Matt Drudge’s top headline asks “IS HE DISARMING AMERICA?” with a somewhat frightening photograph of Barack Obama above the text. The short answer to his question? Yes.

Since Obama’s taken office we’ve witnessed defense budget cuts even as entitlement spending is hiked and new welfare programs are created. We’ve ended the production of advanced F-22 fighters and cut entire advanced weapons programs. Apparently we couldn’t find room in the record-high budgets.

In an effort to appease Russia we’ve also broken promises to our Eastern European allies, dropping plans to build a missile defense shield to protect said allies from Iranian strikes and Russian aggression. The move left both allies and the United States more vulnerable. We received less than nothing in return from Moscow.

Then we recently watched as Obama agreed to reduce our nuclear weapons stockpile even as Russia and North Korea work to export nuclear weapons programs to countries like Iran and now possibly Venezuela.

And now we’re told that even a chemical or biological weapons attack on the United States, even one that could leave tens of thousands of Americans dead, wouldn’t prompt Obama to launch a nuclear missile against the offending country.

So yes, Barack Obama is disarming the United States. But why? He’s a radical leftist community organizer from Chicago. He doesn’t live in the real world and he never has.

He’s a graduate of the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Policy, betting on blind and dangerous appeasement tactics to restrain aggressive enemies. And he does so at the expense of our traditional allies.

Obama views America on the same plane as any other country, which is why he’s referred to us as “arrogant” and went on a global apology tour. He, like many on the left, views America more as the problem than the solution. He outright dismisses the belief of “American exceptionalism” as simply the same jingoism expected from any nation’s citizenry.

Put simply, he doesn’t view us as the arsenal of democracy, as Franklin Roosevelt said. Obama views the United States as a controversial, potentially dangerous nation which would better serve the goal of peace and justice defanged.