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The bad-nukes myth
NY Post ^ | April 7, 2010 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 04/07/2010 3:15:05 AM PDT by Scanian

Nuclear weapons are not evil. Terrifying, yes. But their horrific capabilities prevented a Third World War. It all depends on whose finger is on the button.

Until yesterday's formal announcement of the administration's new Nuclear Posture Review, nukes also kept us safe from a range of threats short of a doomsday scenario: Our enemies risked going only so far. Nukes didn't prevent all wars -- but wars remained local.

Yesterday, we threw away a significant part of history's most successful deterrent.

This looks like an act of reckless vanity on the part of the administration, but let's allow that this weakening of our national defense is the result of misguided idealism. The important thing isn't the politics, but the practical consequences.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deterrance; foolishness; gates; idealism

1 posted on 04/07/2010 3:15:05 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Perhaps some hope is left in that Obama is a consummate liar. Therefore he can’t even be trusted with a no-nuke pledge.


2 posted on 04/07/2010 3:18:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Scanian

Nukes have the same stigma for the left as guns. Both are scary to the metro-sexual, but necessary in a harsh reality of this world, and both cannot be done away with at our peril.
It really boils down to materialism. The left is materialistic and sees everything in terms of things. Who has what and how much, and what is fair. Things, inanimate objects, are given a moral quality as you would a human, and judged as such. It really is the ultimate in materialism.
That is also Marxism.


4 posted on 04/07/2010 3:35:38 AM PDT by Wildbill22
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To: Scanian

FUBO. It’s not even been 2 years and he’s gone a long way toward leading our country into the crapper. Now let’s advertise that we won’t defend ourselves. Is there anybody who hates this country more than our POTUS? What a question to have to ask...


5 posted on 04/07/2010 3:36:33 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Scanian

The next presidential election can’t get here fast enough. There is much to fear until then and it will only be by God’s grace that the US doesn’t suffer a catastrophe as a result of this decision.


7 posted on 04/07/2010 3:48:10 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: F15Eagle

vids for mah bro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7VJ4ypZKu4


8 posted on 04/07/2010 3:48:20 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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To: Scanian

Not reckless vanity.———————Terminal stupidity.


10 posted on 04/07/2010 4:04:14 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Scanian
This is a very real -- and unilateral -- weakening of our national security. In the past, our ambiguity made our enemies hesitate. The new policy guarantees that they'll intensify their pursuit of bugs, gas and weaponized computers.

Scott Brown ran and won on national security. Obama has handed the Republicans not just an issue , but a reason, to clobber the Democrats in the fall.

11 posted on 04/07/2010 4:06:22 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: F15Eagle

You missed everlasting lulz

http://www.youtube.com/user/ufotvnews#p/a/u/2/Wzf4XKShaDM


12 posted on 04/07/2010 4:07:44 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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To: Scanian
Our only hope is that he is consistent and is lying about the reduction of our nuclear arms just as he has lied about everything else he has uttered.
14 posted on 04/07/2010 4:44:44 AM PDT by Clink (The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.)
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To: F15Eagle

ya that cat is tight with fruit of islam types.

also music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFZb53N4X90


15 posted on 04/07/2010 4:44:48 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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