Obama Plans Major Shifts to Reduce Nuclear Arsenal

Newmax.com ^ | 2/16/09 | Dave Eberhart

[mojitojoe]

If he has his way, President Barack Obama will dramatically change the nuclear weapons policy of the U.S. – leaving behind Cold War doctrine and looking to a model of a minimal nuclear arsenal -- just ominous enough to do the job of deterrence. Obama may be mired in the economic stimulus debate, but the clock is also relentlessly ticking on some volatile policy decisions regarding the nation’s aging nuclear arsenal – the stuff of that deterrence. Foreign nations, friend and foe, are poised to discover Obama’s nuclear agenda, while some critics within the U.S. are fearful that the new president will go too far, too fast.

[mojitojoe]

Among the weighty decisions on the president’s plate is whether to extend or renegotiate the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) with Russia, which run outs at the end of 2009, and whether to press for ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) -- with which the U.S. only voluntarily complies, according to a report in USA Today.

The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military testing or civilian purposes.

“This is not just a decision about the future of U.S. nuclear weapons, but about how the United States will address the challenges of … nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation and our entire 21st-century nuclear strategy,” Clark Murdock, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told USA Today.

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_nuclear_policy/2009/02/16/182362.html

[Jonathan]

When the Chinese and the Soviets nuke us into the stone age . . . please remember this “leader” of ours and his decisions.

We are going to pay.

[Seaplaner]

Remember folks, the KEYSTONE of the Obama/Ayers Doctrine is to weaken our military defenses and to malign and demoralize our precious troops.

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[utherdoul]

We’re boned if something happens during his term. However this may be something of a mixed blessing, when we get a good republican president back in we’ll start updating our arsenal.

a third of the missles with ten times the firepower.

[Williams]

OMG.

Folks Rev Wright taught him our nuclear weapons are evil The American people awere so foolish electing this joker.

[Veto!]

The Saudi-owned president begins destroying the USA right out of the shoots.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Williams]

His plan is for “minimal” protection. Sound wise?

[Williams]

Don’t forget the Sec of State is Saudi and Chinese owned as well, but it would be too impolite for any republicans to say it.

[Teacher317]

As I continually assert, the Left is eager to domonish absolutely any aspect of American life and government that represents traditional definitions of strength.
Energy? Limit it (using "carbon footprints" as an excuse).
Military? Cut funding, cut troop numbers (and call it cuts in federal employment, as Clinton did), and cut benefits (I read that insurance benefits for veterans are about to get hit next).
Economy? Spend, spend, spend, and tax, tax, tax. Not exactly a recipe for a vibrant and healthy economy. (The Left tells us that it's okay, the benevolent government will use that money to "help people"... but again, that is not a traditional definition of national strength.)
Steadfastness in the face of enemies? As usual, the Left defaults to talk, talk, talk rather than shows of strength when foreign leaders like Kim Jong Il, Admenijad, and Saddam get/got in the mood to preen (and in the case of Kim Jong Il, we've established a pattern of placating him with money and food and technology... only to wait for the next time he wants to act up and get some more).

The Left does not want a strong America. They want a "fair" America... which means we have to reduce ourselves to the military, economic, and productivity levels of Belgium and Sweden... and they're doing their level best to obtain those, to me, rather clear goals.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I feel so safe already. Not!

[EagleUSA]

The America-hater will make Carter and Clinton look like boy scouts when it comes to ruining our national defense deterrent.

[Teacher317]

(you say “domonish”, I say “diminish”, LOL)

[silverleaf]

ah- nuclear deterrence

maybe we have finally found a subject at which the strategic community organizer excels

s-a-r-c

[Da Coyote]

Sad. The Obamaloon couldn’t pass a freshman physics course and he’s gonna tell us how to regulate our weapons stash.

[WayneS]

I’ll take a couple off his hands.

[WayneS]

That’s why I don’t mind saying it.

I am NOT a Republican!

[Dixie Yooper]

As long as he leaves us with enough nukes to blow up the entire World once, I’m OK with it.

[petro45acp]

A55H@!!!!!

WE ARE SO BONED!

[silverleaf]

“minimal protection” is always such an astute position for the leader of a nation to strive for in determining what will prevent people like Putin, Chia Pet, and Ahmadnutjob from even thinking about destroying tens of millions of American lives... don’t you think?