Comments on: The Mistake That Would Ruin Barack Obama’s Presidency–UPDATED

By: LEARNED FOREVER

LEARNED FOREVER — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:50:28 +0000

Obama. Chicago. Dem Machine
Graduate. Ayers. Rezco. Wright.
Corruption. Zero experience.
Now President. Pro-Abortion.

Success guaranteed. 4yrs
minimum. News Media.

By: Solid Citizen

Solid Citizen — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:24:25 +0000

Hundreds of billions of dollars have earmarked for “homeland security”, yet little has been done or communicated to the average citizen regarding a response to the effects of an EMP weapon or the detonation of a dirty nuke. The Congress and their minions – no doubt- have an exit strategy.

By: Solid Citizen

Solid Citizen — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:20:27 +0000

The Soviets could not compete with us militarily because they could not compete with us economically due to their failed socialist/central planning mentality. The Islamo-fascists have little reservation about taking suicidal actions that will injure their perceived enemies. A rogue Pakistani or state sponsored Iranian nuke delivered to the right atmosphere height off the coast of the USA could generate an EMP that could cripple major sectors of our economy. There is little that is mandated in our industrial infrastructure design that will protect us from such a calamity. The military – to its credit – appears to be addressing its EMP related vulnerabilities

By: Trish

Trish — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:33:00 +0000

Frank–
Ooh, let’s negotiate so that nobody has these awful weapons.

That’s a wonderful idea, except for this one inconvenient fact: you can’t uninvent the wheel.

So long as humanity has the capacity to invent such weapons, humanity has the capacity to use such weapons. If the capacity exists for reasonable people to create these weapons, the capacity exists for unreasonable people to create these weapons. And whether or not reasonable people will agree to eschew these weapons, unreasonable people will not.

And don’t try to claim that there will ever be a time when there will be no unreasonable people. Even the most utopian among us is not that divorced from reality.

By: Mat

Mat — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:17:10 +0000

Ok Frank,

First of all, you’re assuming that the Muslims are as pragmatic as the Soviets. The Soviet Union might have been our ideological enemy in the Cold War, but they weren’t suicidal. The biggest thing the Russians feared was a repeat of the devastation that they suffered in two world wars (unlike most Americans who forget just about everything within five minutes, the Russians have very, very long memories). Their nuclear threat was just as much of a deterrant as ours was. Even during the closest point of nuclear war, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Russians backed off after we secretly pulled our missiles out of Turkey.

And lets face it, the Soviets lost because they couldn’t compete militarily, not because we reduced our weapons (if anything, we increased our quality of weapons in the Reagan era).

The problem with the situation today is that you don’t have one major opposing superpowers, but a slew of regional powers (China is probably the closest to a rival superpower), all well aware of American conventional military superiority. In their mind a great equalizer is to have NBC weapons.

In Iran, you have people who are really big on bringing their Mahdi back, and the only way to do that is to bring about Armageddon. I also don’t believe that the Pakistani arsenal is as secure as many believe and if radicals ever took over (which isn’t as stupid as it sounds), all bets are off.

Simply unilaterally giving up weapons doesn’t guarantee peace. Giving the enemy any clear military advantage is patently stupid and should be avoided at all costs.

By: Obama to Muslims: I’m Weak and Indecisive | The Blog of Record

Obama to Muslims: I’m Weak and Indecisive | The Blog of Record — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:47:59 +0000

[...] Dr. Melissa Clouthier calls the attitude that resulted in this interview and decisions like calling for a global space weapons ban a “mistake that would ruin Barack Obama’s presidency”: If America were to be hit with another terrorist attack, especially after Obama appears weak or makes decisions that weaken America’s defense, President Barack Obama’s star will sink faster than the Titanic. [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:47:13 +0000

Instead of saying, “They’re going to do it, so we should too,” how about saying, “Let’s negotiate with them so that nobody has these awful weapons.” We’ve done it before with the Soviets; together, we’ve greatly reduced the number of nukes in our and their hands. This is a net positive for humankind. The goal should be to reduce the WMDs in existence down to next to nothing.

By: jdc

jdc — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:34:00 +0000

GW Bush will be vindicated by historians. I was not kept awake at night under Bush. Our military loved him and he loved them back. Obama will never garner the same affection. Hillary used to refer to her security detail as “trained monkeys” and had decorated officers waiting tables at state dinners. Biden made it real clear that “this guy will be tested, trust me” Obama has crew of proven failures running the show. We will be hit again due to his utter weakness and ineptitude and America will rise up and defend herself, again, but mercifully the Obama presidency “experiment” will end.