How has the military been decimated? The administration has difficulty naming the enemy because it was never about the enemy for them. It's about perpetual war and feeding the military-industrial complex.
Here's a place for you to start your study of how Obama is destroying the military...
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/dick-cheney-sees-enormous-long-term-damage-obamas-military-cutsIf you hate Dick Cheney (and I presume you do), then you can find multiple sources in multiple places (liberal, if you'd like) as to how Obama is cutting military pay, has fired multiple Generals, has removed officers from the field of battle, has strangled the troops in the field with debilitating ROE, etc., etc., etc.....
(There are plenty of people on this forum who have the stats if you need some help finding them).
Perhaps, but I was actually deployed twice, and the second time was to Afghanistan while Obama was already in office. If there was some massive hindrance in our effectiveness being caused by Washington I wasn't aware of it.
Your "awareness" or lack of awareness of the reality of what Obama was doing is irrelevant. He has decimated the military, and seeks to do more.
We have gone far beyond the point of protecting ourselves, and it is my belief that creating more hatred towards the United States through our continued meddling is actually increasing the likelihood of us being targeted again. We lost 3000 lives and a few buildings on 9/11; I think we have repaid that debt tenfold. How many people need to die before we have adequately defended ourselves from an attack that happened 14 years ago? We've been over this before; extremists in the Middle East do not possess the means to kill all or even many of us. You're more likely to be struck by lighting multiple times than to be killed by a terrorist. You also don't seem to acknowledge the fact that it only takes a few nut jobs to pull off a successful terrorist attack. No amount of war is going to remove the possibility of us being attacked by terrorists. I would completely support dealing with them however we needed to if that changed and it was actually possible for us to prevent them from causing truly devastating damage. This might surprise you, but I advocated for the obliteration of Kim Jong Un and his entire power structure when he started threatening us with nuclear attacks.
The issues we face with extremist Islam are different than the issues we faced during World War 2. The Japanese and German governments were in control of the war effort against the United States. Dropping a nuke is not going to end the struggle with Islam because there is not a government that can make the call for extremism to end. We're not going to scare these people into submission. If we ramp up our war effort and start causing a lot more devastation they will only feel more justified in what they are doing. It will make the extremism worse because there will be even more people that are desperate and angry at the United States. Due to issues of perspective they cannot see the fact that we are the good guys. They can only see the barrels of our guns and the devastation of our bombs.
I've heard all the pacifist/isolationist arguments before, but IMO, they are dangerously naïve. If it were just a few nutjobs killing people, your argument might be valid that we can't do a blasted thing about it. But there are sponsors of terror (which Obama has tried to make his BFF's), there are organizations which Obama has embraced, and they can be destroyed, if we have the will to do it.
It's clear that you are obsessed with the idea of indiscriminate bombing, ignoring the fact that I have never promoted it, but the bombing we are doing to destroy ISIS is basically worthless. When we bombed to get rid of Saddam Hussein, it worked. The American military has the capability of destroying centers of terror (like Saddam's palaces) without destroying millions of people.
As for "scaring these people into submission,"....... who's suggesting that? I'm in support of killing them, or taking them prisoner and never letting them out. As long as they are at war with us (as they are), they are still prisoners of war.
Once again, I find your POV exceptionally naïve and unaware of the real dangers that Islamic terrorists pose. I'm quite sure that it's because you support Obama's position that Islamic murderers and thugs are NOT our enemy.
And once again, I see in your words no solution to the threat we face. Only denial that it exists.
The real world doesn't work that way, Dex. We have an enemy, and they DO want us dead.
You only think I denied it because you misinterpreted what I said.
If that makes you feel better to blame it all on me (you're good at that), more power to you.