In The 'Motherland' Obama Inks A Deal To Weaken America

Okay, let's say you and your family live in a dangerous neighborhood.  Down the block is a home occupied by a gang of thugs well known for murder, home invasions and their alliances with other mobs in the neighborhood.  For self defense purposes you keep weapons in your home.  Unlike the thugs, you have never threatened to use them against anybody except in self defense.  You have good reason to believe the thugs are armed too.

Would you think it a wise idea to go down to their turf and say to them, "We'd like to get along with you better, so I have an idea.  We will get rid of some of our weapons if you get rid of some of yours."

And just to help make your point you have your cute little daughter parade down the street with a bouquet of daisies.

Some think that Obama's trip to Moscow was roughly equivalent to the above scenario:

President Obama has to date failed to articulate any coherent strategic rationale for the substantial cuts in nuclear weapons and delivery systems he agreed to Monday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Obama's inability to do so is not surprising, because he made these commitments without waiting for an up-to-date "nuclear posture review," the definitive mechanism for assessing America's strategic needs.

Avoiding this authoritative process, coupled with the administration's hell-for-leather insistence on ratifying a new treaty by December, and its proposed cuts in missile-defense expenditures and critical weapons systems such as the F-22, demonstrate just how ideologically committed Obama is to a less robust U.S. defense posture. Not only are the proposed cuts in nuclear weapons levels dangerous, but the reductions in delivery systems are even more reckless, as the United States now significantly relies on such systems to deliver conventional warheads. Russia does not.

Obama's approach weakens our nuclear and conventional capabilities, while leaving Russia exactly at levels to which it would otherwise be driven by its own bleak economic realities. Moreover, Russia still insists on linking reductions in U.S. missile defenses to offensive cuts, and Obama hasn't unequivocally rejected this dangerous connection.

Obama's policy is risky for America and its global allies who shelter under our nuclear umbrella. It is hardly the time to shred that umbrella.[John Bolton USA Today]

Comments

[Dan Dee]

The Urkel family sure does get around, don't they? England, Germany, France, Russia and now Italy in just a couple of weeks. Did they at least leave their gay dog at home?

[Olly Hackbar]

Don't forget, Obama is Kenyan for one term.