Mon 21 Sep, 2009
By What Right, Mr. President?
Comments (2) Filed under: Journalism, National Defense by: AdministratorTags: China, communism, disarmament, Journalism, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Russia
Today, September 21, The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that President Barack Obama ordered the US Defense Department to review the nuclear defense posture of the United States of America with the goal of reducing America’s nuclear arsenal from the current level of thousands of nuclear warheads, to mere hundreds.1 There are two major items of concern here, both of which MUST be answered.
The essence of Barack Obama’s plan follows:
Obama has rejected the Pentagon’s first draft of the “nuclear posture review” as being too timid, and has called for a range of more far-reaching options consistent with his goal of eventually abolishing nuclear weapons altogether, according to European officials.
Those options include:
• Reconfiguring the US nuclear force to allow for an arsenal measured in hundreds rather than thousands of deployed strategic warheads.
• Redrafting nuclear doctrine to narrow the range of conditions under which the US would use nuclear weapons.
• Exploring ways of guaranteeing the future reliability of nuclear weapons without testing or producing a new generation of warheads.
The review is due to be completed by the end of this year, and European officials say the outcome is not yet clear. But one official said: “Obama is now driving this process. He is saying these are the president’s weapons, and he wants to look again at the doctrine and their role.”
Since Barack Obama made a campaign video declaring that he wanted a world “without nuclear weapons” I will use his own words and his video. The statement is 50 seconds into the video.2
Hence, the following are questions the Mr. Obama, as President of the United States, MUST answer:
A. Since your stated goal is the reduction of AMERICAN nuclear weapons to make the world a safer place, just what means do you have to insure that any other nation follows suit and ACTUALLY reduces their arsenal?
B. Is the strength of your “enforcement” of this provision the empty words and promises of the likes of Kim Jong Il, Vladmir Putin, Hugo Chavez, Ahmadinejad of Iran, etc, etc?
C. Please explain to all American citizens how it is that human nature has changed in the last 5500+ years of recorded history so that it is possible that no nation would surreptitiously keep and continue developing nuclear weapons so they could blackmail a disarmed world into submission?
D. How is it that we, the American people, can trust the likes of Vladimir Putin who ordered the killing of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko (not to mention numerous other journalists in Russia) who exposed Putin’s lies?
E. Please explain how the American people can trust a Russian government that thinks nothing of trumping up charges against businessmen so it can steal every asset they have earned?3
F. How can the American people possibly trust Vladimir Putin, who in 1998 and 1999, most certainly ordered the FSB to conduct a series of bombings in and around Moscow and other major cities in Russia (killing their own people in the process), so they could blame “Chechen separatists” and renew the war in Chechnya, thus entrenching Putin in power?
G. Who gave you, as President, the RIGHT to place the lives of millions of men, women and children at risk in this grand experiment of depending upon the “inherent good” in human nature?
H. What will you do President Obama when you are proven to be dead wrong about human nature, and America is disarmed before Russia and China and they DEMAND the immediate capitulation and occupation of the United States or be totally destroyed in a nuclear holocaust?
I. Why should Americans believe your pie in the sky notions about disarmament and a peaceful world when ALL of man’s history proves that man cannot be trusted?
J. Why should Americans believe anything you say about anything regarding the security of America when you have been proven to be a LIAR – and will LIE through your teeth to get what you want?
K. What right do you have, and who gave you this right, to play games and experiment with the life of ANYONE ELSE, let alone the lives of millions?
L. What will you do when you realize, when it is far to late, that the Communists eat their own – and your throat is about to be slit, or a bullet is about to be put in your brain on the orders of whatever leader happens to be in power in Russia – because you mistakenly trusted your Communist “friends?”
M. Finally, knowing that Chicago has gun control laws and everyone is either disarmed or their arms are registered – with the exception of the police; will you, Mr. President, walk through the streets of the south side of Chicago at night, unarmed and without ANY escort whatsoever? Will you take that challenge in Washington DC?
And for the media:
What will you do when you realize the hardcore Communists have no more use for you – and you also are next to be liquidated?
I will let the words of Anna Politkovskaya stand for your final thought concerning Obama’s pipe dream of disarmament. You may substitute “American” and “communism” in the appropriate places
“People often tell me that I am a pessimist, that I don’t believe in the strength of the Russian people, that I am obsessive in my opposition to Putin and see nothing beyond that,” she opens an essay titled Am I Afraid?, finishing it — and the book — with the words: “If anybody thinks they can take comfort from the ‘optimistic’ forecast, let them do so. It is certainly the easier way, but it is the death sentence for our grandchildren.”4
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/20/barack-obama-us-nuclear-weapons [↩]
- ibid [↩]
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky [↩]
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya [↩]
