made up of six Republicans and six Democrats from both houses of
Congress that was given the task of finding and agreeing to $1.5 trillion in
spending cuts by November 23rd.
If the super
committee fails to come to agreement, then the legislation provides for an automatic
$1.2 trillion in cuts to be made. Approximately half of this amount will come
from the defense budget. This will be in addition to some $850 billion in cuts
that have already been made to the defense budget since Obama has taken office.
Some of these cuts have already taken place, or are scheduled to happen over
the next few years. Even Obama’s choice for Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta,
has said that these additional cuts triggered by the super committee’s failure
to act will be devastating to the military and our national security.
Exactly what
will happen to our military? The strength of the Army and Marine Corps will be
reduced by about 50%. The Air Force will lose two thirds of its fighters and
strategic bombers, while the Navy will have to mothball a number of ships
including two aircraft carrier groups. The Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force
will be at the smallest they have been in many years and the Navy will be
smaller than it was prior World War II.
Many
military bases will be closed, both at home and abroad, and the Navy will be
barely strong enough to patrol our own shores, much less make its presence felt
in the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, or close to China. This is happening at
exactly the same time that China is rapidly increasing its own military
strength including building an increasingly strong Navy. (This is all eerily
similar to the scenario I laid out in and my 2009 novel, “Amayehli: A Story of
America.”)
In addition
to the impact on national security, we can expect to see large increases in the
unemployment rate. Over the next 10 years hundreds of thousands of members of
the military will be thrown into an already dwindling job market. Thousands of
civilian employees who work at soon-to-be closed military bases will also lose
their jobs. The development of new weapons systems and equipment for the military
will virtually cease as will the upgrading of our current equipment and
weapons. This will undoubtedly put some defense contractors out of business,
and at the very least cause thousands of additional people to be out of work.
So, with a sagging U.S. economy in a dangerous world with countries like Iran
about to have nuclear weapons, our military is going to be gutted.
Of course,
is not going to stop there. Veterans are also going to see their benefits cut.
Pensions are going to shrink and many medical benefits are simply going to go
away. At the beginning of his Presidency, Obama proposed that members of the
military who were wounded in the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq should pay for
their own private insurance, and thus pay for their own medical treatment. The
outcry from the American people was so great that the idea was soon dropped,
but now Obama may get his way after all.
If the
Doomsday Scenario happens, and it appears it will, the people who have laid
their lives on the line to defend our country and its freedom will be punished
for their sacrifice. At the same time there are a large number of people who
will lose nothing. Members of Congress will not have their salaries or benefits
cut, and they will keep their generous pensions, even if they have served only
one term in office as compared to the minimum 20 years members of the armed
services have to serve to even qualify for a pension.
White House
staffers and Obama’s illegally appointed Czars and their staff members will
lose no pay or benefits, and this is true of most other Federal employees, but
then they will vote to re-elect Obama, while most military personnel and
families will not. Do you see a pattern here? I certainly do. By the way, does
anyone remember the proposal that Obama made during his campaign that there be
a Civilian Defense Force formed that would be as well funded and equipped as
the military? If we have a weak military then such a force will probably be
formed and be under the complete control of one person, Obama.
There is one
chance to stop this disaster. A committee in the House of Representatives is
working on proposals to stop the Doomsday Scenario from happening, and it has
bi partisan support. Everyone should write, call, or email their Senators and
Representatives to support this and keep our military intact. Here is a link to
a website that will help you contact your Congressional representatives: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/.This
is urgent.
