Washington DC Shooter Shuts-Down U.S. Supremacy
Posted by Chriss
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The September 16th attack on the Naval Command Headquarters at the Washington D.C. Naval Yard is a major a defeat for the projection of international supremacy by the United States. One or more shooters managed to get on the secure compound and into the building housing the Chief of Naval Operations to kill 12 Americans. This event will have profound psychological and political impacts by demonstrating the center U.S. military power is now part of the global battleground.
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President
Obama tried to deflect today’s Naval Yard attack by labeling it as “yet another mass
shooting.” But according to the Navy, the Naval Sea Systems
Command (NAVSEA)
headquarters building where the shooting took place is supposed to be an
ultra-high-security facility, because it is houses the Chief of Naval
Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert and is the largest of the Navy’s five
system command centers.
NAVSEA
has a headquarters staff of 3,000 and an annual budget of almost $30 billion,
25% of the Navy’s entire funding. It has a total workforce of 50,000
civilian, military and contract support personnel that engineers, builds, buys
and maintains the combat systems and facilities for the Navy’s ships and submarines
around the world.
At the
time of the attack, Admiral Greenert was directly in charge of the 14 ships of the USS Nimitz and Harry S. Truman
aircraft carrier task forces, the two guided-missile cruisers Gettysburg and
San Jacinto, the two Marine Expeditionary Forces on the USS Kearsarge and San
Antonio Amphibious Landing Ships, and the three submarines preparing to attack
Syria. Televisions around the world beaming the top American admiral
fleeing from his own headquarters will no doubt severely undermine the
confidence of our allies and embolden the will of our enemies.
Russian
President Vladimir Putin, who commands at least 4,502 nuclear weapons, took advantage of the
U.S. weakness to announce today that the Russian naval presence in the
Mediterranean Sea will be boosted to 11 ships with the addition Yamal amphibious landing ship and Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier.
Alexey
Pushkov, a member of the Russian parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, in a
reference to the recent sarcastic New York Times op-ed by Russian President
Vladimir Putintweeted:
“A new shootout at Navy headquarters in Washington — a lone gunman and 7
corpses.Nobody’s even surprised anymore.” He added: “A clear
confirmation of American exceptionalism.”
California
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, who as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence understands the magnitude of damage to
America’s standing in the world from today’s successful attack, tried to help her President
deflect criticism of
his leadership by calling for new gun-control laws. “When will enough
be enough?” Feinstein said in a statement Monday evening. “Congress
must stop shirking its responsibility and resume a thoughtful debate on gun
violence in this country,” she said. “We must do more to stop this
endless loss of life.”
This
same gun control argument was made upon taking office in 1993 by former
President Clinton to justify forbidding U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines
from carrying their firearms for personal protection on military bases.
This proved disastrous when U.S. Army major and psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan went on a jihadist mass murdering
spree at Fort Hood Texas on November 5, 2009 to fatally kill 13 people and
injured more than 30 others. Hasan’s rampage did not end until he was shot by an off-base civilian
policewoman. Soldiers bitterly complained that a terrorist would face
more return fire if they attacked a Texas Wal-Mart than the gunman faced at
Fort Hood, home of the heavily armed and feared 1st Cavalry Division
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But as
the sun went down over Washington DC, our nation looked under siege. Law
enforcement sources reported that two possible shooters were still at large and
the Secret Service is
on high alert. Capitol streets were lit-up with the flashing lights of
police, Homeland Security, fire department and military emergency
vehicles. SWAT team members armed with military-style assault rifles were
posted at the intersection of Constitution and Delaware avenues to intercept
any traffic headed toward the United States Senate.
Three
weeks ago, President Barack Obama sought to flex his stature by leading a
robust international and domestic crusade against the brutality of Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad. But quickly his international support
collapsed, and then his domestic support crumbled. What had begun as a
foreign policy adventure with a weak power has morphed into a new Cold War
confrontation has that revived Russia’s ambition of again being seen as a
military equal of the United States. How could President Obama imagine
that today one or two shooters could turn the center of United States military
power into a battleground and shut down America’s foreign supremacy?
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