One Nation, Under Attack by Grant R. Jeffrey

Author:Grant R. Jeffrey [Jeffrey, Grant R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-73109-8
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

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America’s Enemies Choose Their Point of Attack

Waging War on Our Country’s Most Vulnerable Flank

Military strategists know the importance of protecting an army’s flank. An enemy will hesitate to attack at the point where the opponent is strongest. Instead, the enemy will take advantage of an unguarded or weaker spot in the opponent’s line of defense. This is just as true in sports as it is in war. Now, we see that this is true of the war being waged against the American Empire.

Few enemy nations would be foolish enough to attempt a frontal assault against the United States. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, America launched two wars against suspected complicit regimes. It took two presidential administrations to get it done, but eventually a team of U.S. Navy SEALs tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden, the country’s number one enemy.

So a military assault against America would be far too costly to an enemy in armaments, troops, and the money it takes to finance an invasion. Any direct military engagement would be almost guaranteed to fail. So those who are committed to America’s downfall sought a way to attack America’s flank. They looked for a soft spot in America’s national health. Where could an enemy probe a vital area and find weakness in order to gain a foothold and eventually leverage America’s weakness in the enemy’s favor?

International financiers and their allies found a weak spot: the U.S. economy.

For decades, America’s leaders lacked the moral backbone to put an end to the looming disaster of deficit spending. It has been too easy to borrow money to finance government programs, many of them designed to attract a voting bloc and to reward campaign donors or home-district supporters. Overspending is financed by borrowing, with the underlying assumption that the national economy would continue to grow and employ increasing numbers of taxpayers who would pay not only for current (for them) government spending but also to make up the shortfalls in revenue from prior generations.

Simple reasoning, however, reveals that compounding debt year after year for forty or more years will dig a hole that is too deep to ever climb out of. But America’s leaders have not been willing to face the truth, not to mention being unwilling to tell the voters the truth. Each administration creates problems for the next administration to clean up, and then the succeeding administration does the same thing. Congress is just as guilty of the same pattern.

We have reached the place where the national debt is so massive we will never recover from it. That is the hard fact that has handed America’s enemies the weak spot they need. The American military is still strong. In fact, it is unmatched. But the economy is limping badly, and when you examine America for signs of strength and weakness, you have to conclude that the country is ripe for the picking. A stronger and more economically robust nation or political force could exploit our weakness to their advantage, destroying the American Empire in the process.

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