Obama’s Nuclear Strategy Intended as a Message (That America Is Weak Under Obama)

ny times ^ | 4/6/2010 | DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER

[tobyhill]

At the heart of President Obama’s new nuclear strategy lies a central gamble: that an aging, oversize, increasingly outmoded nuclear arsenal can be turned to the new purpose of adding leverage to the faltering effort to force Iran and North Korea to rethink the value of their nuclear programs.

The 50-page “Nuclear Posture Review” released on Tuesday acknowledged outright that “the massive nuclear arsenal we inherited from the cold-war era” is “poorly suited to address the challenges posed by suicidal terrorist and unfriendly regimes seeking nuclear weapons.”

Nonetheless, the new strategy aims to use the arsenal to do just that, despite considerable skepticism that any new doctrine or set of White House announcements is likely to change the calculus for North Korea or Iran.

Mr. Obama’s new strategy makes just about every nonnuclear state immune from any threat of nuclear retaliation by the United States. But it carves out an exception for Iran and North Korea, labeled “outliers” rather than the Bush-era moniker of “rogue states.” The wording was chosen, Mr. Obama’s senior advisers said, to suggest they have a path back to international respectability — and to de-targeting by the United States.

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates made the choice explicit. “There is a message for Iran and North Korea here,” he told reporters on Tuesday.

[caver]

“That America Is Weak Under Obama”

A lot of us get the message alright. We understand completely.

[tobyhill]

Yep, message received loud and clear. Obama now plans to drop the phrase ‘Islamic Radicalism’ since only 99.47% of terrorist are Islamic.

[SueRae]

“we inherited”. The most overrused phrase of this sham of an administration.

We have had the best defense system in the world, until this dangerous individual got elected. We cannot let him undermine us in this area. What a tool.

[alli133]

Not long now before Red China moves on Taiwan! It will be another BO disaster in foreign policy and world freedom.

[USS Alaska]

osamaobama has finally kept a campaign promise.

He told us that he would not keep nukes and is doing what it.

communist bastard.

[Zeppo]

The pace of the attacks on America coming from the Obama regime seems to be speeding up.

Clearly they understand that they have "screwed the pooch" with their health care destruction bill and other missteps, hence the emphasis on doing as much damage as they can while they (think that they can) still can get away with it.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Clearly they understand that they have "screwed the pooch" with their health care destruction bill and other missteps, hence the emphasis on doing as much damage as they can while they (think that they can) still can get away with it.

It remains to be seen if the electorate's memory is long enough to reverse Dem congressional control in November; however, regardless of what happens at the polls this fall, BHO remains in control of the Executive Branch until at least 2012. I look for him to really pick up the pace of what he can do by Order and appointment within the Executive Branch over the next two and a half years.