Posted on 09/04/2009 3:12:30 PM PDT by pissant
In a Tom Wicker NY Times story reprinted in the St Petersberg Times on May 12, 1984 (1), Obama's pencil necked Weapons Czar, Ashton Carter, is quoted as declaring that Reagan's "Star Wars" (SDI) was nothing but a pipe dream. Apparently, Mr. Carter - the man with the oh so appropriate last name - was the author of a report during his stint at MIT that sought to put the kabosh on Reagan's plans for missile defenses.
The Democrats in the house cooked up a group called the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment that issued a scathing report denouncing the efficacy of missile defenses, basing their conclusions on Carter's work.
In his report, Carter stated: "A consensus of the informed members of the defense technical community that the prospect of a successful missile defense was so remote that it should not serve as the basis for public expectation or national policy".
Of course, unlike Reagan, idiots like Ashton Carter did not know that Reagan intended to bankrupt the USSR in a race for missile defenses as well as lay the groundwork for fully functional systems.
But surely Mr. Carter was fully cured of his naivete by the time he was hired on as under secretary of Defense by Slick Willie? Well it turns out that he also was one of the prime architects for the deal with the North Korean commies to halt their nuclear programs in 1994 (2).
So it looks like Obama's czar is batting .000.
At laest one positive thing came from Mr. Carter's supposed expertise. It convinced Walter Mondale to run on a platform opposing SDI (3). ROFL.
Links to sources:
1. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jQcOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lXwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6631,3528267&dq=ashton-carter
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Carter
3. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DUURAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qOkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4698,3381481&dq=ashton-carter
Didn’t SDI, like, you know, work?
Of course, the moron should never have been confirmed during slick willies term...
Carter admits improper activity; nominee in limbo
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5495092_ITM
Weapons czar? Isn’t that why we have the DOD?
Carter directed military planning during the 1994 crisis over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program...In 1997 Dr. Carter co-chaired the Catastrophic Terrorism Study Group with former CIA Director John M. Deutch, which urged greater attention to terrorism...from 1998 to 2000, he was deputy to William J. Perry in the North Korea Policy Review and traveled with him to Pyongyang...
So, so far so crappy?
Was he part of the Teddie Kennedy ovature to the KGB to stop Reagan’s march to end the USSR. Without a shot fired I might add.
Some people go to MIT or are associated in other specific ways with the University and become real experts in their field(s) of endeavor. Others, as in this Carter guy, learned nothing and try only to leverage their association in order to make their BS believable.
Some of which have been developed and successfully tested. So how can this imbecile call them a "pipe dream"??
One of the most dangerous words is “never.” “We will never break the sound barrier.” “It will never fly.” “Americans will never buy a four cylinder motorcycle.”
That last one is a paraphrase of what the then president of Harley-Davidson said in 1969 or ‘70.
It was 1984. they were just starting the R&D. He wanted to kill the baby.
Sure he did. ...and that was a main reason the commie-loving SOB was against it.
Good counterpoint
Note to MIT geek:
Last year we shot down a freaking satellite from a moving platform.
One shot - one kill
Can I get an encore hoo-rah for the Navy snipers from the USS Lake Erie?
Don’t think for a second the Chicoms, the NKors, the Russkies, and even the talibanians weren’t paying very very close attention last February.
Another dweeb from Clinton's admin. and a Rhodes scholar.
I guess I was not paying attention as I purchased the then brand new 1969 Honda CB750 Four. it was an incredible leap forward for motorcycles.
“Don’t think for a second the Chicoms, the NKors, the Russkies,”
The Star Wars Part Deux lobby long ago dropped any claim that a system could stop a Chinese or Russian attack. Note that the bases’ sites are geographically arranged to halt mythical Iranian and North Korean ICBMs.
LOL. You aren’t paying much attention, nancy
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