Posted on 02/15/2012 1:31:07 PM PST by NYer
Per the Constitution, the funding would require authorization. It is NOT cheap to decommission nukes.
BUT not ONE significant politician of either party seems to give a s--- about the Constitution in these insane years.
The usual suspects.
I’m pretty sure that if the US deployment was reduced to 20% of its current size, we’d still have plenty enough to destroy the planet a dozen times over...
How soon we forget how the Cold War was won. We basically bankrupted the USSR because we out-built them with our nuclear weapons. That was the essence of winning that war without firing a shot.
This Obama srategy would shut down the rest of our Minuteman bases in Montana and the Dakotas.
I know about these things because I was a member 386th Strategic Missle Wing at Malmstrom AFB in 1962 we got all her missiles in the "green" during the Cuban Missle Crisis. We were under orders of JFK and Curtis LeMay to do that. That Wing is still there with newer generation warheads 50 years later in the very same silos.
Today I'll bet there isn't a poker player in the white house. JFK was the greatest poker player of that generation. Look what he used for chips!
He would have to first identify "them." He seems unable to figure out that Islam is at war with us and has been oficially after Beirut, unofficially for a little less than 2000 years. Unfortunately I suspect a majority of Christians can identify the enemy either.
Having said the Ron Paul is out to lunch, on everything except the Fed, which Hillary seems to be on the short list to take over, how cool is that?
Removed all reference to Jesus at the military schools, muzzled the Chaplains, can't say Jesus at a funeral....
Mark my words this fight over contraception is a tar baby, that has sharia written all over it.
[ He won’t be satisfied until we’re 100% disarmed. ]
If he had his way we would be totally disarmed, not just the nukes but guns too, heaven help us if we get attacked we would have to fight “uphill” using rocks and illegally kept firearms to gather more firearms from the enemy to fight back an invading force.
In a way I would welcome a Nuclear disarmament of the USA, so we could use the hostile nation nuking us to create a mad max situation where liberals would be the first to kick the bucket.
But that would be too much scorched earth for anyone, it would be a “cleansing fire” but the price would be too damned high.
Nope they take an Oath t defend the Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic, as do the people in office. They are doing neither at the moment.
[ A vote for Ron Paul is a direct slap in the face to the sacrifices my son has made for this country in both Iraq and in the Far East.
Your statement is a direct slap to the truth, and a direct slap in the face of thousands of military people who support Ron Paul.
Ron Paul has NOT said he’s against the military - he said he’s against the use of the military AS POLICE. And he’s pointed out that trying to do a job that they are Not trained for, is what is getting most of them killed.
So slap yourself, because there are a lot of dead US Military who got that way running around trying to play cop to a bunch of thugs, instead of destroying them or getting out.
Destroying them or getting out - that, VERBATIM, is Ron Paul’s declared use of the military.
And anyone who doesn’t agree with it, IMO, is slapping the face of every military person risking their lives RIGHT NOW who are forced to play footsie with a deadly enemy. ]
Ron Paul really needs to Stress that he is for a strong military that is prescribed in the constitution and not one that has been perverted by “Progressive Nation Building”.
He is just not all that good at “getting the message out”, so most people don’t catch the nuance.
Nation Building is catastrophic when the culture is 180 degrees from the occupying force. In 1940-50’s Germany and Japan their cultures were on a similar level or only few decades behind ours (japan was modernizing culturally 1860-1930’s ) not several centuries or over a thousand behind like it is with the people in the middle east.
We expect to Nation Build like we did after WW-II in these hell holes, we come from the false supposition of “cultural relativism” when we really should have made a judgement call that were weren’t re-building a near modern European country and instead a country where barbarism is the soup de jour.
Your son’s sacrifices are appreciated, but I have no confidence that this Administration is pursuing a strategy that makes those sacrifices sensible.
And having only 300 nuclear weapons puts America at risk in a way that far exceeds anything going on in the Mideast. It is our Republican leaders slapping us in the face by tolerating the traitors in this Administration, starting at the top.
I commend the following anti-Paul article to your attention (http://www.steynonline.com/4812/paul-the-parochial); it begins:
“Uncle Sam has now spent a decade running around the Hindu Kush building grade schools and shoveling taxpayer-funded Viagra to every elderly village headman with one too many child brides. According to the World Bank, the Western military/aid presence accounts for 97 percent of Afghanistan’s GDP. And, within a week of the West’s departure, it will be as if that 97 percent had never been there, and all that remains will be the same old 3 percent tribal dump of mullahs, warlords, poppy barons, and pederasts, all as charmingly unspoiled as if the U.S. and its allies had quit 48 hours after toppling the Taliban in 2001.
“It is two-thirds of a century since the alleged hyperpower last unambiguously won a war, and that ought to prompt a little serious consideration of the matter.”
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FURP!
I do not think that this will happen. This would emasculate our defenses severely. In light of Moscow’s and Bejing’s buildup and modernization of their nuclear forces. This also is a threat of Tehran’s quest for an ICBM missile. All of these are ideas that are floating around.
You need to do a little research on Leon Panetta who is most assuredly cheering this on.
I also have to add that every treaty we have signed with the Russians on nuclear arms and ABM defense has been broken by them.
Too bad we don't have a free press - if we did one of 'em could ask your question - ask rather than pull out their knee pads...
Secondly, the Chinese has never been included in any arms negotiation treaty.
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