Putin Orders Obama Not to Defend America
Why do I have the awful premonition that Barack H. Obama is about to bow deeply from the waist again?
U.S. missile-defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms-control treaty with Washington, Russia’s top military officer said Tuesday.
Gen. Nikolai Makarov said that a revised U.S. plan [...]
Obama Proves Unable to Walk and Chew Missiles at the Same Time
National Security Advisor (and former Marine Corps General) Jim Jones has just offered the weirdest explanation to date for cancelling the long-range ballistic-missile defense system in Eastern Europe — while simultaneously betraying our allies, Poland and the Czech Republic:
White House National Security Adviser James L. Jones says President Obama’s decision to abandon a long-range missile [...]
Fun With Dick and Arthur
My fave at my fave still doesn’t quite seem to get a critical point. John Hinderaker, discussing Dick Cheney’s support for military action against Iran’s nuclear capability, concludes thus:
At the time, it seemed to me that we had our hands full in Iraq and Afghanistan and military conflict with Iran was not a serious [...]
Re: Why the Senate Wants Ground Based Interceptors in Europe
As Goldfarb pointed out, the key to ballistic missile defense is redundancy. European deployment of the system affords Western allies a critical level of protection, as well as the first line of a robust, layered defense of the US mainland. The threat, however, isn’t limited to Iran. Proliferation of ballistic missiles and ICBM/MRBM technology over [...]
