{"id":519532,"date":"2010-04-07T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/nuclear-posturing-41947\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:11:00","slug":"nuclear-posturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519532","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Posturing"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 04.07.10 10:00 AM posted by Mackenzie Eaglen<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Natanz-Nuclear-Facility.jpg">\"\"<\/p>In <ahref="http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/430547\/nuclear-posturing\/nro-symposium">NRO\u0092s symposium today, Clifford May notes that Iran\u0092s leaders will view the Nuclear Posture Review \u0093as one more sign of a weakening America,\u0094 and Jamie Fly argues that our self-imposed nuclear limitations will not convince Iran or North Korea to change their behavior.<\/p>\n

As if on cue, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad <ahref="http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2010-04-07-iran-us-nuclear_N.htm">accused U.S. leaders of resorting to weapons \u0093like cowboys\u0094 when \u0093beaten by logic.\u0094<\/p>\n

The NPR is full of problems. For example, while the strategy outlines many current threats accurately, its solutions are based on the misguided belief that the right message is enough to scare Iran and North Korea into submission.<spanid="more-30746"><\/span><\/p>\n

Another problem is the assumption that if the U.S. leads by example, others will follow. While this works well for Army infantrymen, it does not work well in the international arena. U.S. leaders must view the world as it is, and not as they wish it to be. This means acknowledging the reality that in the past decade alone, the number of global nuclear powers has grown from six to nine. The expanding nuclear club belies the presumption that reducing our own nuclear-weapons numbers will in itself lead to a safer world.<\/p>\n

The NPR unnecessarily takes options off the table for responding to chemical or biological attacks. The nation should not tie one hand behind its back when deciding how to defend American citizens.<\/p>\n

An irony lies in the fact that by limiting the use of nuclear weapons, Obama\u0092s vision increases the value of conventional military forces \u0097 which Obama is busy cutting. His defense budgets may compromise U.S. military superiority, including its air dominance, maritime control, space control, and ability to project power to distant regions.<\/p>\n

The most dangerous problem of all is that cuts to strategic and<\/i> conventional forces increase the likelihood that U.S. military capabilities will fall short of the nation\u0092s wide-ranging security commitments \u0097 including our nuclear umbrella.?<\/p>\n

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On 04.07.10 10:00 AM posted by Mackenzie Eaglen <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Natanz-Nuclear-Facility.jpg"><\/p>In <ahref="http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/430547\/nuclear-posturing\/nro-symposium">NRO\u0092s symposium today, Clifford May notes that Iran\u0092s leaders will view the Nuclear Posture Review \u0093as one more sign of a weakening America,\u0094 and Jamie Fly argues that our self-imposed nuclear limitations will not convince Iran or North Korea to change their behavior. As if on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}