If a Palestinian or Syrian terrorist strikes with a nuke?
“The United States will swear off the development of new generations of nuclear weapons and will not use its existing arsenal to attack nonnuclear states that are in compliance with nonproliferation agreements, the Obama administration said Tuesday.
The new policy “recognizes that the greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states,” Obama said later in a statement.”
The position “provides a road map” to help achieve Obama’s “long-term goal of a nuclear-free world,” Gates added. It removes a “calculated ambiguity” in past U.S. nuclear policy while making clear that “this is a weapon of last resort,” he said.
Am I the only one that finds this new policy naive and frightening? I know there’s a nutty guy in Iran chuckling over this one.
Scott Brown’s truck was made by the company Obama OWNS…General Motors.
Nothing like bashing your own product to help sales.
“I’m Scott Brown. I’m from Wrentham. I drive a truck. And I’m nobody’s senator but yours,” the Republican told a packed crowd at his victory party in a downtown Boston hotel.
Thank Janet Napolitano for making all air travel a nightmare, who today told reporters during a briefing that the United States is scheduled to deploy 300 additional advanced imaging scanners at U.S. airports in 2010, and may deploy more.
I still don’t understand how this will stop terrorists in other countries from boarding with pantie bombs.
And who could forget Janet blaming Canada for 911. Someone needs to tell here where the terrorists are and what the look like.
For Amanda Simpson, America’s first openly transgender presidential appointee, the job in the U.S. Commerce Department is an honor and the culmination of a career dedicated to understanding military technology.
President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department. Simpson will monitor the exports of U.S. weapons technology.
But what gnaws at her, she says, is the fear of being labeled a token who was hired because of her sexual identity rather than on her merits.
“Being the first sucks,” she told ABC News.com. “I’d rather not be the first but someone has to be first, or among the first. I think I’m experienced and very well qualified to deal with anything that might show up because I’ve broken barriers at lots of other places and I always win people over with who I am and what I can do.
She has 30 years in the industry but can’t escape the feeling that some will see her appointment as a political maneuver.
“[There will be] questions like: Is this a token? Are you here to do a job or just to fill a quota or appease other people? In that regard it makes it a bit more difficult,” she said. “I’m sure I will have to do and intend to do a far superior job than any other person. But I’m sure I will always be second guessed.”
Seems the trade has its share of transgendered stars:
How many Rocket Scientists with 30 years experience in defence areas, who have degrees in both Engineering and Business Administration, as well as Physics?
Professor Lynn Conway, former head of the Defence Strategic Computing Initiative transitioned some time ago.
Dr Stephanie Langhoff, Chief Scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Centre transitioned too.
Bill Kristol Takes The Obama Administration to task for the way they are handling terror.
“Closing the embassy in Yemen last night? No one wants State Department officials put at risk, but that is a sign of weakness. Closing the embassy? We can’t protect our own embassy in Yemen, a place where we have special operations forces. A place we say we’re working with the government on the front lines of the war on terror? And there’s a terror threat, and we close the embassy?
Kristol’s damning summation: “That’s a victory for al Qaeda. This last week has been a victory for al Qaeda in that region, I’m afraid.”
Starting to be shades of the past when the US handled terror as an inconvenience. Obama needs to quit worrying about what Dick Cheney says and start working on fighting a war that he is (reluctantly) in.
Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan.. you have to wonder if Obama is up to the task?
The reason the country is uneasy about the Obama administration’s response to this attack is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. From the very beginning, President Obama has relentlessly tried to downplay and deny the nature of the terrorist threat we continue to face. Napolitano renames terrorism “man-caused disasters.” Obama goes abroad and pledges to cleanse America of its post-9/11 counterterrorist sins. Hence, Guantanamo will close, CIA interrogators will face a special prosecutor, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will bask in a civilian trial in New York — a trifecta of political correctness and image management.
This is all quite mad even in Obama’s terms. He sends 30,000 troops to fight terror overseas, yet if any terrorists come to attack us here, they are magically transformed from enemy into defendant.
The logic is perverse. If we find Abdulmutallab in an al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen, where he is merely preparing for a terror attack, we snuff him out with a Predator — no judge, no jury, no qualms. But if we catch him in the United States in the very act of mass murder, he instantly acquires protection not just from execution by drone but even from interrogation.
The president said that this incident highlights “the nature of those who threaten our homeland.” But the president is constantly denying the nature of those who threaten our homeland. On Tuesday, he referred five times to Abdulmutallab (and his terrorist ilk) as “extremist(s).”
A man who shoots abortion doctors is an extremist. An eco-fanatic who torches logging sites is an extremist. Abdulmutallab is not one of these. He is a jihadist. And unlike the guys who shoot abortion doctors, jihadists have cells all over the world; they blow up trains in London, nightclubs in Bali, and airplanes over Detroit (if they can); and they are openly pledged to wage war on America.
Any government can through laxity let someone slip through the cracks. But a government that refuses to admit that we are at war, indeed, refuses even to name the enemy — jihadist is a word banished from the Obama lexicon — turns laxity into a governing philosophy.
As Iran gets closer to a nuke each day, France has decided to fill the void Obama has left in leadership, and take the lead on the Iranian problem.
France threw down the gauntlet over Iran’s nuclear program yesterday, effectively eclipsing the United States as it pledged to take the lead in pushing for more United Nations’ sanctions.
“We make a last call to the Islamic Republic of Iran to respond to our offer of negotiation,” Gérard Araud, the French ambassador to the UN, said after a Security Council meeting focused on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“If Iran doesn’t [respond in] the short term, France will propose a new resolution of sanctions.”
The council’s five permanent members — the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China — and Germany have been seeking to advance talks with Iran over its suspected development of a nuclear bomb.
But the United States remained less insistent than France about emphasizing the imminence of a new push for sanctions.
“We have been — and remain [in the process of] — implementing a dual track” approach of diplomacy coupled with the prospect of increased pressure, said Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN.
The contrast in tone was one of the strongest at the UN since Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, appeared to publicly chastize Barack Obama at a September council meeting, at which the U.S. President led a call for a nuclear weapons-free world.
“We live in the real world, not in a world of postures and communiqués. And the real world expects us to take decisions,” Mr. Sarkozy said then.
Let’s hope the Democrats don’t try to steal this one… AKA 
