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MR. OBAMA'S APPALLING BIZARRE NONSENSE ON MISSILE DEFENSE |
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Written by Sarah Palin
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Friday, 10 June 2011 |
As Governor, I fought the Obama Administration's plans to cut funds for
missile defense in Alaska. So
imagine how appalled and surprised I was to read
this article by former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, appropriately
titled "Giving Away the Farm," concerning President Obama's latest bizarre
actions relating to missile defense.
President Obama wants to give Russia
our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their
friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving
military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia
is just plain dumb.
You can't buy off Russia.
And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability.
What happens if Russia
gives this technology (or sells it!) to other countries like Iran
or China?
After all, as Woolsey points out, Russia
helped Iran
with its missile and nuclear programs. Or what happens if an even more hardline
leader comes to power in the Kremlin?
We tried buying off the Kremlin with technologies in the 1970s. That
policy was a component of "detente," and the hope was that if we would share
our technologies with them, they would become more peaceful. Things, of
course, didn't work out that way.
The Kremlin took western technologies and embarked on a massive military
building program. History teaches that peace comes from American military
strength. And a central component of that has always been technological
superiority. Why would President Obama even dream of giving this away?
Members of Congress saw how foolish President Obama's gambit was, so they
put a section in the defense appropriation bill that specifically forbids the
federal government from spending money to share these technologies with the
Kremlin. President Obama actually threatened to veto the defense
appropriation bill over this section of the law!
Fortunately, the House passed the bill with a veto-proof majority, a
whopping 322 to 96. Attention now turns to the Senate.
Why is it that President Obama seems to work so hard to give things to our
enemies, while at the same time asking friends and allies like Israel
to make sacrifices?
During these tough economic times when we are facing massive deficits and a
competitive global economy, does President Obama really want to give away
technologies that the American taxpayer paid lots of money to develop?
Giving away our missile defense secrets won't make us safer. What it
will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with
ourselves. Russia
gets access to our technologies, and we are forced to spend even more money
because of the need to stay ahead.
Does this make sense to you? Me neither.
Sarah Palin
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