http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/appeasement/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:12:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286545/posts Here is video of President Obama announcing a "joint understanding" he has signed with Russian President Medvedev that would reduce U.S. and Russian Nuclear Arsenals by one-third. Obama called the treaty he has signed a "legally binding agreement." Nothing was said about the U.S. Constitutional provision requiring the approval of the U.S. Senate to ratify treaties. . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286545/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:12:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286671/posts MOSCOW (AP) — President Barack Obama says he expects to complete a review of the U.S. plan for building missile defense systems in Europe by the end of the summer. At a joint news conference with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (dih-MEE'-tree med-VYEH'-dyev), Obama said that once the review is finished he will provide the Russian government with his assessment of how to resolve differences over the project. Obama said he expects that to lead to extensive negotiations. Russia strongly opposes the U.S. project, which was initiated by the administration of President George W. Bush. Earlier, the two leaders issued a... google.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286671/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 18:44:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286283/posts In recent times, that is, during June of 2009, President Barack Obama has recoiled at efforts at fighting the oppressors in Iran. He has allowed the political situation in Iran to escalate into the crisis it is today. At the time of this writing, protests in the streets have broken out over the rigged election. The red flags should have been flying in the Commander in Chief’s face already. Iran has been advancing their nuclear weapon program at a dangerously rapid rate, constantly waving the fact at the West. The rest has been very well documented. Political corruption has been... American Solvent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286283/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:11:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286248/posts MOSCOW -- With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty. abcnew.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286248/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:23:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285743/posts MOSCOW, July 4 (RIA Novosti) - The speaker of the Russian parliament's upper house said Saturday the United States could give up its plans to deploy a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. RIANOVOSTI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285743/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 03:17:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285763/posts President Obama's myopic pursuit of engaging the Islamist terrorist regime policy has made him reluctant to upset the Iranian government. His weak response to Iranian government's reign of terror against its own people, not only goes against the most basic of American values, but it has also struck fear in the hearts of those looking to bring freedom and democracy to the Middle East. Beyond that it seems that Obama is backing off on sanctions against Iran, the latest reports say that he is fighting against new sanctions being imposed at the upcoming G8 summit. The President is acting like... JPOST/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285763/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 04:51:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285013/posts President Dmitry Medvedev and US counterpart Barack Obama are next week planning to sign a framework declaration replacing a key Cold War-era missile treaty, Medvedev's top foreign aide said on Friday. Sergei Prikhodko also said Russia wanted to agree with the US a replacement of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) -- set to expire in early December -- by end of this year or early 2010. breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285013/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:17:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284830/posts As diplomats prepare for the G8 Summit, many are working toward a resolution to impose additional economic sanctions on Iran. There is one country working hard to prevent new sanctions, the United States. Apparently Europe feels that Iran's continued development of its nuclear weapons program, its crackdown on their own people and the arrest of British Diplomats is worthy of new sanctions. President Obama's myopic pursuit of his engage the Islamist terrorist regime policy is making him reluctant to upset the Iranian government, with new sanctions. Its Neville Chamberlain time in the oval office: Haaretz/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284830/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:16:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281502/posts "David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, has issued a sharp rebuke to Iran after the arrests, which are part of a campaign by the clerical regime in Iran against what it has portrayed as foreign interference in its politics. The employees were arrested on suspicion of playing a role in the demonstrations that followed Iran's disputed presidential election. Those demonstrations, which saw calls for a re-run amid allegations of widespread vote rigging, have now largely fizzled out after a crackdown by regime." "Fars, a semi-official Iranian news agency, first announced the arrests and said the staff had helped foment protests against... UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281502/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:20:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280700/posts Highlights of this article from the Bulletin: "The recently launched Two Futures Project is a collection of young Evangelicals who are dedicated to working toward a nuclear-weapon-free world. Although Evangelicals traditionally have supported nuclear deterrence the Two Futures Project believes that in a post-Cold War world, this stance must change. Accordingly, its members believe that nuclear weapons are morally bankrupt." Actually, nuclear weapons, like book matches, are morally neutral. It is when these things are in the hands of morally bankrupt people, arsonists, dictators, and tyrannical regimes such as North Korea and Iran, that is where the danger is. The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280700/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:28:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280048/posts Soon after brave Iranians began putting their lives on the line for freedom, justice, and a better life, Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the violence by Iran’s government and supported fundamental human rights for Iran’s people. (The same Nicolas Sarkozy, by the way, who, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, characterized candidate Obama’s Iran policy as “utterly immature” and composed of “formulations empty of all content.”) So did Gordon Brown stand for principle. And the EU leadership. And both houses of the U.S. Congress. However, except for squeaking a few platitudes, Barack Obama remained largely silent about an uprising that could lead... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280048/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:16:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278229/posts On Jan. 20, 2007, five American soldiers were killed and three seriously wounded in Iraq. As Bill Roggio relates at the Long War Journal, it was a daring operation: a twelve-man terrorist team disguised as U.S. servicemen attacked our troops as they held a previously arranged meeting with local officials in Karbala. Four of the soldiers were alive when they were abducted from the scene. They were handcuffed and murdered in a remote location when the coalition forces attempting to rescue them closed in. ... That President Obama has exchanged a terrorist for hostages is now obvious, as should be... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278229/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:10:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275799/posts AMSTERDAM, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday he hopes his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in July in Moscow will promote a new nuclear disarmament treaty. "We are ready to cut our strategic delivery vehicles by several times compared to the START-1 treaty. As for warheads connected with these delivery vehicles, their number should be lower than the level envisioned by the Moscow Treaty of 2002," Medvedev told journalists. "We are for real, effective and checkable cuts," he said, adding that at the meeting with Obama they will also discuss economic and regional problems,... RIA Novosti http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275799/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:10:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275562/posts Friday, 19 June 2009 World 'watching Iran', Obama says US President Barack Obama has warned Iran that "the world is watching", after its supreme leader criticised voters who protested over the election. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said opposition leaders would be blamed for further "bloodshed" if protests did not stop. President Obama said that the way the authorities dealt with people who were "trying to be heard" would send a message to the international community. More protests are due on Saturday as poll officials meet losing candidates. The Guardian Council - Iran's main electoral authority - has invited Mir Hossein Mousavi,... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275562/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:44:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2275415/posts Jimmeh Carter is the most unsuccessful president in the history of the United States of America. If it wasn't for Jimmy-boy malaise would not be a regular part of the political vernacular. If it wasn't for the peanut President the American culture would never heard of Billy Beer. But Carter's biggest contribution to the world is taking the west's best friend in the Muslim World and turning it into the fascist Islamic, soon to be nuclear Iran. And that is Jimmy Carter's legacy Not the books, or the anti-semetic diatribes, or even the Habitat for Humanity Houses in Florida that... Front Page Mag/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2275415/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:29:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273833/posts Perhaps no part of the Obama administration’s planned Defense Department budget makes less sense than its effort to slash $1.2B from missile defense programs for FY 2010. In light of the recent behavior of North Korea and the reminder that we face the prospect of a nuclear-armed revolutionary Islamic state in Iran, a group of Republican congressmen on the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday offered a series of amendments seeking to reverse the proposed cuts. Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273833/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:38:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273629/posts Reading David Horowitz’s chapter on “The Path to 9-11,” in his book, Party of Defeat, it is blood-chilling to read the text and, while doing so, substitute the name Barack Hussein Obama for the names of our last two Democrat presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and to substitute Islamic jihad for the Communist threat. For starters, begin in March 1975 when Tony Lake, who later served as Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor, published a column in the Washington Post, arguing for a suspension of aid to the anti-Communist regime in Cambodia. It was boilerplate liberal foreign policy, reminiscent of... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273629/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:24:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271315/posts With the United States looking to cut defense costs and rethinking the way it fights wars, many defense companies are looking for international buyers to take the big, pricey weapons that the Pentagon no longer wants or needs fewer of. U.S. contractors are chasing some lucrative deals, but could also face some legal and political hurdles as they hawk weapons overseas. FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271315/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:20:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2269981/posts Just today there was an article written by Jpost staffer Elie Leshem entitled " MK's To Peres: Stop Talking Peace." That article has now completely disappeared from the Jpost site. It has the same link, but the link now leads to an entirely different article alltogether entitled, "Officials: Speech Reports Baseless", written by Herb Keinon. Below is the letter that was sent to Elie Lesham via editors@jpost.com: To Elie Leshem, Just read your article on the Jpost website: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371075266&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull You chose a "title" for your article that is both journalistically dishonest and factually incorrect. That title gives the false impression... Amerisrael http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2269981/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:49:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269405/posts Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said his country could give up nuclear weapons if everyone else that had them did the same. The remarks came as Russian and US officials negotiate a successor to the 1991 Start treaty on arms reduction, which expires in December. US President Barack Obama will discuss the issue in Moscow next month with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. Meanwhile a top general said Russia should not go below 1,500 warheads. Col-Gen Nikolai Solovtsov, who commands Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces, said Moscow needed this number to ensure its own security. But he added that the... BBC News (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269405/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:50:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268996/posts MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia must keep at least 1,500 nuclear warheads after talks with the United States on a new arms treaty, Interfax news agency quoted the commander of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces as saying Wednesday. If Moscow's final position reflects Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov's view, it would mean Russia is not willing to cut its stockpiles by more than a few hundred strategic warheads - far less than some arms control bodies had hoped. "In this contract on a new strategic forces treaty, Russia must not have less than 1,500 nuclear warheads, but this decision is up to the political... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268996/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:35:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2265880/posts Frank Gaffney has written an excellent article analysis on Obama's Speech in Cairo, Egypt. Is Obama really a Christian? From the article: "Perhaps the most stunning bit of dawa of all was a phrase the President employed that, on its face, denies the divinity of Jesus - something surprising from a self-described committed Christian." "In connection with his discussion of the "situation between Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs," Mr. Obama said, "...When Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in... Center For Security Policy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2265880/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:39:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265374/posts WASHINGTON- Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is extremely frustrated with a new negotiating tactic that the White House is contemplating. In an attempt to curtail aggressive actions by the North Korean government, including firing long- and short-range missiles, in an internal memo President Obama has offered a compromised approach: a limited amount of small nuclear weaponry in exchange for the end of provocative actions. Henry James http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265374/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:14:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264541/posts It is time for President Obama to recognise that his strategy is weakening his country and making the United States more vulnerable to attack, says Nile Gardiner. No leader in American history has gone to greater lengths than Barack Obama to make amends for his own country. From condemnation of American “arrogance” in a speech in Strasbourg to acknowledging U.S. “mistakes” before millions of Muslims on Arab television, Obama has rarely missed an opportunity to apologise for the actions of the American people. President Obama has elevated the art of national self-loathing to new heights, and seems to delight in... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264541/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:41:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264620/posts From today's speech in Cairo: "a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations". .... "No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons." http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Barack-Obama-US-President-Addresses-The-Muslim-World-From-Egypt/Article/200906115295746?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15295746_Barack_Obama%3A_US_President_Addresses_The_Muslim_World_From_Egypt _________________________________________________ From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:Profile: Institute For Policy Studies (IPS) IPS’s [Institute For Policy Studies] Washington, DC headquarters quickly became a resource center for national reporters and a place for KGB agents from the nearby Soviet embassy to convene and strategize. Cora Weiss headed... various sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264620/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:41:10 GMT