Bolton: Obama Wants Stronger Welfare, Weaker Military.

Bolton: Obama Wants Stronger Welfare, Weaker Military.(Newsmax).

Proposed Pentagon budget cuts that “downsize the military” have to do with President Barack Obama’s aim to fund “welfare at home” rather than maintain military preparedness overseas, John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, charged today.

Bolton told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV that Obama previewed a questionable strategy “to fundamentally transform America” during his 2008 election campaign.

“This military budget is part of that exercise,” Bolton charged. “He wants to downsize the military, quite apart from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he wants to leave his successors with a smaller American military, and he wants to spend more money on welfare programs at home.”

Bolton noted the best war is one that's never fought, but the best way to prevent wars from being fought is "through a demonstration of strength so that the adversary says, 'I'm not even going to think about going there.'"

As the U.S. military is downsized, he warned, "our adversaries are encouraged to think that they can take risky, belligerent actions and get away with it."

Bolton said Congress and the nation need a debate not just on the budget, but on "whether we want a declining, withdrawing, less powerful, less assertive, less capable United States, because that's the direction the president's moving in.""He doesn't want to say it, but that's what this budget is all about," Bolton said.

He charged that Obama has been whittling away at the nation's military capabilities since his firm term.Read the full story at NEWSMAX.