Fair enough and deeply felt. This is why I would ask that we wait. Showing alarm is not going to play our hand well. We have many options, and regardless my political affiliations and leanings, the President is being advised. The men at the top, no matter what we want to think of them personally, are not as ignorant as we would like to paint them out to be. The United States has mastered the international stage of political stealth and intrigue. We have so many cards in our hands, and if we share a little of the spoils here and there, raising a fuss for the roar of this or that crowd, it is for our own nations benefit. We must be patient, knowing we can not intervene with the force of armies ready to lock horns in in titanic struggle on another Eastern Front with the Russians. It would destroy our nation as we know it, and thus the reason why our leaders would never contemplate this move. The new reductions in force are actually movements to different arenas of concern where consultations have been made with the Council of Foreign Relations and many others. We too are learning to think for a longer term, and the future is not an archaic struggle of men in a common trench, but in space, outer or cyber, special forces, and finance. We must guard these strengths closely and use them as the valuable tools that they are to contain future aggression, never letting others dictate how and where we will meet them on the battlefield. We must invite all to be patient, trust in our leaders that are advising the President, and show no fear.
We must assume the most dangerous of defensive positions, "Wind." As Sensei Stephen K. Hayes would write in his book of 1980, "Ninja: Spirit of the Shadow Warrior."
