post WWII era knows it was leftist spies who passed our nuclear secrets to the USSR.
It should say commie bastards like Oppenhiemer lets nuclear genie out of the bottle. He wasn’t the only one helping Russia either.
“I was struck by the reference to Lincoln and the Maryland succession attempt.”
I don’t view Lincoln as great defender of American freedoms, but rather, as the father of a bullying Federal government.
If the Constitution is to mean anything we cannot tolerate “ends justifying the means” action by any President - Lincoln, Nixon, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Obama. Conservatives who complain about Obama trashing the Constitution who will then turn around and justify a “conservative” President attacking another country without Congressional approval are hypocrites. Laws and agreements either have meaning or they don’t.
It should also be mentioned that our leaders are cowardly.
This, because one of their strictest rules is to forbid the assassination of “foreign leaders”. The *only* reason for this is to protect their own precious rear ends from assassination by enemy nations, as a quid pro quo.
The executive order that established this vital rule was put in place by Gerald Ford, and remains one of their most cherished rules.
But compare and contrast. The fictional character James Bond, though this was not said as such, had a primary role important enough for him to be issued a “License to Kill”. This role was to assassinate *anyone* who either threatened the nuclear weapons of the western powers; *and* to assassinate *anyone* who proliferated nuclear weapons.
This means that, in practice, Bond was licensed to kill anyone from the nuclear proliferator Mr. Kahn, of Pakistan, to those socialism crazed fruitcake nuns who take sledgehammers to the concrete of nuclear missile silos.
Oddly enough, the US now has a vast number of men who could, and would likely be willing, to perform such James Bond roles, in the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM). They could have been used to exterminate anyone in the ME who so much as mentioned nuclear weapons in an affirmative sense.
Their penetration into Iran right now is no doubt substantial, and were they to be used in an more assertive way, their nuclear program would now be in shambles, and their alleyways littered with the earthly remains of their nuclear physicists and technicians.
