Why speak softly, and carry a big stick is not enough

As the revelations about Benghazi are showing us, we, or should I say our Commander in Chief was unwilling to USE that big stick

US Officials said they NEEDED PERMISSION From Libyan Government for Overflights During the 9-11 Attacks–

Former Assistant Defense Secretary Bing West told America Live:

“For the United States military to say that they were 480 miles away and they couldn’t do anything, and they couldn’t move one aircraft in 8 hours? I’d say it’s time to relieve a lot of people in the chain of command… If your ambassador has been either killed or captured, and is missing at the hands of terrorists, you do not ask any country for “Mother may I?” before you come across the border to save your own.’”

Go read the rest, my head is about to explode here. The problem is this, we have to USE that big stick, and make no mistake, no one has a stick as big as ours, no one has better trained troops. I was talking to two veterans at the airport the other day, and they agreed with me that Teddy Roosevelt forgot the most important part of the Big Stick policy. That part is that when you use that stick, you use it with such devastating force that any nation will think long and hard before screwing with you again. Basically, we are wasting our military if our “leaders” are too gutless or clueless to utilize it properly! Basically, what I am saying is this. I want everyone to fear us, I do not want us to bully anyone, but, I want any leader, anywhere on the globe to piss themselves when they think of crossing us.