Many of us are concerned, and with good reason, about President  Obama’s lack of war strategy in Afghanistan. Today President Obama met with his national security team, but refrained from making a decision on the reshaped military strategy for the Afghanistan War. During the meeting, the Obama administration dodged the question of whether the President has been stalling on Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for more soldiers. Today the White House also reported that the President will not be making a decision on an Afghan war strategy for at least a few weeks. American soldiers are dying NOW. General McChrystal became the top General in Afghanistan over the summer, and until last night, Obama has had no interaction with him since he submitted a request for40,000 more troops. It would seem that the President does not have the Afghan war as one of his top priorities, as it should be. Instead, he has been spending his time pushing to make Chicago the location for the 2016 Olympics! And while the President wastes his time on such things, hundreds of men and women die in Afghanistan because there aren’t enough troops to win the war.

McChrystal warned that the mission in Afghanistan could fail without more troops in his Aug. 30 classified assessment, which was followed by the troop request.

Last Thursday, details emerged of a frightening new version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009. The bill was originally authored by Senator Jay Rockfeller D-W.Vmonths earlier. but If passed, the bill would give President Obama emergency control of the Internet, and furthermore may give him the power to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks.

“In the original bill they empowered the president to essentially turn off the Internet in the case of a ‘cyber-emergency,’ which they didn’t define,” said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which represents the telecommunications industry.
This is a most frightening development. If this bill is signed into law, it will be a huge violation of the First Amendment. Proponents of the bill argue it will help prevent terrorist’s access to our water, electricity, banking, traffic lights, and electronic health records in the event of a cyber-emergency, but do we absolutely have to sacrifice our liberties in the process? It is our duty to improve our national security, and in the present day and age it is very important; but giving the President the power to shut down citizen’s access to the internet is certainly not necessary.