Posted on 10/23/2009 4:29:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
President Obama plans to take a more active role in preparing America's nuclear weapons strategy, helping to ensure that the final document, due out next year, reflects his priorities, rather than just the institutional views of his government, administration officials said.
Mr. Obama was said to be unhappy when the Defense Department presented to him its decision to remove a long-range missile battery from Poland and a sophisticated radar system from the Czech Republic. Obama had little time to study the issue before the vagaries of the Pentagon's budget procedures forced his hand. Responding to concerns that the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was being completed without enough input from his staff and from the State Department, Obama has decided to provide guidance directly, and plans to participate in several high-level meetings.
At stake is the future of America's deterrence policy and whether its nuclear weapons stockpile needs to be significantly modified. Obama has called for a move towards "global zero," a world free of nuclear weapons, but has insisted that, so long as countries possess nuclear weapons, America's policy of possessing nukes as a means to deter their use would remain in effect. The NPR will reveal whether the tenor of the deterrent changes. For example, Obama may decide that America would not use nuclear weapons against a state that did not also possess them.
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It is going to take decades to fix waht this man fraks up in 4 years......
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
If you know that, you must be familiar with...
BOHICA.
If not, mail me for the decode.
This nonsense, what he’s doing to our nuclear defense both with respect to our nuclear arsenal and missile defense, is what frightens me the most about Obama.
And to think, you fools *laughed* when I started pouring the concrete for my blast shelter... ;)
"Mr. Obama was said to be unhappy when the Defense Department presented to him its decision to remove a long-range missile battery from Poland and a sophisticated radar system from the Czech Republic. Obama had little time to study the issue before the vagaries of the Pentagon's budget procedures forced his hand."
Whoa, whoa, WHOA! Are they really trying to say Obama had no other choice but to scrap the missile defense plan/that there was nothing he could have done about it? I am so not buying that for a dollar!
Use nukes? He is afraid to use conventional weapons, for goodness sake. Were does that leave us? ;-)
that line puzzled me too. could be just more revisionist history from this admin. they know nothing except how to share blame.
Positioning for Obama to assume control over the entire planet.
Didn’t the Monkees sing this?
>>> “global zero” <<<
Nice to finally discover what Obama really worships!
God help us.
I’d like to consider OB’s hands on a nuke.
No...
but, they would have!!
but, he is fast becoming the most egregious example of it!!
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