Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Our Marxist Moron-in-Chief strikes again

From the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons.

But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.

Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary.

Mr. Obama’s strategy is a sharp shift from those of his predecessors and seeks to revamp the nation’s nuclear posture for a new age in which rogue states and terrorist organizations are greater threats than traditional powers like Russia and China.

It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the cold war. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack. ...

Rest here. This makes the United States less safe; now those with chem/bio weapons can feel free to use them without fear of devastating nuclear reprisals from us. Want to attack U.S. cyber infrastructure and cripple our nation? Go right ahead, but watch out -- we might launch a strongly worded letter in your direction, or maybe even a U.N. reprimand if it's a really successful attack on America.

The foundational premise of our nuclear deterrent has been undermined by this imbecile in the White House, and we are all less safe as a result.

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