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TERRORISM and COUNTERTERRORISM: News, INFORMATION & Analysis #2
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| 4/11/2010
| FReeper Collaboration
Posted on 04/11/2010 9:33:03 AM PDT by Velveeta
Obama amputates our nuclear arms
By: Charles Krauthammer
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Under President Obamas new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty, explained Gates, then the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.
Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker is up-to-date with its latest IAEA inspections, well, it gets immunity from nuclear retaliation. (Our response is then restricted to bullets, bombs and other conventional munitions.)
However, if the lawyers tell the president that the attacking state is NPT noncompliant, we are free to blow the bastards to nuclear kingdom come.
This is quite insane. Its like saying that if a terrorist deliberately uses his car to mow down a hundred people waiting at a bus stop, the decision as to whether he gets hanged or 100 hours of community service hinges entirely on whether his car had passed emissions inspections.
Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the United States without fear of nuclear retaliation?
The naivete is stunning.
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To: FARS
When exactly did this happen? It was reported 11/13. But radio-iodine was detected in the Czech republic on 11/11.
Just sayin’...
2,781
posted on
11/14/2011 8:47:19 PM PST
by
null and void
(MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
To: M Kehoe; All
“By whom of what” was meant to point directly at triggers but I do not know enough yet to confirm it. It could as easily have been a new plan for weapons being sent to Afghanistan but I agree it would have to be much more than that to gather these bigwigs.
A senior former Iranian military officer told me he thought the explosion was a satellite guided missile or a hand held laser on the ground.
Whose? He was not sure.
2,782
posted on
11/14/2011 8:51:41 PM PST
by
FARS
To: FARS
To: FARS; no-to-illegals; All
Fascinating that the head Mullah is backing off a bit. Might also explain another FR post regarding apparent reaching out to the dissidents in Syria by Iran. Lots of tangled webs aweaving.
To: FARS; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; Bikkuri; ...
2,785
posted on
11/14/2011 11:53:51 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: 2ndDivisionVet; FARS
Are you implying that the CIC would have something to fear from his troops?
2,786
posted on
11/15/2011 4:57:24 AM PST
by
GregNH
(Re-Elect "No Body")
To: FARS
I’m confused, who is the person saying this on this blog?
2,787
posted on
11/15/2011 5:45:53 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: LucyT
Interesting that both times it was an ally from a country that places a high value on not losing face...
2,788
posted on
11/15/2011 7:23:13 AM PST
by
null and void
(MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
To: Velveeta
To: FARS
This is the closest I could find and it is hard to tell if they shook his hand or not. It is at the very beginning and goes by fast.
Obama at Apec
2,790
posted on
11/15/2011 9:48:24 AM PST
by
Spunky
(Sarah Palin on Polls "Poles are for Strippers and Cross Country Skiers")
To: autumnraine; All
Who wants to know?
You have not posted anything about who you are since you joined in 2008 (smile), so who wants to know?
Which blog do you mean?
You first.
2,791
posted on
11/15/2011 11:12:45 AM PST
by
FARS
To: Spunky; All
Thanks but it is a diferent clip. He actually shakes hands with three or four people in the clip, then the next one he approaches turns away and talks to a companion, wile crossing his hands across his own chest.
Obama hesitates an instant then walks off behind this person to the next ptential person but the clip cuts away then to something else.
The pointer is that he does shake several hands as he walks around the chairs befoer the incident happens. Longer than your clip.
2,792
posted on
11/15/2011 11:20:34 AM PST
by
FARS
To: GregNH; All
Increasingly so. The Sepah are generally his supporters but as a splintering group many of whom which have baulked at wounding and killing fellow Iranians, are no longer a solid entity.
This goes way back to his son Mojtaba importing 15,000 of the very worst felons from Palestinian jails in 2007 to overcome this reluctance and setting them (Arabs, not Persians) upon the populace.
The Sepah is a paramilitary group andnot the “official” military, which has been largely disarmed and set aside. This Military, not fanatical MOslems like the Mullahs do not support the regime but need their paychecks to support their familiies.
2,793
posted on
11/15/2011 11:40:07 AM PST
by
FARS
To: null and void; All
Good point but IMHO he simply blundered and could not care less one way or another as his effort to draw attention to himself far supercedes unforeseen results. For him all this is a giggle.
2,794
posted on
11/15/2011 11:45:30 AM PST
by
FARS
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2,795
posted on
11/15/2011 12:54:16 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
(FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
To: FARS
Clearly, Sunna or later, Shi’ite happens!
2,796
posted on
11/15/2011 2:21:04 PM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: sheik yerbouty; All; Spunky; ~Kim4VRWC's~; ~Peter; 1035rep; 2ndDivisionVet; 3D-JOY; 4woodenboats; ..
2,797
posted on
11/15/2011 8:34:14 PM PST
by
FARS
To: FARS
To: SlowBoat407
We have to let go of the idea that Obama is clueless. He know exactly what he is doing - tearing this country apart piece by piece so it will no longer be unique in the world. Absolutely- fundamentally changing America. Obama isn't all that concerned about a second term either. He's the left's bangalore torpedo, blowing a breach for socialism to storm the landscape.
2,799
posted on
11/16/2011 5:05:23 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Lexicon Genetics- Rick Perry's Solyndra Moment)
To: snidely whiplash III
2,800
posted on
11/16/2011 5:05:24 PM PST
by
fanfan
(This is not my Father's Canada.)
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