Obama's Poor Posture: The United States slouches toward unilateral nuclear disarmament

The Washington Times ^ | April 7, 2010 | Editorial

[Abakumov]

President Obama pledged to rid the world of nuclear weapons, and he's starting with the United States. The new U.S. nuclear posture puts the country flat on its back....

Under Mr. Obama's initiative, America will forfeit its historical advantage as a technological innovator and cede future advances in nuclear weapons to other countries. This is bassackwards, since modernization efforts could lead to the development of smaller, more effective nuclear warheads that would enable further reductions in U.S. arsenals while maintaining or augmenting deterrence capabilities.

Instead, America is taking a pledge to pursue nuclear obsolescence. This fits neatly in Mr. Obama's anti-nuclear ideological framework, but as a deterrence or war-fighting strategy, it is counterproductive. The new nuclear posture signals weakness and lack of resolve. It commits the United States to slow-motion, unilateral nuclear disarmament and encourages non-nuclear states to examine options for the use of force that had previously been impractical, given the possibility of an American nuclear response.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

He means to get us all killed.

[LouAvul]

He’s no different than any other recent democRATic piece of filth, er, commander in chief. Carter, Clinton, Obama. The Rats are just inferior, stupid people, who keep electing garbage to the highest office in the land.

[FrankR]

[blackbart.223]

Obama is the product of years of pacifism. A philosophy that history proves never works and causes more death and destruction than standing firm ever has. I think Obama did too much pot and blow while reading socialist pap when he was at Harvard. Of course his upbringing didn't help much.

[M. Espinola]

[M. Espinola]

Great graphic!