President Obama’s preoccupation with health care “reform,” publicity tours and jinxing Democratic Party campaigns has left him little time to be the nation’s chief executive.  That includes his responsibility to protect the country.

Obama’s negligence towards the nation’s digital information grid is nothing short of criminal.  The cyber environment is not only the nation’s central nervous system, it’s also a battlefield on which foreign attacks are constant.

Consider the disruption caused by three airplanes crashing into as many buildings in 2001.  A coordinated cyberattack in just a couple of American cities would shut down the entire nation – possibly for years.

World War 3 may well be even more global than it’s predecessors.  It will also be more quickly fought and, unlike WWI and II, it WILL be fought within the United States.
Welcome To World War 3

A new sub-unified command – Cyber Command – was to begin initial operational capability last October.  This command, to be located at Fort Meade, Maryland alongside the National Security Agency, would have the responsibility for protecting the digital networks of the military and the intelligence community.  Homeland Security would be responsible for other government networks and commercial vendors would be responsible for those they maintain – like businesses and residential systems.

In the four months that this administration HAS DONE NOTHING, the very real threat of cyber attack from foreign government and criminal adversaries continues.

Earlier this week, The New York Times published a piece entitled “Survey of Executives Finds a Growing Fear of Cyberattacks” in which the following excerpt appears: “A survey of 600 computing and computer-security executives in 14 countries suggests that attacks on the Internet pose a growing threat to the energy and communication systems that underlie modern society.“

Yet, the President does nothing.  And, of COURSE, should there be a seismic communications network failure due to a foreign cyberattack, we KNOW the President will (1) blame George W. Bush and (2) call it an intelligence failure.

I repeat a passage from a post in November:

The president is – once again – negligent when it comes to a critical issue of national security.  He doesn’t care. He has paid only lip (or teleprompter) service to the subject and reverted to his socialist domestic agenda. He is – once again – allowing politics to intrude on a critical national security.  He is incapable of focusing on more than one topic at a time. He is encouraging his ECONOMIC advisers to intrude on an essential aspect of national defense.

What good is health care reform if the Chinese (or Russians, Iranians, North Koreans, Muslim extremists, international crime organizations, hackers, etc) can invade our digital information resources and damage, destroy or steal the medical records of millions of Americans?

What good are stimulus funds for giant banks and financial houses if their vaults can be ransacked by adversaries half a world away?

How useful will it be for us to “go green” or reduce petroleum consumption if a foreign power can shut down America’s power plants and industrial infrastructure with strategic and coordinated keystrokes?

There is also precedent for hacking into news organizations and election authorities.  The news gets distorted enough as it is, imagine if an adversary either altered online information or denied access to it.

A REAL president would command.

A REAL president would recognize a threat to the nation and implement procedures and practices to defend against those threats.

Barack Obama is doing none of this.

Barack Obama – Community Activist In Chief – is no REAL president.