Posted on 07/10/2009 3:59:14 PM PDT by mojito
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.
The pursuit of such an offensive weapons treaty could nonetheless be detrimental to us. Why? Because Obama's hunger for a diplomatic success, such as it is, allowed the Russians to exact a price: linkage between offensive and defensive nuclear weapons.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
In all of US history? I guess we'll wait and see.
Does anyone know where the sec of state is or why she didn’t accompany him??? I heard Savage asking about that last night. He said the traditional thing is for the sos to go with on these trips, not the entire trailer park family (ok, he didn’t say that last part, I did).
When it comes to foreign trips, President Obama is “making a habit” of not taking Secretary Clinton along....”
http://hillary.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/10/obama_leaving_clinton_behind_on_travels
Supposedly, Hil’s broken elbow is the reason she wasn't in Russia to oversee the dawn of SALT VIII.
Like you believe that.
O is the biggest current threat to America. Right there in the White House, our most dangerous enemy. And a foreign born one at that. Named Hussein, no less. Muslim, as far as I can tell. He did not take his wife to the muslim speeches he gave. I read that he sent Michelle home because a muslim cannot under sharia law, make public appearances with his wife. If she were covered from head to toe in a burqua maybe but not in the outfits she wears. Sounds muslim to me! Maybe that’s why they’re having such a hard time pretending to find a Christian church. Not Christian. Not even atheist. Muslim. Hussein. Foreign born. In Our White House. Add the dictator behavior and you got a real mess until January 2013.
Thanks and lol, you’re right....
Never thought I’d actually kinda want to see her, at least I don’t feel like she would SOOOO QUICKLY bring down our nation.
Even Bill Clinton didn't want America incinerated. Obama doesn't care, as long as he's on vacation somewhere else....
On another hand, I wonder when Mrs. Cankles will resign to run against The O'Bummer in the primary? Just a thought.
Reagan worked with the vision of “trust but verify”. Our muzzie usurper mugabe wannabe just gave up the store with no provisions for the ruskies to do anything. What a naive fool he is. My biggest question is where will baraq go if he gives up to another dictator?
Hillary couldn’t do it because the press does not worship her and would not cover for her to the extent that they do Obama. They’d throw a little cover her way, but wouldn’t lie down in the road.
Unibama is going to get us all blowed up.
i saw a pic of Machete Machelle w/the pope and she actually wore a black veil COVERING her face.
The Vatican has relaxed some it’s standards when wives of foreign dignitaries are there to meet and greet. I believe the veil COVERING the female face went out with JackieO
anyway, it was nice to see that Machete Machelle covered her face with a veil for once.
I knew 0ditz would fluster cluck things in Russia.
That's kind of a tough case to make considering China Gate.
From earlier today on Free Republic.
And Jimmy Carter looks like an expert on the economy, and competant in foreign policy.
It's all relative, TigersEye.
A Christian church is not much aid to him at this point. It could even be negative in the eyes of some of his supporters. A cold calculation to be made, to be sure...
The Wright edifice, for some 20 years, was a career enhancement meeting house...
Would that he manifest Christian love even if not in the sanctuary of a church. But that hasn’t happened.
I don't believe in relativism. Selling ICBM guidance tech. and MIRV tech for $200k in campaign contributions to the ChiComs is as evil and treasonous as evil and treason gets.
You got my point and I got yours. No need to discuss further. We survived one dangerous President. Now we have to survive one who's worse.
I realize that but what you described most certainly is relativism.
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