Security?

In an article titled, "Obama: Bordering on Disaster" Hugh Hewitt poses the argument that Obama's open border crisis is putting America in danger.  The author opens his argument by referencing the Westphalian Sovereignty, the concept that all nation stets have sovereignty over their territory without any interference by neighboring states, and that each would respect each other's borders.  But due to globalization and economic strains this concept has become challenged.

His reason for doing this was to compare the security of the borders to what now currently exists.  He stated that open borders were a threat to states by facilitating political upheaval, economic chaos etc.. He argues that Obama's strategies to not secure borders and not respect other's shows both his incompetence and his weakness as a leader.  I agree.  I feel that instead of standing up to protect America's interest as a standard to the world he is doing everything to make it as equal as other nations.  You can't just leave your borders open to any and everyone.  Obama does not show face. There has to be a standard.  There have to be boundaries that you don't cross as a leader.  Other countries need to see that in him.  It manifests powerful leadership.

He goes on to support his argument by outlining three major border conflicts that clearly illustrate Obama's incompetence.  The first crisis was the fall of Ukraine in 2013.  Through the weak leadership displayed Putin was able to go in and overtake Ukraine.  If President Obama showed face and stood up to him Putin probably wouldn't have done what he did.  Instead we appeared weak and apathetic to our allies.  Who is going to look out for them.  Obama took forces out of Europe and Europe looked to us as protection from their adversaries.  He goes on to mention the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and how the President boasted about ending the "dumb war".  The situation became worse than before.  And last but not least he mentions the issue of opening up our borders to illegal immigrants. There is danger to doing this.  It makes America appear weak, again there's no standard.

I agree with this author, our President would rather act out of ignorance rather than make conscious decisions based on principle and good old moral leadership.  His actions not only make him appear weak it becomes a direct reflection on America as a whole.