{"id":521,"date":"2008-11-26T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/obamas-national-security-appointments\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T03:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T10:00:57","slug":"obamas-national-security-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/26\/obamas-national-security-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s national security appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kossacks aren’t happy that Obama may keep Gates as Secretary of Defense<\/a>. <\/p>\n

More fuel for the belief that even Democrats think Democrats are weak on defense and only Republicans can serve as Secretary of Defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama may be considering steering a center-left foreign policy, as opposed to an extremely Left one. Another hint: his choice of Gen. Jim Jones for National Security Adviser.<\/a><\/p>\n

We’ll have to see how this goes, but at least there is a small ray of hope here and there<\/a> that the president-elect isn’t completely a captive of the loony Left.  What remains to be seen is if he understands the connection between national defense and a strong military that isn’t gutted to pay for social programs.  And, of course, we don’t know yet how he’ll handle himself in a crisis or challenge; unfortunately, his reflex seems to be inappropriate moral equivalence<\/a>, at least when on the campaign trail.   But maybe he’ll “grow in office”.<\/p>\n

Pray that he does.<\/p>\n

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