If providing all Americans with decent, government-provided health care was the real objective of the Obama Administration, it might be a laudable, if ill-conceived and unrealistic proposal.

The president, and his henchmen in the Congress, will certainly provide some level of health care to Americans, but that health care will be sub-standard and rationed, despite their wailing to the contrary. But the danger of this program lies in the real intentions of the democrat's radical socialist agenda. The Obama Administration is hostile to the idea of American Exceptionalism. It views the United States as an Imperialist bully that has unfairly gathered the wealth of the world at the expense of the poor, the down-trodden, and the Third World.

In a recent speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Mr Obama indicated that he considered the United States to be only one nation among equals; no better than any other nation. To Mr Obama, there is no difference between the United States, where we enjoy a per capita GDP of $47,000, and the quaint little land-locked African nation of Burkina Faso (Per capita GDP of $1200). While it is demonstrably false that we are the same as all other nations, President Obama’s intention is that eventually we will be. It is the motivating factor to the new president’s agenda. Why else would he be so inclined to travel the world apologizing for our country?

Mr. Obama’s real objective is to make the United States the equal of all other countries in the world, not by raising the GDPs of all other countries through investment, free trade, fiscal and monetary incentives, but rather by destroying our economic strength. He has the perfect model to guide his actions. He is following the design of the Socialist Party in the United Kingdom, and following it to perfection.

At the end of WWII, the United Kingdom was a powerful nation, one of the Big Four (arguably the Big Three) of the United States, United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union. But, no sooner was the war over than the British people rejected the government of Winston Churchill and elected the Socialist Clement Atlee as Prime Minister. The Atlee government wasted no time in passing into law the National Health Service while at the same time nationalizing some industries (coal mining, for instance).

The key point of the National Health Service, as with Obamacare, is that the service is an entitlement. An entitlement is available to everyone who meets eligibility requirements. Naturally, the cost of providing “free” health care to all Britons exploded beyond all estimates, as all entitlements will do as people become aware that they can avail themselves of the public treasury to pay their bills.

The problem arises when a government must make a decision on how to allocate the scarce resources of the public treasury. The government of the UK had to cover the cost of the NHS, which was, after all an entitlement. The obvious area to make up the difference is in areas of the budget that are discretionary, areas where the government is not required to outlay money, such as defense. Defense spending is something a wise government should do, but is not required to do. And this is precisely where the British went to find the money to pay for the NHS.

The Royal Navy went from a near-equal of the U.S. Navy at the end of WWII, to the laughable contingent that sortied to the Falkland Islands in 1982. They went from a fleet of great fixed-wing aircraft carriers to the miniature carriers of the size of pre-World War II vessels and capable of carrying only a handful of small jump jets and helicopters. The current HMS Illustrious is tiny seen beside the Nimitz Class US carrier USS John C. Stennis, above left. The British made the conscious decision to step off the world stage as a major player, and accept the station of a second rate power subject to the depredations of more powerful nations. Today the government of the United Kingdom spends 5% of its budget on defense, while shelling out nearly one fifth of their budget on the National Health Service.

This is the dream of the Obama Administration. They want to cut the US down to size and ensure that we are no longer the world’s lone superpower. They are willing to expose our nation, our people, and our children to the mercy of those nations that will choose to use their national power in their own interests and not in our best interests. How better to affect that reduction in national strength but to impose Obamacare National Health Care on the American people?

The Obama Administration knows that once the American people get used to the idea that health care is “free,” it will be very hard to argue for raising the revenue to provide both health care and a viable defense. Defense will become a second rate budget item, and the United States will no longer be a power in the world.

Game, set, match Obama.