Posted on 04/13/2010 9:58:41 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Groups like al Qaeda are working hard to acquire nuclear weapons, and "if they ever succeed, they would surely use it," President Barack Obama said while speaking to more than 40 world leaders Tuesday.
Obama, addressing the opening plenary session of the nuclear security summit in Washington, asked his foreign counterparts to join together "not simply to talk, but to act."
The president's summit has already yielded early successes for the administration with Monday's announcement that Ukraine will give up its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and China's promise to work with the U.S. on a sanctions resolution on Iran.
On Tuesday, Obama opened with the focus of the summit, building an international effort to prevent loose nuclear material from ending up in the hands of terrorists.
Obama said that 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the world faces "a cruel irony": that the risk of "a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up."
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Ukraine will give up materials....and guess who picks up the tab for that.....
President Ronald Reagan, 23 MAR 1983
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression — to preserve freedom and peace.
Since the dawn of the atomic age, we’ve sought to reduce the risk of war by maintaining a strong deterrent and by seeking genuine arms control. “Deterrence” means simply this: making sure any adversary who thinks about attacking the United States, or our allies, or our vital interest, concludes that the risks to him outweigh any potential gains. Once he understands that, he won’t attack. We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.
This strategy of deterrence has not changed. It still works. But what it takes to maintain deterrence has changed. It took one kind of military force to deter an attack when, we had far more nuclear weapons than any other power; it takes another kind now that the Soviets, for example, have enough accurate and powerful nuclear weapons to destroy virtually all of our missiles on the ground. Now, this is not to say that the Soviet Union is planning to make war on us. Nor do I believe a war is inevitable — quite the contrary. But what must be recognized is that our security is based on being prepared to meet all threats.
There was a time when we depended on coastal forts and artillery batteries, because, with the weaponry of that day, any attack would have had to come by sea. Well, this is a different world, and our defenses must be based on recognition and awareness of the weaponry possessed by other nations in the nuclear age.
We can’t afford to believe that we will never be threatened. There have been two world wars in my lifetime. We didn’t start them and, indeed, did everything we could to avoid being drawn into them. But we were ill-prepared for both. Had we been better prepared, peace might have been preserved.
Funny, the Chief Enabler warning of nuclear attacks...
I would tell him to go after the Islamofacist terrorists then. Quit playing footsy with them. When someone slaps you in your face.............you don’t bow to them.
Obama would love a nuclear attack on US soil. It would give him a reason to institute martial law.
He is a traitor and should be tried for treason.
From “overseas contingency operations”?
Obama has just delivered his “encoded message” to Al Qaida. Nice of him to do so from the once Bully Pulpit.
Call me when Iran & N Korea do. Otherwise, it's meaningless.
Anyone else smell a “Reichstag Fire Event”? Maybe ‘Teabaggers’ setting of a nuke! (sarc)
I’m sure NK and Iran are really scared now.
...and the antichrist will appear as a feigner of peace.....
It's really getting hard to keep up with which day we should talk and which day we should act.
Why would he do that? He would then be playing Mussolini in a physically damaged country. Instead, he simply has to cite the immediate threat of nuclear attack and declare martial law...preferably just before the Fall elections. This may all be a theatrical precursor to interfering with the Fall election.
“Groups like al Qaeda are working hard to acquire nuclear weapons, and “if they ever succeed, they would surely use it,””
This is reason #1, #2 and #3 why Iran cannot be permitted to deploy nuclear weapons. Their irrational hatred of the West virtually guarantees that one of their weapons will find its way into the hands of al Qaeda. The U.S. should stop being so cowardly and simply announce that unless Iranian nuclear facilities are completely dismantled by Nov. 1, we and the Israelis jointly will see to it that they are dismantled through military force. No ifs, ands or buts. It was GHWB’s unwavering insistence “this will not stand” following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait that led to the highly successful military operation to reverse that appalling breach of international law.
Obama will use this "threat" as a means to take even more liberty away from Americans under the guise of "security." The threat is real -- but this president is turning a blind eye to it. His other eye will turn off portions of the internet, only allow certain voices on TV and cable and anything else his mind can envision.
How I miss Reagan.
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