Posted on 06/09/2011 4:37:11 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
As Governor I fought the Obama Administration’s plans to cut funds for missile defense in Alaska. So imagine how appalled and surprised I was to read this article by former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, appropriately titled “Giving Away the Farm,” concerning President Obama’s latest bizarre actions relating to missile defense.
President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can’t buy off Russia. And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability. What happens if Russia gives this technology (or sells it!) to other countries like Iran or China? After all, as Woolsey points out, Russia helped Iran with its missile and nuclear programs. Or what happens if an even more hardline leader comes to power in the Kremlin?
We tried buying off the Kremlin with technologies in the 1970s. That policy was a component of “detente,” and the hope was that if we would share our technologies with them, they would become more peaceful. Things, of course, didn’t work out that way. The Kremlin took western technologies and embarked on a massive military building program. History teaches that peace comes from American military strength. And a central component of that has always been technological superiority. Why would President Obama even dream of giving this away?
Members of Congress saw how foolish President Obama’s gambit was, so they put a section in the defense appropriation bill that specifically forbids the federal government from spending money to share these technologies with the Kremlin. President Obama actually threatened to veto the defense appropriation bill over this section of the law! Fortunately, the House passed the bill with a veto-proof majority, a whopping 322 to 96. Attention now turns to the Senate.
Why is it that President Obama seems to work so hard to give things to our enemies, while at the same time asking friends and allies like Israel to make sacrifices?
During these tough economic times when we are facing massive deficits and a competitive global economy, does President Obama really want to give away technologies that the American taxpayer paid lots of money to develop? Giving away our missile defense secrets won’t make us safer. What it will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with ourselves. Russia gets access to our technologies, and we are forced to spend even more money because of the need to stay ahead. Does this make sense to you? Me neither. File this under “WTF”.
- Sarah Palin
Classy.
Whether she meant "File this under Win The Future" or not, I agree with you as to its showing lack of class. "Corrupt bastards" had no other meaning and is classless also.
Sarah uses language manipulation as a basis for many of her political attacks. She entertains her base, while angering her opponents and their base.
This "creative" tongue-lashing has caused an overwhelming emotional response from the left, and while exciting her dedicated throngs, encourages increased verbal abuse toward Sarah, herself.
I would see her as victim, if she didn't deliberately initiate attacks in ways unbecoming of a conservative and Christian. We are told to restrain ourselves from such behavior, not to build a career around it.
HAH!!!
Should we keep smelling salts on hand?
“Classy. She’s now back in the mix with the people I’ll probably never vote for.”
That cements it, she’s the only one I’ll vote for!!!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Like I’ve said in other posts. I might vote for her in the general, I might not. The only thing I like about her is the establishment hates her, but that might just be an establishment trick to pick our nominee again.
You should vote for Herman Cain.
There are a lot of things to dislike about her. McCain is at the forefront of them. However, I could be won over, it’s just not happening. I have to be honest don’t I?
Never!
Probably not, because the establishment will have our nominee picked for us before we get a chance to vote the primary. It’ll be Romney. I’ll go on and on about how I will never vote for him but then change my mind when I see the SEIU dragging people to the polling place.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....snarf!
...just a leaf floating in the wind, thrown hither and there at the slightest gust, directionless...
What to do, what to do.
That describes me perfectly.
Thanks for posting!
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