NOW C'MON. DO WE REALLY NEED TO RE-LEARN WHAT WE DID IN FRIGGIN' KINDERGARTEN!?

Probably not, if you're just some guy living somewhere between the coasts. But if you're The President, sadly, apparantly you do. From AWR Hawkins:

President Ronald Reagan’s administration operated in light of Barry Goldwater’s mantra, “peace through strength.” The belief was simple: a strong military and the willingness to use it will prevent wars rather than incite them. After all,

human nature dictates that people rarely, if ever, pick a fight with someone who will successfully retaliate. This is why bullies and thugs are always looking for someone whom they can easily overcome.

Common sense, no?

Yet President Barack Obama has turned Goldwater’s premise on its head. Instead of promoting strength as a way of ensuring peace, Obama is promoting weakness through his “hand of friendship” to every rogue nation and struggling tyrant who will shake it. Regardless of what Obama’s ultimate goals with such spinelessness might be, it begs the question: can there be “peace through weakness”?

Read the track record on that one.

Can you guess?