By Katie Kieffer

Image credit: Alex Brandon/AP

“Not only is weakness provocative, but the perception of weakness on our part can be provocative as well,” warned Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, when he left the Pentagon on Dec. 15, 2006. Three years later, the “Christmas Day incident” is a haunting tribute to the truth in Rumsfeld’s words.

President Obama successfully attracted his wife, Michelle. However, when it comes to the Mating Dance of Peace, our President is using all the wrong techniques.

Our Chief Executive has portrayed an image of America as a cute, submissive nit-wit that makes Yemen-trained bombers drool. The President’s Trophy of Peace sits in the Whitehouse while American citizens are left to defend themselves from known terrorists on airplanes.

We’ve got the bling. We’ve got the ice. We’ve got a President who naively acts like terrorists are nice. Most of all, we’ve got strategy:

• Refuse to acknowledge the war on terror. Announce that the “Christmas Day incident” was the work of an “isolated extremist” and treat Northwest Flight 253 wanna-be-bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmultallab, as a U.S. criminal instead of a terrorist – “rewarding” him with an attorney and civilian court trial over an appropriate military interrogation. Investigators deem Abdulmultallab a cohort of Al-Qaida extremists, but our President chooses to laugh this off.

Terrorism in America is becoming similar to celebrity extortion in the U.S. in this sense: As it becomes an increasingly low-risk crime, it will be attempted at a higher rate and with greater boldness.

• Abandon the Yemen Embassy - American-protected soil. This is a “surrender in advance” to terrorists as Dennis Prager noted on his talk show and a “victory for Al-Qaeda,” says Bill Kristol.

• Spill your guts to the world: Since his first day as President, Obama has advocated to share U.S. federal security secrets with the world. On Dec. 29, 2009 he recommended the release of up to 400 million pages of previously classified Cold War-era secrets and eliminated the intelligence community’s ability to block public release of certain documents. Steven Aftergood, director of the Project of Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists warns that this move “has tremendous potential to reduce the level of secrecy throughout the government.”

• Nominate shady TSA leader: The White House has nominated Erroll Southers to lead the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Democrats are pushing for a quick January appointment. The Washington Post reports Southers’ appointment has raised eyebrows since he has: Provided “Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws.”

Southers reportedly hacked into confidential private databases to obtain information about “his wife and their son, who had begun living with the (wife’s) boyfriend.” Then, he misled Congress with regard to the details of this intrusion. When our country’s security is at stake, we need confidence in the TSA; a Southers appointment will further weaken the image of the U.S. abroad.

For America to stay safe and peaceful, our President needs to stop spoon-feeding terrorists “Sexy Os” for breakfast – the provocative messages and decisions of weakness that he proudly broadcasts to the world.

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