SDI is one defense, but it is not 100% effective. One nuke can wreck your day and your city. Israel knows this which is why they have a major nuclear weapons supply, enough to ensure the total destruction of any enemy country that attacks them.
We are not going to be able to destroy any nuclear weapons of Russia, Red China, No. Korea, or Pakistan. Iran, maybe, if we didn’t have a communist coward in the White House.
We simply do not know about every secret nuclear facility in these countries. Every time some Democrat liberal/leftist told us that the Soviet Union didn’t have an arms buildup beyond what they said it was, they were proven wrong.
This was especially true when the “B-Team” report of Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham (a friend of mine) and John Collins (Library of Congress), showed in 1976, from publicly available materials, that the Soviets were secretly spending not $3-7% of their GNP on an arms buildup, but from 10-15% or MORE on it, and had been for many years, if not decades.
A late friend of mine once wrote “You can trust the Communists to be Communists” and it has been proven true on a regular basis throughout the years (That is why Jimmy Carter got beaten in 1980. He refused to recoginize the truth, hired anti-defense idiots for DOD and State (Brezninksi, Christopher, Vance, etc).
Obama is just like Carter, but more ideologically opposed to US might than Jimmy of the Attack Rabbit. Panetta had some guts but not much. Dempsey, a total disgrace as the cowardly leader of the JCS. Brennan at Intelligence? You’ve got to be kidding? Kerry as Secy State? Why not just dig up Benedict Arnold and nominate him? Hillary Clinton?
Show me one major success she has had - Libya? Mali? (ah the French have actually started to fight there), Iran? Syria? Afghan Taliban (Obama says they have been driven out of power in Afghanistan; our troops say exactly the opposite: Who would you trust, our troops or Obama?
Chavez is still in power in Venezuela, now a marxist state in creation. Same for the wacked out Morales in Bolivia and Correa in Ecuador, with Kirchner next in Argentina. Ortega still runs Nicaragua as does the Marxist FLMN in El Salvador. The Castro boys just won’t die.
Hagel is a disaster in the making for America. Kerry has been a disaster for America since his Vietnam days. Brennan is a disaster and the best gift we can give Al Qaeda and the Moslem Brotherhood.
We had better keep a very strong nuclear arsenal on all levels or we are toast. Red China can afford to lose half its population in a surprise attack and counterattack. We can’t.
Israel can’t afford a nuclear attack at all. They are prepared for it. We are not and under Obama, surrender will be the only alternative, which is not far from what he is doing now at a slower pace.
Only the strong survive!
Oh, I’m 100% in favor of keeping our arsenal, and I’m also 100% in favor of destroying our enemies — and then building SDI, and *still* keeping our arsenal. The world will have peace once we have superior firepower, or as GWB put it, military superiority beyond question.