Posted by
fact275 on Friday, September 19, 2008 12:00:00 PM
1. The argument against a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq has been made ad nauseum.
2. Unproven missile defense systems? Should we have the Iranians launch one against us to test it? Obama is right in one regard--ground based interceptors like the GMD system up at Fort Greely, Alaska are not as effective as a space-based system. So Obama will focus on those systems right?
3. ...Er I guess not, since he won't "weaponize" space. News flash for Barack: space is ALREADY weaponized with military communications and navigation satellites that aid weapon systems kill people and break things down below. The Russians and Chinese have already demonstrated workable anti-satellite weapons. Since our entire economy depends on communication and navigation satellites (for example, every time you swipe a debit card, you're using a satellite), the country could be devastated if our satellite network was attacked. I guess Barack would sick the UN on our enemies if that happened.
4. He'll "slow the development of future combat systems." Like which ones Barack? The F-22, F-35, and KC-X tankers that the Air Force DESPERATELY need?
5. "An independent defense priorities board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review does not endorse "unnecessary" spending? The QDR usually is a political excuse to CUT defense spending, not increase it.
6. "A goal of a world without nuclear weapons." So Obama knows how to time travel back to 1944?
7. "Not develop new nuclear weapons." This means Obama will unilaterally disarm the United States. A recent
Air Force magazine article warns that our stockpile of nuclear warheads is aging. President George H.W. Bush's test ban prohibits anything but computer simulations on this arsenal to judge whether they would still work. In short, we need to begin building new warheads--not to add to our arsenal--but to REPLACE our arsenal and keep a credible deterrent.
8. "A global ban on the production of fissile material." No doubt enforced by the United Nations, which has such a tremendous record in that regard.
9. "Negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert." Supposedly, this was done back in the 1990s.
10. "Deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals." Well sorry Barack, but the Russians, even back to Yeltsin, have never stopped spending on their nuclear arsenal because they know the rest of the World (well, at least those not bordering it) wouldn't fear them much without all those nukes.
A President Obama simply would bring the threat of a nuclear attack on the United States closer to reality than at any time in our history, and I include the Cuban Missile Crisis. Linkin Park can moan all they want about the United States being "minutes to midnight" (i.e., the Doomsday Clock)--with Obama we'll be milliseconds.