New START: Abandoning Missile Defense

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May 102010
 

Questions abound concerning the Obama administration’s nuclear-weapons-reduction treaty.

Ariel Cohen and Owen B. Graham
National Review Online, May 10, 2010

The Obama administration is heralding the New START Treaty — a bilateral treaty with Russia, signed on April 8 in Prague — as a major accomplishment. But now that leading national-security experts have had time to review the pact closely, it’s starting to get a lot of criticism. There is grave concern, not just with some of the treaty’s language, but also with some of the backroom deals and promises made during the negotiations.

For the treaty to take effect, the Senate must ratify it with a two-thirds vote, and President Obama wants that to happen before the November elections. But some senators have been hesitant; they have even considered requesting to see the treaty-negotiations protocol — the first draft of the document — which should shed light on what took place. Continue reading »

U.S. is expected to reveal size of nuclear stockpile

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May 012010
 

By Mary Beth Sheridan and Walter Pincus
Washington Post, May 1, 2010

The Obama administration is likely to reveal a closely guarded secret — the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile — during a critical meeting starting Monday at which Washington will try to strengthen the global treaty that curbs the spread of nuclear weapons, several officials said.

Various factions in the administration have debated for months whether to declassify the numbers, and they were left out of President Obama‘s recent Nuclear Posture Review because of objections from intelligence officials. Now, the administration is seeking a dramatic announcement that will further enhance its nuclear credentials as it tries to shore up the fraying nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

The numbers could be released as soon as Monday, when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to address the NPT Review Conference in New York, officials said. She will speak after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is likely to repeat his demands for more global controls over the stockpiles of the nuclear nations. Continue reading »

The time of testing is coming for Obama

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Apr 242010
 

Jim Stuart
American Thinker, April 24, 2010

In 1962, after nuclear missiles were discovered in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy faced down his Soviet Rival Nikita Khrushchev, almost precipitating a nuclear exchange. The principal reason JFK took a firm stand was to protect his image. In those days, with the Cold War in full swing, it was important to maintain a posture of strength and resolve.

Each side was constantly testing the other for signs of weakness that could be exploited. Earlier in 1961, Kennedy had been humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, and Eisenhower had warned him that the Soviets would be emboldened as a result. So when the missiles were discovered, Kennedy’s primary concern was not any strategic advantage they might pose (the US had offsetting nuclear missiles already installed in Italy and Turkey), but rather, that he not appear weak. Such was his concern for his image of strength and resolve that he was willing to risk a nuclear confrontation. Continue reading »

Russia, Georgia, and Islamic Terrorism

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Apr 212010
 

Russia is the world’s biggest non-Muslim sponsor of Islamic terrorism

By Daniel Greenfield
Canada Free Press, April 21, 2010

It is no secret that Russia is the world’s biggest non-Muslim sponsor of Islamic terrorism. Russian weapons and rubles flow into Iran and Syria, and from there to terrorist groups throughout the Middle East. Russian personnel train the Iranians, who in turn train Iraqi Shiite terrorists on the best way to kill American soldiers.

While the US was getting ready to take down Saddam Hussein, Russia was using its best delaying tactics in the UN, while rushing its top of the line weapons into Iraq. Putin knew that Saddam was finished and that Iraq’s debt to Russia would never be paid. Nevertheless, the doomed Saddam got the best the Russian armories had to offer in order to kill as many American troops as possible. After the invasion, Russian officials would boast of the increased demand for their weapons in the Muslim world.

In Lebanon, once again Russian weapons flowed to Hezbollah (the Party of Allah) terrorists. Top-of-the-line Russian weapons destroyed Israeli tanks and killed Israeli soldiers. And once again Russian officials boasted about their weapons being behind it all. And when Israel pulled out, Russia sent two detachments of its Chechen Muslim troops to Lebanon. Continue reading »

Truth rises from Poland’s tragedy

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Apr 172010
 

Norman Davies
TimesOnline.uk, April 18, 2010

The Russian army band was practising in a forest clearing. Shafts of sunlight streamed through the stands of tall red spruce, playing on patches of unmelted snow and glinting on the brass of cornets and trombones. It was Wednesday morning: later that day the Russian and Polish prime ministers were to join a memorial service marking the cold-blooded execution of 25,000 Polish allied officers, killed in a series of massacres that had started on that very spot 70 years ago.

The musicians were not familiar with the Polish national anthem, Dabrowski’s mazurka, and their conductor repeatedly led them through the spritely opening bars. As they concentrated on finding the right rhythm and tempo, their faces betrayed no sign of the extraordinary symbolism of their task. They would not have known the accompanying words: “Poland has not perished yet, so long as we still live.” Continue reading »

Obama’s Nuclear Posturing, Part Deux

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Apr 162010
 

Charles Krauthammer
Townhall.com, April 16, 2010

WASHINGTON — There was something oddly disproportionate about the just-concluded nuclear summit to which President Obama summoned 46 world leaders, the largest such gathering on American soil since 1945. That meeting was about the founding of the United Nations, which 65 years ago seemed an event of world-historical importance.

But this one? What was this great convocation about? To prevent the spread of nuclear material into the hands of terrorists. A worthy goal, no doubt. Unfortunately, the two greatest such threats were not even on the agenda.

The first is Iran, which is frantically enriching uranium to make a bomb, and which our own State Department identifies as the greatest exporter of terrorism in the world. Continue reading »

The Systematic Dismantling of a Secure America

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Apr 152010
 

By Janet Levy
American Thinker, April 15, 2010

The emotionally charged toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square on April 9, 2003 was an ephemeral moment of unity for Americans applauding the defeat of a tyrannical regime and an enemy of the free world. The rapid victory over Saddam by U.S. forces reinforced, for Americans and the world, America’s military supremacy as a force for good against evil. At that time, our nation appeared to uphold Woodrow Wilson’s pre-World War I proclamation to “make the world safe for democracy.”

Fast-forward to April 6, 2010, when Barack Obama informed the world that the United States would no longer function as a global superpower buttressed by nuclear weapons as a deterrence to war. With one unanticipated public statement from the putative leader of the free world, the security held by the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction vanished from the American arsenal, and confidence in America’s ability to defend its citizens vaporized. Obama’s proclamation of unilateral nuclear disarmament nullified America’s willingness and ability to defend itself and its allies at a critical juncture in history when worldwide nuclear proliferation abounds. Continue reading »

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