Posted on 04/05/2010 5:37:13 PM PDT by lbryce
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons, even in self defense.
But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.
Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary.
Mr. Obama’s strategy is a sharp shift from those adopted by his predecessors and seeks to revamp the nation’s nuclear posture for a new age in which rogue states and terrorist organizations are greater threats than traditional powers like Russia and China.
It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the Cold War. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons, or launched a crippling cyberattack.
Those threats, he argued, could be deterred with “a series of graded options” -- a combination of old and newly designed conventional weapons.
“I’m going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the American people are safe and secure,” Mr. Obama said during the interview in the Oval Office.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Our ‘Enemies’ have just lost all respect for their US adversary.
But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero, 42 B.C
I didn't say what you're referring to, and have no idea what it means.
Spitballs?
I just added the word SCREWED to the Keyword section at the beginning of thread, so you can click on that word, then activities and see how many hits,(views) the thread has gotten.
I know for a fact that we were going to attempt to develop an underground bunker buster nuke but I guess thats all off the table now.
Impeach. NOW.
No, click on Screwed, then Articles, at it will reveal the number of views. Over a thousand views so far.
Re: Seven Days in May
“Seven Days in Mayis a political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. The novel was made into a motion picture in 1964, with screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. Walker after he retired from the military. The author, Knebel, got the idea for the book after interviewing then Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May
As soon as we get a majority in Congress who can read and understand, "adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort".
Then we he can be impeached, removed and tried in Criminal court for the only crime defined in the Constitution. (Defined, not just mentioned)
Obama is not a human being.
Obama is a disgusting bottom feeding scum of the earth animal.
And I would guarantee you Ron Paul et al agree with this “fiscally responsible” approach. The lie-bertarians are surely in ecstasy.
Gotta go outside now and Spit. Maybe Barf, but at least spit, if I can, since for the moment, I'm spitless.
Cheer up, for America's sake, Please stop thinking it's going to get worse.
Well, I guess it's kind of hard for you, being the 4th horseman and all.
“To set an example”....
Let me get this straight....we’re gonna set an example, lay down our nukes and the whole world will follow???
Playground logic: Hmmmm...when I was a kid, I always set an example of how to behave on the playground. I played fair, didn’t hit, didn’t bully and was respectful of others especially teachers/adults.....Using Obama’s logic, there shouldn’t have been any bullies or mean kids on the playground with me... after all, there WAS an example for them to follow....but there were several bullies... and my sweet demeanor actually only encouraged them to taunt me...UNTIL I had enough and jumped back in the bully’s face with every intent on smacking her if she touched me...apparently, she believed it too and backed off, apologized and I was never bullied at school again....by anyone....a 5th grader could explain to this moron why his policy sucks....
I have to pray everyday about this traitor....”God help me not to hate him”
Yes, we are in oh so many ways. I hope God forgives the country for voting in this dufus.
Affirmative action on parade...same as that Hank Johnson twit.....you reap what you sow....don’t you dare assert the obvious for if you do you are racist....
We were warned.
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