Annoying Distraction???

Check out this headline:

Pirates pose annoying distraction for Obama

By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters)

 

Annoying distraction? Is that all it is to President Obama, an annoying distraction? Here’s the first paragraph of the article:

“Ragtag teams of modern-day Blackbeards are posing an annoying distraction for Barack Obama, forcing him to add Somalia to an already long list of foreign policy challenges.”

 

Yo-ho-ho, a pirate’s life for me! It all sounds so romantic, doesn’t it? Eye patches, wooden legs, parrots on shoulders. Woohoo! Pass the popcorn!

 

Here’s the next paragraph: “American presidents are told to expect the unexpected, and Obama is seeing that this week. First it was a North Korean test of a ballistic missile last weekend. Now comes a swashbuckling high-seas standoff with armed renegades.”

 

First it was a little missile fired over Japan by a tyrannical dictator. Now its “a swashbuckling high-seas standoff with armed renegades.” Doesn’t the rest of the world know that the election of Obama was going to be the end of unrest in the world? When are these people going to put aside their own ambitions of world domination and let us get on with accomplishing peace in our time?

 

So here we are. Pirates (who, by the way, are Islamic terrorists) have hijacked American citizens on the high seas and it’s considered a distraction and described in flowery language of a by-gone era, almost longingly so. VP Biden says the US is working ‘around the clock’ to come up with a solution for the crisis. The clock should have never had to go all the way around to come up with a solution. Here’s the solution: decisive and aggressive use of force to defend American citizens. In this day and age of perceived rights and government involvement in almost every facet of our lives, we lose sight of what the government MUST do according to its Constitutional authority. Consider this, the preamble to the Constitution:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

 

Look a little further in the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8: “The Congress shall have the power to…provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States…(Paragraph 1), To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the Law of Nations (Paragraph 10)”.  Now I’m no Constitutional scholar but I think I can see the authority to rectify this situation; no working around the clock is necessary.

 

Our inaction to secure the blessings of liberty for these Americans is appalling. It is a show of weakness and the world is watching. The next line in the sand will encroach America a little more, and give more ground to those who seek our destruction.