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January 05, 2010
Nuclear Woodstock
The delusional spirit of Woodstock is alive and well in the White House. Barack Hussein Obama, a far left ideologue, is determined to steer American nuclear power towards a more, um, delusional policy.
And to the Europeans who might be cheering Obama's move, please note that the only reason you can afford to live in your nanny states is because America has shouldered the burden of protecting you. It's American military might that rescued Europe from two world wars; it's American nuclear posture that halted Soviet expansion into Western Europe post WWII; and it is only through vigorous American power that Europe will be protected from newly emboldened Russia and the emerging threat of a nuclear Iran, which means a nuclear umbrella for transnational Caliphate Muslims.
This, from the Los Angeles Times, not exactly a Conservative publication:
President Obama's ambitious plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, posing a threat to one of his most important foreign policy initiatives.
Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world in a speech in Prague, Czech Republic, last April, pledging that the U.S. would take dramatic steps to lead the way. Nine months later, the administration is locked in internal debate over a top-secret policy blueprint for shrinking the U.S. nuclear arsenal and reducing the role of such weapons in America's military strategy and foreign policy.
Officials in the Pentagon and elsewhere have pushed back against Obama administration proposals to cut the number of weapons and narrow their mission, according to U.S. officials and outsiders who have been briefed on the process.
In turn, White House officials, unhappy with early Pentagon-led drafts of the blueprint known as the Nuclear Posture Review, have stepped up their involvement in the deliberations and ordered that the document reflect Obama's preference for sweeping change, according to the U.S. officials and others, who described discussions on condition of anonymity because of their sensitivity and secrecy.
Full story here.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at January 5, 2010 08:55 AM
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" ... The delusional spirit of Woodstock is alive and well in the White House. Barack Hussein Obama, a far left ideologue, is determined to steer American nuclear power towards a more, um, delusional policy ... "
see Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch site for today, where Obama wants to declassify the President's Daily Brief records, revealing extremely sensitive and classified information to the public, which the NYT will most likely make widely available.
Amazing that such an *open* administration, wouldn't allow the senate republicans to see the full text of the health care bill that he wanted pushed through.
Probably, the only thing that can stop this declassification of sensitive documents, is Obama's dislike for Jews and Israel, and if a broad declassification act is passed, it will also have to reveal Caspar Weinberger's 'classified' brief to Pollard's sentencing judge, and all the 'classified' arm-twisting information about pressures on Israel for all the concessions.
Posted by: exdemexlib at January 5, 2010 12:34 PM
It is one thing for Obama to, embarrassingly, step onto the world stage and wax like a high school sophomore on how wonderful it would be if the world would rid itself of nuclear weapons. But in a world where nuclear threats abound and nuclear proliferation is at its highest ever, Obama's twin threats of unilaterally disarming America and cutting our missile defense program seem insane indeed. Obama seems bound and determined to take us from the status of a superpower to that of one among equals. If he does not see the danger in that, he has no understanding of history. There have been few extended periods of relative peace in the world. The Pax Romana, the Roman peace, came about because Rome was the world's superpower and no one was willing to challenge them. When it ended, it led to the Dark Ages and a period of constant warfare that lasted through WWII, after which the Pax Americana, which you so ably describe, took hold. The bottom line, if Obama wants world peace, the world's history from Plato to NATO should teach him that the path towards it is not disarming the U.S., it is the opposite.
Posted by: GW at January 6, 2010 12:34 AM
In a world without nuclear weapons, a nation's military power would be based largely on:
1)size of population
2)industrial capacity
The U.S. still has a considerably higher output than does China, but energy & other policies are making life increasingly difficult for many of the industries which are vital for military purposes. The *combination* of denuclearization with the other policies of the Obama administration would represent a vast reduction in American power.
See my related post powering down.
Posted by: david foster at January 6, 2010 05:32 AM
Hve you seen this? Thought you might appreciate it
Posted by: YU91 at January 6, 2010 09:01 AM
It would be interesting to convince the Dithering Idiot to pull ALL American Military out of Europe and tell them they are on their own.
I wonder if Obama's successor would be as stupid as he is.
Posted by: PCD at January 6, 2010 10:10 AM