The world is about to get a lot more dangerous. For more than 60 years, the United States has been the pre-eminent nuclear power in the world, and the world has been safer as a result. While anti-nuclear fanatics warned of an apocalypse if the U.S. continued to expand and improve its nuclear arsenal during the Cold War, the reality was that our superiority over our enemy and our unwillingness to foreswear the use of nuclear weapons prevented the conflagration many feared. Now, President Barack Obama is determined to abandon six decades of proven nuclear deterrent policy in favor of a fantasy that he can rid the world of these dangerous weapons by tying America's hands behind our backs.
Obama announced his new nuclear strategy this week before heading to Prague to sign a dubious arms-control agreement with Russia in advance of next week's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. The strategy he outlined is a virtual blueprint to those who would seek to destroy us. For the first time ever, an American administration has announced the specific circumstances under which a deadly attack on the United States will not result in a nuclear response.
In a Los Angeles Times op-ed authored by Vice President Joe Biden, the administration put itself on record, promising "a policy that the United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, as long as they are party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and in compliance with their nuclear nonproliferation obligations."
So, let's say a signatory to the NPT launches a chemical, biological or devastating cyber attack on the American heartland, killing thousands and crippling our economy. What will Obama do? We know what he won't do. He's now taken our most threatening response off the table. And for what? To provide "additional incentives for countries to fully comply with nonproliferation norms," as Biden argues? Yeah, right.
The list of signatories to the NPT includes an unsavory and threatening bunch: Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Yemen, to name just a few.
We know many of the regimes that currently control these nations can't be trusted, but the future is even more frightening. What about some future Yemen led by the likes of Anwar al-Awlaki or a re-Talibanized Afghanistan or a Saudi Arabia in which the House of Saud has been replaced by the House of bin Laden?
And never mind that the current risks to the United States come mostly from loosely affiliated terrorist organizations — who are often aided by signatory countries like Iran, North Korea, and Syria, which would now be immune to a nuclear retaliation under the administration's policy. If a current or future enemy wants to wipe out an American city, they'd be wise to use botulin toxin or perhaps release some poison gas — just don't use a suitcase nuke.
As if this new policy weren't bad enough, the administration has coupled it with a promise "not to develop new warheads or add military capabilities as we manage our arsenal for the future." Since President Ronald Reagan first proposed and President George H.W. Bush later signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the U.S. has committed itself to reducing its nuclear arsenal. But it has never promised not to "add military capabilities," which basically freezes our technology at today's capacity. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made no such commitment before signing the new treaty.
Thankfully, President Obama's signature on the treaty isn't enough to bind the nation — and it remains to be seen whether he can get the 67 senators he'll need to get Senate ratification. But in a real sense, the harm has already been done. Obama has made the critical mistake of signaling to our enemies our willingness to hold back if we are attacked by a weapon of mass destruction. And you can bet they've taken notice.
Linda Chavez is the author of "An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal." To find out more about Linda Chavez, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.
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Dear Linda, Enjoyed your comment,what amazing time we live in,and once again as we wait for our blessed hope,The Lord Jesus Christ we see,once again The Word Of God" the Bible come to pass,as I share with people if you don't believe were in the last days,were 2010,go back 100 years,1910. They did'nt have nukes,between the U.S.and Russia alone,they posses enough nuclear warheads to destory the world 20-times over. According to the discovery channel piece I watched. I'm sure glad Jesus sits on His throne,and nothing happens in this world unless it passes through His hand,for The Lord Jesus Christ who is God Almightly-"I and The Father are One"-John 10:30."Let not your heart be troubled;believe in God,believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many dwelling places;if it were not so, I would have told you;for I go to perpare a place for you. And if I go and perpare a place for you,I will come again ,and recieve you to Myself;that where I am,there you may be also. "And you know the way where I am going." Thomas said to Him,"Lord,we do not know where You are going,how do we know the way?" Jesus said to him,"I am the way ,and the truth,and the life;no one comes to the Father,but through Me. "If you had know Me,you would have know My Father also;from now on you know Him and have seen Him."-John14:1-7(NASB). God is sovereign,Jesus has the whole world in His hands,and satan on a chain,he goes only as far as God lets him,satan is reserve along with the demons for the lake of fire,And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone,where the beast and the false prophet are also;and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.-Revelation 20:10. (NASB) And the demons will be in the lake of fire with satan or fallen angels-Matthew 8:29. Only those who have be born again in Jesus Christ and have repented of there sins,enter the kingdom of God-Jesus answered and said to him,"Truly,truly,I say to you unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."-John 3:3. I do know one thing in my gut:al Quaeda is here and wating. They understand that bombings by cars,trucks ,trains and planes will get them some headlings,to be sure. But if they manage to set off a mushrooom cloud,they will make history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they intens.-George Tenet,former CIA diector. Terrorists pose the most dire threat to American security today. The "gold standard in terror,"according to expert Daniel Benjamin,remains "mass casualty attacks against Americans."-Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen,The Next American Century. Washington is laid to waste. The capital is a blackened,smoking ruin. The White House has been razed. Countless thousands are dead. This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a nuclear bomb.-UK Daily Mail-quotes taken from the book-The Late Great United States-What Bible Prophecy Reveals About America's Last Days-by PHD,Mark Hitchcock. Are we headed for a nuclear jihad? In a prophecy written over 2,500 years ago,Ezekiel 38-39 foretells Iran's future. Iran,Russia and other Islamic nations will invade Israel in the end times. Today,the connection between Iran and Russia grows stronger. How close is this invaison?-taken form the book-Iran The Coming Crisis(Radical Islam,Oil,and The Nuclear Threat)-Is The Stage Being Set For The End Times?-by PHD,Mark Hitchcock-The Book of Ezekiel was written 592-570 B.C. Is'nt God beautiful, reveals whats going to happen in the furture,before it happens. The Bible, The Word of God is the only Book to do this,100% accurate,100% of the time. For no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will,but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.-2 Peter:1:21(NASB). All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching,for reproof,for correction,for training in righteousness;that the man of God may be adequate,equipped for every good work.(NASB)-2 Timothy 3:16-17.
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