"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
Posted on 04/10/2010 4:41:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
If any nation wants to attack the United States with chemical, biological or electromagnetic pulse weapons, it need not fear nuclear retaliation as long as it has no nuclear weapons and abides by the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Obama has announced.
So, as New Yorkers are coughing their lungs out from mustard gas or dying in the streets of biological weapons, they will know that their government will not use nuclear weapons to retaliate against their murderers.
In effect, Obama has said if you are a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and do not have nuclear weapons, we will not hit you with nuclear bombs even if you unleash poison gas or biological microbes in crowed American cities or cripple our economy by a massive electromagnetic pulse.
His incredible announcement amounts to a green light for anti-American nations to hit our cities with gas or poisons, resting secure in the knowledge that we will not use our nuclear arsenal to reply.
The Nuclear Policy Review, issued by the Pentagon yesterday, said that "the U.S. does not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states party to the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) and (who are) meeting their obligations." Defense Secretary Robert Gates went on to say that "there is a limited range of contingencies in which U.S. nuclear weapons may have a role to stop an attack with conventional or chemical or biological weapons."
He said that these contingencies only included countries "that possess nuclear weapons or that do not comply with their nonproliferation obligations." In other words, if Iran, India, Pakistan or North Korea hits us with chemical weapons, we will reply with nuclear retaliation. But if any other nation (like a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan) does so, we will only use conventional weapons to retaliate.
Republicans should reply by introducing a bill in the Senate committing the United States to a nuclear response should any nation attack us with biological, chemical or electromagnetic pulse weapons. Let the Democrats vote against it. Let them filibuster it. Let them explain why we will not use our strongest weapons to deter an attack that could kill millions of our citizens or immobilize our entire economy!
Obama's motivations for this absurd policy are plain enough. He wants to up the ante for Iran and make it clear that the Islamic Republic can develop crippling weapons for use against the United States without going nuclear. He wants to invest chemical, biological and electromagnetic pulse weaponry with an impunity that can only be obtained at the price of nuclear virginity.
But think about the consequences of his policy! Are we really going to overlook so horrendous an attack and confine our response to cruise missiles with conventional warheads or a few divisions of American soldiers? Is it really material to our nation whether millions of our fellow citizens die of a nuclear bomb or are slain by chemical or biological weaponry?
Obama has violated the Ronald Reagan rule that a president must "never say never." He has eliminated the ambiguity that has kept us safe for decades and made it clear that our nation will not use its full resources to defend its citizenry even if millions are obliterated by heinous biological or chemical weaponry.
He has made a big mistake, and the Republicans must pounce on it.
I tremble with tearful rage ... God, help me to be in control.
Why...it wouldn’t be fair to nuke someone for gassing a few thousand Americans or causing a plague that kills several thousands. What would Europe think of us? Hugs and understanding would be better./s
“The philosophical aspect of nuclear weapons can be peaceful and they act as a deterrent. So, I call them weapons of peace...”
- Anil Kakodkar, Indian Atomic Energy Commission.
March 19, 2010.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20100319/1416/tnl-nukes-are-weapons-of-peace-kakodkar.html
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
bttt
[Found before a crumbling statue of Emperor-by-Trick Barack Hussein Obama
in a glass filled desert comprising what was once known as the ‘USA’]
"We first heard of an undocumented man named Obama ,
Who denied all the confusion with a Kenyan and Osama.
At every turn, he worked to have our country defeated,
With every enemy, he conspired to have us deleted,
Smiled he, 'If death panels aren’t enough, I'll just let them chemically bomb ya'."
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
How would they know that? Just because Pres_ent Obama said so? Would you willingly bet your country on his telling the truth?
Obama’s motivations pure stupidity.
really dont care what happens to registered Democrats in todays USA.
The enemy is the 53 million brain dead idiots who call themselves Americans who voted this closet Ayers disciple and protege into office.
If/when we are attacked, the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost will be on their collective heads, the ones who wanted so badly to expiate their white guilt by voting for a black—any black.
Just last night I heard Sally Quinn of the New York Times being interviewed by Fox News and she said “don’t worry—Obama has built into the nuclear policy change wiggle room”—so that when the U.S. is attacked, it will be permitted to retaliate. Oh, that’s just wonderful!!!!
The supposed conservative bimbo who was “interviewing” her dismally FAILED to object to the glaring absence of the option of preemptive first strike. It is that which has been taken out of the U.S. arsenal by BHO, and which will constitute America’s final Achilles heel.
This is what happens when liberals speak out about issues of which they have no understanding.
To most liberals it’s morally unacceptable for a person or a nation (the two, in their simplistic minds, are synonymous) to preemptively attack anyone. But it’s schoolyard okay to throw a punch after someone has hit you first.
This is currently the policy in Afghanistan for our soldiers where the ROE state do not fire unless first fired upon.
Entire madness. This phony “moral superiority” is a perverse and suicidal strategic philosophy which if slavishly followed will cause the massive loss of innocent American lives and as such it must be vigorously and strenuously opposed.
I can’t recall a President ever announcing to the world....a line he WILL NOT cross to protect his citizens.
Hopefully there are some powerful men somewhere in the US who are plotting to take down the Kenyan.
And it can’t come soon enough!
EMP weapons ARE nuclear, Mr. President.
Oh, liberals have understanding.
It's virtue and conscience that they scorn.
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