Is Obama Making Us Safer?

The better question might be - "is it his goal to make us safer?" By any objective, logical standard it would be hard to make the case that he's actually trying to make the country safer.
A brief review of some recent Obama highlights on this topic:

• the world-wide, non-stop apology tour seems like it will never end. Obama seems determined to apologize for everything that happened before he took office, and to confess the sins of every American except himself and his ideological soul-mates. This demonstrates nothing but weakness to our adversaries.
• he's been actively waving olive branches at the world's despots, including Kim Jong Il, Ahmedenijad, Ortega, Chavez and the Castro brothers. These tyrants have returned the favor by launching missiles, arresting an American journalist, continuing to develop nuclear weapons and berating America at every opportunity.
• his Secretary of Homeland Security - who can't call a terrorist a terrorist, but can call Americans extremists and terrorists if they happen to disagree with Obama - has just informed us that crossing our borders illegally is not a crime.
• Obama himself decided to release CIA memos that detail the interrogation techniques that those in the field protecting our country will and will not use. This will directly assist those who wish to do our country harm. Obama conveniently failed to release the memos that detail the intelligence gained thru the interrogation techniques he so desperately wanted to end.
• Obama has left the door open to prosecuting those in the prior adminstration who successfully kept this country safe. This will have a chilling effect on the intelligence community - what field agent is going to take the chance in this environment of ideological witch hunts that he or she will be prosecuted later if they interrogate aggressively?

There can be no logical, rationale argument made that anything Obama has done recently will make this country safer. If someone can make that case - logically, rationally and fact-based - I'm sure all Americans would be willing to consider it. But I doubt that any Obamaton will offer anything but ideology, emotion and anti-Bush nonsense in support of his approach.

The thing that really betrays the Obama agenda is the ludicrous assertion that releasing the CIA memos about enhanced interrogation techniques makes us "safer and stronger". Al Qaeda attacked America and American interests multiple times in many places long before we invaded Iraq or used any enhanced interrogation techniques. Our use of such techniques did not cause the terrorist attacks (excuse me, man-caused disasters), and eliminating such techniques will not reduce the probability of attacks at all.

Only if one believes that Al Qaeda's goal was to get us to stop using enhanced interrogation techniques could you believe that eliminating them will stop them from trying to attack us. Is there anyone out there who really believes that?