Jim Ward For Congress

The results of Tuesday’s primaries show the public is hungry for the right kind of change.  Among other things, we know that voters are willing to put their trust in successful businesspeople who have created jobs, balanced budgets and made a payroll.   Americans have lost patience with expensive bailouts and intrusive government interference with our personal lives.  These results are great news for our campaign and our message to bring common sense, real world experience  to Washington, D.C.

Ronald Reagan spoke of peace through strength.  It was an effective strategy.  Yet the Obama administration is effectively bringing about war through its weak foreign policy of appeasement particularly in the Middle East and most acutely as it relates to Israel.

President Obama is the Neville Chamberlain of our time.  He has repeatedly made overtures to extreme regimes like Iran that signal an overall weakness in the United State’s resolve to stand by its allies in the region.  This appeasement strategy has given extreme Islam in particular the opening they have needed to begin the next chapter of Jihad and both Hamas and Hezbollah are taking great advantage.  In addition, these Obama olive branches have had the effect of fueling a global anti-Semitic movement that feeds a “hypocrisy and a biased rush to judgment” in the words of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Obama administration, through its weakness, has effectively created an extremely volatile situation in the Middle East, giving radical Islam the bold encouragement it needs to act out, forcing Israel into justified unilateral actions.  The current scenario, as it is shaping up, will provoke even more violence proving that Barack Chamberlain’s weakness will lead to war. Israel has a right to defend herself and her recent actions against Hamas, who is smuggling Iranian rockets and missiles into Gaza, are more than justified.  We owe Prime Minister Netanyahu a public apology for our lack of support but more importantly, we owe Israel our dedicated commitment to stand by her side and be ready and willing to take whatever action is necessary to rid the region of those who profess to destroy her.

We can achieve peace through strength.  We need to have the leadership that can understand this strategy and the character as a nation to defend our ally Israel.  We also need to have the geo-political foresight to understand what Prime Minister Netanyahu has warned the world.  “I...