Obama's impeachable Offenses(link)

[misha1967]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

I never said that the entire article was not true.It has to do with the START treaty it is just his proposals it does not mean that they are going to happen. Reagan also wanted to eventually abolish or eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons. Reagan and Gorbachev actually came very close to an agreement.

Pull your head out.I have never been the type foolish enough to place my proverbial head into anything in the first place. That defense system only served to make the Russians more likely to produce more missiles the USSR and the CIS treat a missile defense system as a threat because it lowers their odds off striking the US and raises the effect of our missiles the only recourse is to desire to produce more missiles the US would react in the same manner if Russia started making a defense system.

First off, the START treaty is null and void as it was entered into with a nation that no longer exists. Insisting that we should abide to it would be like insisting that we had obligations to the Austria-Hungarian Empire.

As to the second part, you're absolutely correct that SDI was designed to bring the Soviet Union down. It was also designed as a general way of making us more safe, but the primary objective was to force the Soviet Union into an arms race that they had no chance of winning because they couldn't afford it. Their only "defense" was the threat that they could obliterate us with nukes because they knew full well that our technology advantage would wipe out their armies and, absent that, they'd be gone. They had no choice. They could either try to outspend us or lose from financial exhaustion. A true lose-lose scenario if ever there was one. And it brought them down without a shot being fired.

Pure genius.

Of course, now that we've managed to develop a version of SDI that actually works as opposed to the "maybe" of the original plan, we have a HUGE advantage, particularly in today's world where nuclear delivery isn't reserved to superpowers. And we'd be bloody IDIOTS to not maintain that advantage. Which is why Obama is a traitor in that respect, because he's deliberately trying to weaken us globally, no matter what his "good intentions" might be.

The only way to avoid war altogether is to make sure that your enemies know that they don't stand a chance in hell of winning one against you. That's not "aggressive", that's just common sense.