I am confused. We have Iran actively seeking nuclear weapons, North Korea saying not only that they possess these horrible devices but are willing to use them against South Korea and the US troops stationed there and the Obama administration not only says we will cut our stocks in half, but actually seeks to eliminate our nuclear weapons all together. He has already made a statement modifying the circumstances under which nuclear retaliation is possible, but apparently even that isn’t enough for our radical President.
He claims this will make the world safe but one would have to assume that the United States is nothing more than a renegade aggressor in need of restraint for that to be true. Mr. Obama may be swept up in the Progressive drivel he learned at Harvard, the anti-American sentiments he used as a community organizer or perhaps he actually bought into the lies spoken by Reverend Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright, but America is not the problem. We are not an aggressor nation and we do not engage in wars of militaristic expansion. While we reserve the right to defend ourselves, we do not hold the threat of nuclear arms out as just another weapon in that struggle. After World War II, we have maintained the posture that our nuclear forces were strictly a deterrent against nuclear attack and have never seriously considered their use for any other purpose.
I do agree that we live in a different world where massive stock piles of nuclear weapons are not actually needed but to come to the conclusion that America can totally dismantle her nuclear capabilities as rogue nations hostile to the United States are actively seeking to obtain nuclear capabilities is not only foolish, but dangerously short sighted. Mr. Obama obviously hasn’t learned the lessons of the Cold War; lessons that clearly show if it were not for our preparedness, we most certainly would have had to counter a Soviet invasion of Western Europe in another long and bloody conventional war. It was the threat posed by our massive stocks of high grade nuclear weapons that kept the Soviet Union at bay.
Today, our potential enemies have no fear of America because we are currently bridled with a Commander in Chief that has no stomach for war and refuses to take decisive action to prevent these nations from obtaining a nuclear capability. Benjamin Franklin once said that “if we act like sheep, we will be eaten by wolves” displaying a keen understanding that we can only preserve peace by making it abundantly clear to threatening nations that we are prepared, capable and willing to defend ourselves against attack. The United States will invite aggressive challenges to our interests if we assume a posture that shows any weakness at all.
World opinion sees United States foreign policy as unclear at best and even friendly nations have begun to question our abilities. Yes, we are committed to winning the war against terrorist factions in Afghanistan but the actions we have recently taken treat foreign combatants and terrorists as third rate burglars for the court system to deal with and has undermined the efforts our brave soldiers have made in the field. The idea that we actually have three Navy SEALs on trial for giving a terrorist a bloody nose after he was captured for kidnapped several Americans, hanging them from a bridge and setting them on fire is not just a travesty but an embarrassment in the court of world opinion.
Our allies and enemies look at these actions and realize that President Obama is transforming our military by turning soldiers in battle into policemen on the beat. This is a war and our men and women under arms have gotten more than a bloody nose because we have rules of engagement and the enemy doesn’t. The idea that we could even consider trying our elite soldiers for the performance of their job is ludicrous. What is the message we are sending? Will our soldiers simply refuse to search for these terrorists out of fear that they too will be prosecuted or has the President just set the stage for military assassinations? After all, the message they hear is that a bullet eradicates the problem but an arrest will bring more false charges of abuse and result in more court martial’s of U.S. military personnel. Either way it serves the terrorists and will steel their efforts against us.
Now the President has made their mission even more hazardous by announcing to our enemies that they needn’t worry about nuclear retaliation if they employ the use of chemical or biological weapon of mass destruction, setting the stage for precisely that kind of assault against our soldiers. While the President piddles around with healthcare, cap and trade, card check, bank bailouts and corporate take-over’s, he has abdicated the only clear cut mission of the Federal government; the defense and security of the United States.
No, I don’t believe that he is intentionally weakening our military and nuclear capability in order to make America vulnerable to attack. I do believe that the man is a hopeless and confused ideologue that actually thinks that if we disarm, that other nations will cheer and follow suit.
Paul
He claims this will make the world safe but one would have to assume that the United States is nothing more than a renegade aggressor in need of restraint for that to be true. Mr. Obama may be swept up in the Progressive drivel he learned at Harvard, the anti-American sentiments he used as a community organizer or perhaps he actually bought into the lies spoken by Reverend Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright, but America is not the problem. We are not an aggressor nation and we do not engage in wars of militaristic expansion. While we reserve the right to defend ourselves, we do not hold the threat of nuclear arms out as just another weapon in that struggle. After World War II, we have maintained the posture that our nuclear forces were strictly a deterrent against nuclear attack and have never seriously considered their use for any other purpose.
I do agree that we live in a different world where massive stock piles of nuclear weapons are not actually needed but to come to the conclusion that America can totally dismantle her nuclear capabilities as rogue nations hostile to the United States are actively seeking to obtain nuclear capabilities is not only foolish, but dangerously short sighted. Mr. Obama obviously hasn’t learned the lessons of the Cold War; lessons that clearly show if it were not for our preparedness, we most certainly would have had to counter a Soviet invasion of Western Europe in another long and bloody conventional war. It was the threat posed by our massive stocks of high grade nuclear weapons that kept the Soviet Union at bay.
Today, our potential enemies have no fear of America because we are currently bridled with a Commander in Chief that has no stomach for war and refuses to take decisive action to prevent these nations from obtaining a nuclear capability. Benjamin Franklin once said that “if we act like sheep, we will be eaten by wolves” displaying a keen understanding that we can only preserve peace by making it abundantly clear to threatening nations that we are prepared, capable and willing to defend ourselves against attack. The United States will invite aggressive challenges to our interests if we assume a posture that shows any weakness at all.
World opinion sees United States foreign policy as unclear at best and even friendly nations have begun to question our abilities. Yes, we are committed to winning the war against terrorist factions in Afghanistan but the actions we have recently taken treat foreign combatants and terrorists as third rate burglars for the court system to deal with and has undermined the efforts our brave soldiers have made in the field. The idea that we actually have three Navy SEALs on trial for giving a terrorist a bloody nose after he was captured for kidnapped several Americans, hanging them from a bridge and setting them on fire is not just a travesty but an embarrassment in the court of world opinion.
Our allies and enemies look at these actions and realize that President Obama is transforming our military by turning soldiers in battle into policemen on the beat. This is a war and our men and women under arms have gotten more than a bloody nose because we have rules of engagement and the enemy doesn’t. The idea that we could even consider trying our elite soldiers for the performance of their job is ludicrous. What is the message we are sending? Will our soldiers simply refuse to search for these terrorists out of fear that they too will be prosecuted or has the President just set the stage for military assassinations? After all, the message they hear is that a bullet eradicates the problem but an arrest will bring more false charges of abuse and result in more court martial’s of U.S. military personnel. Either way it serves the terrorists and will steel their efforts against us.
Now the President has made their mission even more hazardous by announcing to our enemies that they needn’t worry about nuclear retaliation if they employ the use of chemical or biological weapon of mass destruction, setting the stage for precisely that kind of assault against our soldiers. While the President piddles around with healthcare, cap and trade, card check, bank bailouts and corporate take-over’s, he has abdicated the only clear cut mission of the Federal government; the defense and security of the United States.
No, I don’t believe that he is intentionally weakening our military and nuclear capability in order to make America vulnerable to attack. I do believe that the man is a hopeless and confused ideologue that actually thinks that if we disarm, that other nations will cheer and follow suit.
Paul
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