Posted on 05/27/2009 10:04:28 AM PDT by La Lydia
North Korea celebrated Memorial Day with an underground test of a nuclear weapon reportedly the size of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. With that and a series of missile launches, the regime in Pyongyang has sent an unmistakable signal: The Hermit Kingdom has nothing but contempt for the so-called "international community" and the empty rhetoric and diplomatic posturing that usually precede new rewards for the North's bad behavior...
Until now (Japan and South Korea) have nestled under the U.S. nuclear umbrella...made possible by what is known in the national-security community as "extended deterrence." Thanks to the credibility of U.S. security guarantees backed by America's massive arsenal, both countries have been able safely to forgo the option their respective nuclear-power programs long afforded them...
A bipartisan blue-ribbon panel recently warned the Obama administration that extended deterrence cannot be taken for granted...
...Far from taking the myriad steps needed to assure both the visibility and credibility of the U.S. deterrent, Mr. Obama has embraced the idea of eliminating that arsenal as part of a bid for "a nuclear-free world."
The practical effect of such a policy direction is to eschew the steps called for by the Strategic Posture Commission...The Obama administration is, nonetheless, seeking no funds for replacing existing weapons with designs that include modern safety features, let alone ones more suited to the deterrent missions of today - against states such as North Korea and Iran rather than the hardened silos of the Soviet Union. It is allowing the steady atrophying of the work force and facilities of the Department of Energy's nuclear-weapons complex.
Arguably worst of all, Team Obama is pursuing an arms-control agenda that risks making matters substantially worse...The administration is equally fixated on another non-solution to today's threats: ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Just our sissy President...once he's gone, we'll return to our kick-@ss nature.
With the unaccomplished, Ivy League Zero as Commander in Chief, it is a gossamer thin tissue Paper Tiger.
Will Obama take us lower than Jimmy Carter
This alone should be sufficient cause for removing the usurping muslim appeaser from office.
Where’s Joe Biden? He said that this president would be tested. This is one such test. I wonder what Obama will do besides his Memorial Day speech that expressed anger at North Korea.
Will Obama take us lower than Jimmy Carter
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The POS will take us as low as he is allowed.
Ha! Joke is on them! As soon as Obama heard this, he ordered thicker paper!!
More like a paper puppy dog - we don’t even pretend to look fierce.
“With the unaccomplished, Ivy League Zero as Commander in Chief, it is a gossamer thin tissue Paper Tiger.”
Single ply
We’re definitely a paper tiger when our “leader” is this pussy in Washington.
More like a paper puppy dog - we don't even pretend to look fierce.
Zero has negated it all.
When American policy changes at a whim, and the political people making it seem to be for sale, there is little cause for concern.
He already has if you ask me. This impotent little pissant as the biggest failure in the history of this nation.
Well, he did go play golf after the speech. Perhaps he took his anger out on the course with a few well targeted, and deep, divots and a bent club, or two.
But it’s about time we stop being paternalistic with the Japanese and S. Koreans and let them start doing more to defend themselves. We wouldn’t cut them off overnight, but gradually they have to get their butts in gear. I wouldn’t mind seeing the Japanese with nukes, that would surely give the Chinese a bit of diarrhea.
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