(IBD) America's Funeral In Berlin: Obama Gives Away Nuclear Arsenal

Disarmament: President Obama has proposed targeting cuts in deployed atomic weapons of up to a third below levels achieved in a 2010 treaty with Russia. He wants a world without nuclear arms — specifically ours.

Only a shameless politician could invoke the name of President Kennedy in Berlin to announce the nuclear disarmament of America.

When Kennedy proclaimed "Ich bin ein Berliner" in June 1963, it was a statement of solidarity with the free people of West Berlin and a pledge of resistance to the tyranny that surrounded it. It was not an act of appeasement or a vain hope for peace in our time.

Similarly, Kennedy said in his 1961 inaugural address that "only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."

The next year, Kennedy used our supremacy to make the Soviets blink during the Cuban missile crisis. Obama probably would have apologized for threatening Cuba.

Ronald Reagan, who in June 1987 stood in West Berlin to demand that Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall, spent his presidency rephrasing Kennedy's doctrine as "peace through strength." He built a 600-ship Navy, launched the Strategic Defense Initiative and, when Gorbachev in October 1986 in Iceland demanded he give it up, told him, "Nyet!"

The result was the Berlin Wall came down — and the Soviet Union with it.

It was Obama's vision of a "world without nuclear weapons" set out in a speech in Prague in 2009, three months into his presidency, that arguably earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. He ignored the fact that before 1945 we lived in such a world, and it was neither peaceful nor secure.

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Patricia Gillenwater June 22, 2013 at 1:06pm

America may be the only power reducing its Nuclear arsenal. But then we don't know for sure if we really do then there is the pesky thing if they do of finding a way of disposal and protecting the disposable waste.
Norma J. Sears June 22, 2013 at 7:22am

What part of treason has BO not committed?

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