Jimmie Carter Strikes Again

SEP 18, 2009

Those of you who have followed my blog since its inception may recall my very first blog, Obama's Panama Canal. In April of this year only a few hours after Kim Jung Il launched a rocket over our ally Japan, President Obama offered to destroy all our nuclear weapons. Similar to Carter, Obama promised to leverage our strategic advantage against a promise of peace. Giving up our nuclear strategic advantage is lunacy. Believing that articulating such a stance, bullies like Kim Jung Il, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are going to suddenly become peaceful is equally ridiculous. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has done nothing but thumb his nose at Obama's gestures and Kim Jung Il continues to defy UN Sanctions.

So what does President Obama go and do to top that one? He cancels a missile defense system set for deployment in Poland and the Czech Republic. Here are just a few headlines from this week's news related to this topic. I think they say it all.

September 12 CNN.com: Venezuela bought Russian arms, Chavez says as trip continues¹

September 15 Daily Times: Russia helping Venezuela develop nuclear energy²

Sept 17 The Economist: Venezuela's foreign policy - Dreams of a different world³ [A quote from this article - "Mr Chávez told Le Figaro, a French newspaper, that he had clinched a deal on nuclear co-operation with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."]

September 17 Times Online: Dismay in Europe as Obama ditches missile defence⁴

September 18 Associated Press: Poles, Czechs: US missile defense shift a betrayal⁵

September 18 Reuters: Iranian president raises stakes against Israel⁶ [A quote from the article - "This regime (Israel) will not last long. Do not tie your fate to it ... This regime has no future. Its life has come to an end," he said in a speech broadcast live on state radio."]

September 18 guardian.com IAEA secrete report: Iran worked on nuclear warhead - 'Secret Annexe' to UN nuclear inspection agency report reveals Iran has 'sufficient information to make a nuclear weapon7

So let's break this down. In the face of Vladimir Putin giving Chávez weapons, missiles, and nuclear technology, the Unites States pulls back its defensive missile shield protecting European Allies and us. On the day he briefs the world on pulling these missiles out, a report leaks from the Atomic Watch Dog organization saying Iran's capability to build a nuclear bomb is greater than we thought. And a day later, the psychopathic leader of Iran again threatens to destroy Israel.

I think it is insulting for the President to say the "intelligence" data caused us to change our plans. Come on, Iran has put a satellite into space for goodness sake. They have the missile technology.⁸ We all know that if Russia had not been so vehemently opposed to this, the system would have deployed on schedule.

And to top it all off, guess what happened 70 years ago yesterday? That's right, the US President decided to announce that he was taking back the promised missile defense system from Poland, on the 70th anniversary of Russia's Invasion of Poland.⁹ It's almost too hard to believe. But what can you expect from a Narcissist who gives the Queen of England an iPod loaded with his speeches. It's getting to the point where it is difficult to believe these actions, which are leading to a global weakening of America, are accidental. No one is this dumb.

¹http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/12/venezuela.chavez.home/

²http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C09%5C15%5Cstory_15-9-2009_pg4_7

³http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14460201

⁴http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6838058.ece

⁵http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iWR-3rEXusvVBWlZ-74ZbnZbKlZAD9APVE2O0

⁶http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-42553620090918

⁷http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/iran-nuclear-warhead-iaea-report

⁸http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7866357.stm

⁹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland