Posted on 04/07/2010 4:41:47 AM PDT by AlanD
The president's new nuclear weapons policy is just the latest (should we call it “Jimmy-Cartesian”?) indication that he is determined to hasten the country’s decline, writes Tunku Varadarajan. Consider me unimpressed. Barack Obama’s ballyhooed “Nuclear Posture Review” has turned out, in truth, to be more “posture” than “review.” As has been pointed out by a prominent parser of all things nuclear, the new policy actually changes very little: We weren’t going to nuke Brazil before the review and we’re still asserting the right to nuke North Korea if we need to. And even my nuclear-layman’s eye detects the thrust of platitude in the president’s assertion that, henceforward, the U.S. would “only consider the use of nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the United States or its allies and partners.” Does the president mean to tell us that his predecessors were free to consider the use of nukes in humdrum circumstances to defend trivial interests?
I jest here, of course, but I despair, too. I despair of this latest episode of gestural theater designed to make the U.S. look exquisitely reasonable (should we call it “Jimmy-Cartesian”?), but which in truth results in the U.S. looking flaccid, or worse, complacent. After all, who gains from a presidential posture that has, in effect, stigmatized our most potent deterrent? In terms of foreign policy—or, better put, foreign clout—the U.S. is going through a startling period of auto-emasculation. Barack Obama has discarded his predecessor’s big stick—the wielding of which should have confirmed the flaws not of big sticks but of his predecessor—and replaced it with a mission of almost messianic outreach to our foes and most adamant competitors.
I tried to read the entire article, but it just got me too angry. But the author speaks the truth here.
..by taking the Oath!
The purpose of the Obama non-Nuclear declaration is to send a pacifistic signal to the Iranian Mullahs-Islamists that they are safe . . and a dig at the Israelis to weaken their standing in the area.
Israel can no longer count on a nuclear-armed America to shield them.
All Praise to Allah
Carter was a bufoon and a sissy...but Obama is an enemy combatant!
Got that right! Obama's "posture" is pulling down his pants and bending over while saying "Be gentle".
...”The purpose of the Obama non-Nuclear declaration is to send a pacifistic signal to the Iranian Mullahs-Islamists that they are safe . . and a dig at the Israelis to weaken their standing in the area.
Israel can no longer count on a nuclear-armed America to shield them.
All Praise to Allah”...
None of us want to think this is the case, but is it not becoming clear to those who have even half a brain to think with? Why else would a new President throw our Allies under the bus and cozy up to our enemies unless that is where his allegiance lies? America! America! How long can you take this? Each and every sunrise in this great nation brings another threat from Washington D.C. This will continue until some courageous Washington “insiders” decide to become statesmen/women.
Who is Barack Obama?
He is Jeremiah Wright with a Harvard Law Degree and a million-dollar smile.
Now you understand who Barack Obama is.
I dislike what you say, but am forced to agree with it.
Jimmah was elected solely as an adverse reaction to the resignation and PARDONING of Richard Nixon by President Ford.
Carter was an incompetent, but did not hate the USA. He was a failure, ousted after a single term, but did not attempt with malice aforethought to destroy his country.
I can’t believe I’m typing something nice about J. Carter.
Forgive me, please
You are right..In November we will see how many Americans are frightened by that.
Heheh...what you said!
--Observing Obama’s foreign policy, one comes away with the impression that he is profoundly embarrassed by American exceptionalism: We are a country like any other, and let no one tell us otherwise. He also views America’s international decline as irreversible:
--- In the Obama narrative, America has been a reckless source of trouble for the world because of its arrogant interventionism.
---Obama’s solution, in the words of Charles Hill, a professor at Yale, is the following:
“Close out the wars, disengage, and distance ourselves in order to carry out the real objective: the achievement of a European-style welfare state.Just as Reagan downsized government by starving it through budget cuts, Obama will downsize the military-industrial complex by directing so much money into health care, environ-o-care, etc., that we, like the Europeans, will have no funds available to maintain world power.
This will gain the confidence of those regimes adversarial to us as they recognize we will no longer be a threat to them and that we will acquiesce in their maintenance of power over their people.” All will be well with the world.----
I know HOW, I want it on record WHY.
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