Sarah Palin: Another “WTF” Obama Foreign Policy Moment

Sarah Palin's Facebook Notes ^ | June 9, 2011 | Sarah Palin

[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

[yldstrk]

According to the administration’s position, we no longer have enemies........

[McGruff]

Palin needs to bone up on her foreign policy experience if she wants to be taken seriously. [/sarc]

What's Mitten's stance on this? *crickets*

[SERKIT]

Uuuuhhh, how about: “He hates the United States of America?”

That works, too.

[nikos1121]

Go pour yourself another cup of coffee...have that precious normal BM to start your day...and be sure to tell all your friends out there that you found another reason not to support Palin.

You remind me of my brother.

Let’s face it folks, the media has done a great, and I mean great job marginalizing Sarah to the point that people like my brother and “demshateGod” have no time to look beyond what they think is Sarah unelectability....

WTF stands for “Win the Future”.... not what you’re thinking...Another touche for Sarah...

Anyway, sorry to offend you, but that’s my two cents worth....

[bvw]

WTF?

Goolsbee -- the failed economic advisor to Obama. (Not a working video link, just an image linked from the official White House site.)

WTF is the kind of crap that passes for "progressive" economic analysis.

See "Winning the future" is NOT JUST a great slogan; It Is About CHANGING the Way We Think. That's a link to yet another bad progressive essay about an administration it wants to love.

The money quote is this:

What "Win the Future" is about is feeling better about tomorrow because today sucks so bad.

Palin's right. This administration is ALL WTF!

[GlockThe Vote]

Bump.

[ardara]

We are fortunate to have Sarah.Good to hear someone who talks about the ISSUES.

[6SJ7]

[gov_bean_ counter]

have that precious normal BM to start your day

Really dont' think one is going to do it. Head will have to be removed from orifice first...

[GoCards]

I know exactly what that meant but being a new poster on facebook I wanted to share to my wall but am having second thoughts because of WTF. I have many kids on my facebook friends, thats a whole different issue there. KIDS SHOULD NOT BE ON FACEBOOK. I friend my kids friends to keep an eye, but good gravy.

[Bigtigermike]

Obviously, [Ms] Palin is “not serious” about global matters and does not seem to care in studying up on such issues as concerning the United States, these Geo-political issues are complexed and weighty and thus cannot be explain by rudimentary means like Facebook but by serious thinkers and group “think tanks” and foreign counterparts alike. May Almighty save us from people like [Ms] Palin that is so contemptuous against knowing issues outside of the contiguous United States. /s

[Will88]

On April 14, 39 Republican senators sent a letter to the president expressing their concern over the administration's consideration of granting to the Russians sensitive U.S. technology and "red button" authority to prevent the interception of incoming missiles headed for U.S. troops or allies. This would allow Russia to deny the United States the ability to intercept a missile Washington had determined to be a threat.

From the Foreign Policy article Sarah references. That sounds even worse, totally insane that anyone would even consider it. Or Obama does not want the US to be able to defend itself.

Giving Away the Farm

[unseen1]

winning the future

[LJM]

If it really bothers you, just copy/paste it to your Facebook with attribution, leaving the last sentence out.

[G Larry]

Obama hates America, the Constitution, Democracy, Capitalism, and Israel.

All of his policies prove this!

[IMissPresidentReagan]

You can post and “hide” certain people from being able to see that particular post.

[GoCards]

Oh really!! How do I do it, hide that post from certain people. While I have you how do you get rid of the chat box in the corner? :) I need facebook for dummies!!

[IMissPresidentReagan]

I don’t know how to get rid of that stupid little box, but I always stay offline so no one can chat with me.

When you go to post, underneath the box you type in, there should be a little padlock icon with a down arrow, click on it and choose the custom option. A custom Privacy box will pop up and at the bottom it will say “Hide this from” and you can type in the names. I do this all the time, since I have a lot of my younger brother’s friends on my FB page. I actually made it my default custom setting, so that if I do post something I want them to see, I can just choose all friends instead of custom.

[alstewartfan]

Most Americans are dumb as stumps, politically. We elected a rabble-rouser with racist and terrorist connections, who never ran a lemonade stand, yet 58% of REPUBLICANS don’t want Sarah to run.
I want to know: Where are Herman, Michele, Milt, Newt, etc, writing common sense, pithy comments about the Punk’s disasters of the day? Not to worry! Simply read Sarah’s postings, and y’all will know what to say! PALIN/RUBIO ‘12!! Bob

[rbmillerjr]

Everybody should SHARE this on Facebook.

Even my liberal Dem friends and Moderates are calling Obama a Traitor on this one.