Posted on 07/10/2009 8:35:40 AM PDT by bestintxas
The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our president likes his plumage.
Unfortunately for the United States, the country Obama represents, the prospective treaty is useless at best, detrimental at worst.
Useless because the level of offensive nuclear weaponry, the subject of the U.S.-Russia "Joint Understanding," is an irrelevance. We could today terminate all such negotiations, invite the Russians to build as many warheads as they want, and profitably watch them spend themselves into penury, as did their Soviet predecessors, stockpiling weapons that do nothing more than, as Churchill put it, make the rubble bounce.
Obama says that his START will be a great boon, setting an example to enable us to better pressure North Korea and Iran to give up their nuclear programs. That a man of Obama's intelligence can believe such nonsense is beyond comprehension. There is not a shred of evidence that cuts by the great powers -- the INF treaty, START I, the Treaty of Moscow (2002) -- induced the curtailment of anyone's programs. Moammar Gaddafi gave up his nukes the week we pulled Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole. No treaty involved. The very notion that Kim Jong Il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will suddenly abjure nukes because of yet another U.S.-Russian treaty is comical.
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He and the rest of the rightwing press in DC/NY were soooooo afraid and intimidated by the new cool black guy, that they allowed him to get elected.
Jerks and no-nothings.
Who needs them? I would take an average Freeper over Kraut and Company.
Again...Krauthammer hit the nail on the head.
Actually, she’s observing protocol. Her head should be covered (don’t ask me why) and wear dark colors. Not what I would have worn....
It is traditional and de rigueur for women who meet with the Pope to cover their heads. It is a sign of respect. When I was a very small child, women always covered their heads with a mantilla when they attended Mass. I still occasionally follow that practice, especially when I am in a foreign Catholic country such as Italy or Mexico or Spain.
.... And our president likes his plumage.
ITA. the Fox All-Stars were caught up in the style over substance. Of course, now, none of them would know substance if it hit them over the head- and that includes Chuck. Chuck is the worst kind of pundit for the simply reason he can easily point out the nefarious things with liberals, but is completely blind to the same things among conservatives.
Krauthammer can go to hell.......wishywashy asshat
Well, I know why she is wearing the veil. It would have looked better if you didn’t have to see through it.
LOL
Obama so hates and fears America and its history and values that he believes it must have advesaries of equal power to rein in America's influence on the world and its peoples.When I read this in Charles' column I will celebrate more about him than his intellect and prose. He knows, he just has to proclaim the truth.
I have found myself mentally quoting Hunt for Red October everyday since Bambi was elected.
“This business is going to get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it!”
The Obama 'intelligence' so ballyhooed by the MSM is another false notion half or more of the nation needs to disabuse itself of. Obama shows few signs of real intelligence, and Krauthammer needs to drop this nod to PCness as that becomes more and more apparent.
Obama is a leftist ideologue with a talent for reading words from a teleprompter. We've all seen the results when he is without his teleprompter. That ain't a sign of intelligence.
Thinking the very same thing. The guy is an idiot and he is gonna get us all killed.
Ironic, isn't it, that these are the same two countries that Neville Chamberlain promised to protect prior to WWII?
The similarities between Obama and Chamberlain go (ominously) far beyond that, of course. They share that remarkable naivete about the motives of their counterparts; and they have that supreme confidence in their own ability to sway the hearts and actions of those with whom they're negotiating. And thus they make agreements that are positively hurtful both to the interests of their own countries, and more generally to the maintenance of peace in the world.
This brings up something rather obvious. Churchill was there to oppose Chamberlain (albeit unsuccessfully).
The Republican candidate in 2012 has got to be "Churchillian" in the sense of offering forceful, compelling, and correct criticism of Obama's actions abroad. Domestic issues are of course important ... but Obama's international foolishness is probably going to be a far bigger problem down the road.
Who do we have in our stable of Republicans who can fill that "Churchillian" role? (Sorry, Palinites .... Sarah is not that person.)
GOD: "Hey, you people turned your back on ME and got yourself in this mess. Deal with it!"
The question is are we looking for a candidate with forensic skills and a nimble intellect or are we looking for a candidate of character, are we looking for a figure of the good who can transcend the Golgotha which Obama will bequeath us?
Evidently, we will not get both this cycle.
stockpiling weapons that do nothing more than, as Churchill put it, make the rubble bounce.
Always liked the way Churchill could turn a phrase and get his point across so perfectly.
dick cheney
Why is a veil or head covering required to meet the Pope?
Couldn’t she wear a little color to the meeting? The Pope represents life and she looks as if she is visiting the undertaker.
She had a decent pink ensemble last week and could have worn that and found a matching colored head dress or what ever that is.
Her dressing is so atrocious I just wonder if she isn’t being set up to look like an idiot when they are escorted from the White House? I mean really!
I don’t care for the woman but she really is under performing as a the dresser in chief and is starting to look more like a D.I.C.!
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