Omaba and Nukes

[quade 4]

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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.

Those threats, Mr. Obama argued, could be deterred with “a series of graded options,” a combination of old and new conventional weapons. “I’m going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the American people are safe and secure,” he said in the interview in the Oval Office.

Source; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html?hp

I strongly disagree with this concept. I understand wanting to reduce the world's paranoia about nukes and the desire to assure countries you're not going to commit a first strike, but to publicly state you wouldn't use them as a retaliatory strike based on a first strike of other WMDs is just silly.

Then again, he has carved out exceptions, but still, I don't like taking any of our options off the table.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[ryoder 1,590]

Don't worry about him keeping promises.
He's a politician, you know.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[Unstable 9]

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Don't worry about him keeping promises.
He's a politician, you know.Wink

LOL yeah - he hasn't kept anything else, why would he keep this promise?

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[kelpdiver 2]

thankfully he'll be gone before he can implement a full disarmament. Reducing the numbers from their current levels are fine. But removing from consideration a newer model warhead may make it more difficult to get much lower than the 1000 mark.

The idea that anyone can be discouraged from the bomb after the North Korea example is part of the worst qualities in our President, gives credence to the idea military experience actually does matter. San Francisco is full of peaceniks crying 'turn the other cheek.'

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San Francisco is full of peaceniks crying 'turn the other cheek.'

Yes, yes, because we all know they are the ones actually sitting in The Oval Office.

Give the President at least a small amount of credit from restraining himself from going quite as far as some have suggested. I might not agree with his decision on this, but it's a far cry from what you appear to be paranoid about.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[kelpdiver 2]

Uh, he's quite clear in his objective on the US nuclear arsenal. It's not paranoia to take his words at face value.

And no, I can't give him credit for only taking partial steps to a stupid philosophy that you agree would be bad for US interests.

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Uh, he's quite clear in his objective on the US nuclear arsenal. It's not paranoia to take his words at face value.

And no, I can't give him credit for only taking partial steps to a stupid philosophy that you agree would be bad for US interests.

You're obviously a racist that wants the US to fail.


Oh, yeah....

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