Wednesday - April 07, 2010
I don’t know where to start on this
Yes, I want to post on Obama’s completely unnecessary, unprompted, brain fried, and utterly stupid remaking yesterday of the USA’s nuclear arms policy.
It’s so wrong that I don’t know where to begin. Sure, dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of other bloggers raced to their keyboards and hammered out the obvious: he just gave away the store. He just made all the little tinpot dictators a little bolder. He just made America a whole lot less safe. This is so obvious to me, and to you, that my even mentioning it would be patronizing. Wouldn’t it? Or has everyone completely forgotten what atomic detente is all about? Sure, sure, Cold War is over, Soviet Union is gone, the splodey dope terrorists are so small scale and inept as to be beneath snide contempt except for their occasional minor successes. But there are rogue states out there, crazy dictators that NEVER respect or even understand a gesture of kindness or even one of common sense. To them, any and every gesture and statement that isn’t strongly belligerent is a sign of weakness and lack of will. Not only do they always choose the strong horse, they can’t see that any other horses even exist.
Here is nuclear arms policy in a nutshell:
We have lots of nukes. Lots and lots of them. You don’t. Don’t fuck with us, because you never know. That’s really all there is to it.
Ok, you could mention that we have them as bombs, as intercontinental ballistic missiles, as medium range ground based, air based, and ship based missiles, as short range missiles, as cruise missiles you can’t see, on stealth aircraft you can’t find, that we have them on certain ships, that we have them on submarines that you can’t locate that could be sitting right off your coastline. That we know how to build them as artillery shells, backpack weapons, that we can put as many of them in orbit whenever the hell we want and just drop them on you, literally straight out of the blue. We also have several different systems that can shoot your missiles down long before they get to us. So don’t fuck with us, because you never know.
You countries that have these things in large quantities - that would be you, Russia/CCCP, and China - you’re the ones who promised No First Use. We didn’t. Suckers. So tread lightly.
You countries that have a few of these things - India, Pakistan, South Africa, France - look how far we bend over to get along with you. You are allies, friends. To a pretty decent extent. But don’t lose your head. You have coastlines too, and it’s the same distance down from space to your capitals as it is to anyone else’s. So let’s be pals, but keep yourself under control.
You other countries with your alternate WMD. Germ warfare, chemical warfare, EMP. We used to do all those nasty things too, but we decided that they were too nasty. So we got rid of them. But in getting rid of them we, in that great American spirit of equality, declared that all WMD are equal. So hit us with poison gas or your ebola-hanta-anthrax-influenza hybrid, and we’ll nuke you ‘till you glow. So don’t fuck with us, because you never know.
Oh, and all of our positional statements apply to the nations we consider allies, but to a slightly lesser degree because we respect their independent nature. But fuck with them too much, and we press the button. And we won’t ever tell you just what “too much” really means.
Obama just gave all of that away. Because he felt like it. No other country was pressuring him. There have been no huge uprisings of citizens against MAD-level WMD or policies. (sure, sure, the same old hippies have been carrying the same old protest signs for generations, but who ever listens to those unwashed morons?). So this was a bit of a surprise.
Do we have too many nukes? Probably. How many is enough? I’d bet 2500 would do it. So we can get rid of quite a lot of them. But let’s make sure that the ones we keep are fully modernized, fully functional, properly hardened and redundant, properly secured, and properly dispersed. Because people fuck with us, and we never know. This means we continuously research ways to build better weapons. And better delivery systems. Always. And when we have a better design, proven and ready to go, we can take the heart out of some old bombs and put them in the new ones. It’s not like uranium and plutonium wear out in a few decades. The stuff is good for geologic epochs. So it’s really stupid to call a halt to research, even when it looks like we have vastly superior systems, because the rest of the world catches up to us by stealing our stuff. It’s called spying, and they are really good at it. We aren’t. Hell, their best spies are our best engineers and physicists. So much for the benefits of all those H1-A visas.
Making a policy statement about who we will nuke, and for what reason, what provocation, is just plain stupid. Making a statement that says specifically where we won’t retaliate with nuclear weapons just opens the door for attacks of those natures. Purest idiocy, especially since we can’t/won’t secure either our own borders or our own population.
Did Obama think that he was putting the squeeze on Iran by his little exception for rogue states? Did he rewrite, dumb down, and fundamentally change US WMD policy for the worst as some kind of “nuanced” sanction against Ahmadumjihad? Smooth move Mr. Dodo if he did. That didn’t last even 24 hours.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad derided Obama on Wednesday, depicting him as an ineffective leader influenced by Israel to target Iran more aggressively.
“American materialist politicians, whenever they are beaten by logic, immediately resort to their weapons like cowboys,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech before a crowd of several thousand in northwestern Iran.
“Mr. Obama, you are a newcomer (to politics). Wait until your sweat dries and get some experience. Be careful not to read just any paper put in front of you or repeat any statement recommended,” Ahmadinejad said in the speech, aired live on state TV.
Wow. Obama the cowboy. Even I’m insulted by that one, and I only dreamed of being a cowboy when I was a small boy. Real cowboys must be fuming.
You can, and probably already have, read story after story on the many ways that this new policy is wrong. They’re everywhere. And they are all correct. Here’s a short list of some of the better ones:
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/04/06/obama-makes-biological-warfare-more-attractive-to-terrorist-states/
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/04/06/president-obama-imperils-our-nations-security/
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/04/07/missing-the-target/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_campaign=284199fad4-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_us_nuclear
It was a really dumb move, for no real reason, and it makes the US weaker while making the international mad men that much stronger. And he did all this before the Soviets kinder, more gentle Russians signed their copy of the new START treaty. With the option to opt out of it if they felt like it. Gosh, such a strong negotiator our President is.
This guy makes my eyes bleed and my head explode. I just can’t deal with it. And we’ve got nearly 3 more years to go.
Here’s a picture of Reese Witherspoon looking really nice and fresh on a spring day. Just to remind me that some things can still be done properly.
UPDATE:
Seems that The Mustache of Truth had pretty much the same reaction that I did. He’s just so much more eloquent than I am.
The President’s New Nuclear Policy [John Bolton]
The Nuclear Posture Review is deeply troubling in many respects, starting at the conceptual level with its unfounded assertion that the need for American nuclear deterrence has declined. By further unilaterally limiting the circumstances in which the U.S. would use nuclear weapons to protect itself and its allies, the Obama administration is in fact increasing international instability and the risks of future conflicts. By abandoning the reliable replacement warhead project, and drastically limiting programs to ensure the safety and reliablity of our existing nuclear stockpile, the president is risking our security and obtaining nothing in return. Nuclear proliferators, as well as countries with chemical and biological weapons programs, can only welcome these further unforced American errors on the road to nuclear impotence.
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