Brian T. Kennedy, President of the Claremont Institute, and who has also written for such as the National Review, Wall Street Journal, and Investor's Business Daily. This article was published in the Newsletter, IMPRIMIS. by Hillsdale College. Let's get to it. You've read the Koran Suras to set up your base for understanding one of America's BIGGEST PROBLEM ahead.)




Ah Yes, and here it is mid-week again, and the clouds keep getting darker, but so help me, despite what still seems like public apathy, I think underneath it all, there is a growing antipathy toward this administration, and somewhere along the months ahead, this will turn into full blown action to correct this current trend towards economic disaster. Say, along about Nov. 4, 2012....   Now let's complete my blog on "Not just the economy, stupid".


My last blog finished making reference to our winning the Cold War, and of Russian (at that time) government's brutally repressive domestic policies and their strengthened alliances with America's enemies. Then suggesting that our Conservatives had overdone the winning..... We go on.....


       Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that our policy toward Russia has been exceedingly foolish.   For the past two decades we have paid the Russians to dismantle nuclear warheads they would have dismantled anyway, while they have used those resources to modernize their ballistic missiles.   On our part, we have not even tested a nuclear warhead since 1992 -- which is to say that we aren't certain they work anymore.   Nor have we maintained any tactical nuclear weapons..   Nor, to repeat, have we built the missile defense system first proposed by President Reagan.

       Just last month, with bipartisan backing from members of the foreign policy establishment, the Senate ratified the New Start Treaty, which will further reduce our nuclear arsenal and will almost certainly cause further delays in building missile defenses -- and this with a nation that engages in massive deception against us, supports our enemies, and builds ever more advanced nuclear weapons.

       At the heart of America's strategic defense policy today is the idea of launching a retaliatory nuclear against whatever nuclear power attacks us.   But absent reliable confidence in the lethality of forces, such a deterrent is meaningless.   In this light, deliberatin about the need for a robust modernization program, rather than arms reductions through New Start, would have been a better way for Congress to spend the days leading up to Christmas -- which is to say, it would have been supportive of our strategic defense policy, rather than undercutting it.

       But what about that stretegic policy?   Some of  New Start's supporters argued that reducing rather than modernizing our nuclear arsenal places us on the moral high ground in our dealings with other nations.   But can any government claim to occupy the moral high ground when it willingly, knowingly, and purposely keeps its people nakedly vulnerable to nuclear missiles??

       The Russians understand well the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the American defense establishment, and have carefully orchestrated things for two decades so that we remain preoccupied with threats of Nort Korean and now Iranian ballistic missiles.   We spend our resources developing modest defense systems to deal, albeit inadequately, with these so-called rogue states, and meanwhile forego addressing the more serious threat from Russia and China, both of which are modernizing their forces.  

      Who is to say that there will never come a time when the destruction or nuclear blackmail of the U.S. will be in the interest of the Russians or the Chinese??   Do we imagine that respect for human life  or human rights will stop these brutal tyrannies from acting on such a determination.?

      If I (author) sound pessimistic, I don't mean to.   Whatever kind of self-deception gripped the architects of our current defense policies, the American people have proved capable of forcing a change in direction when they learn the facts.   Americans do not wish to be subjected to Sharia law, owe large sums of money to the Chinese, or be kept vulnerable to nuclear missiles.   Having responded resoundingly to the economic and constitutional crisis represented by Obamacare, it is now time for us to remind our representatives of the constitutional requirement to provide for a common defense  -- in the TRUE sense of the word.    Finis

Thanks all for stopping by and getting enlightened on a serious subject, if you didn't already realize it.  You no doubt are aware of rising prices in every direction that affects the pocketbook or purse, so, are you prepared for it to get worse?Or as has so often been said,  "Can't hurt".     Cheers     CJ