What guys realize

    If you grow up a guy, you soon learn stuff.  You learn that you are bound to be in a fight every once in awhile.  Sometimes the other kid swings at you or shoves you down.  At such times you had better be ready to defend yourself, even if it’s furtive and you run away after a defensive move.  And you learn that talk only goes so far with some others.  Talk all you want, but if that person thinks you have insulted their sister or threaten them, they are going to get physical.  At such times it is also possible to avoid violence by showing a strong readiness to fight.  Only then, do some opponents back down, having rethought the situation given that they might be in for some harm themselves.  This is about  the only way to dissuade a bully.

    USA faces a bully in Putin, who is taking what he wants at will and what he wills might include marionette strings for Europe.  Clearly, there are good suggestions for joining military maneuvers with Baltics all the way to Romania, threatening to send trainers to Ukraine if Vlady makes more moves on Eastern Ukraine.  Krauthammer has a dozen good suggestions.  Read them at nationalreview.com.  But will Obama?  I doubt he does anything much.  The reason is in his narcissism. Narcissists think they are the smartest guys in the room, that the world revolves around them, that they can talk and convince anyone of anything.  This explains why Obama knew beforehand about the fact that Obamacare would cost most people their doctors and policies, would cost at least $2500 more not less—yet he argued just the opposite.  No sane and cautious politician would do such a foolhardy stunt.  Likewise Obama thinks foolishly that he can simply scold Putin and make him stand down.  Not a chance, but only us humbler souls can see this. 

    And concerning our foreign policy, we need to project strength, lest we get beat up by every opportunist from the Ayatollahs to Kim Jung Un to Putin. Even the Dems now say that maybe Obama will be shocked into change.  I doubt it.  He will continue to think he can just persuade magically.  Meanwhile he wants to cut Defense from $678 B to $572 B.  Our only hope is to not succumb to this disarmament.

    Sarah Palin has more balls.  Obama just has golf balls.