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Barack Obama Strangelove Backing A Weapon Too Crazy For Bush/Cheney
2010-04-23
Some key points from the post, by Tom Maguire
My cynical guess - Obama is backing this now in preference to maintaining a nuclear stockpile; later, the obvious problems with this weapons system will become obvious to him.

This is bait and switch by Obama - a guy who couldn't back a missile defense system because it is too destabilizing will never back this, not too mention that his base will howl, but it may be expedient right now to pretend to be a tough guy.
And in the comments:
The larger point is the usual Obama scam: Install poison pills in programs he does not like, but at the same time back a flawed "even better" idea so as to dodge the political pain. We see it everywhere: dropping the missles in Poland etc for a "cheaper faster more relaible alternative" that somehow escaped that idiot Bush. Or: let's install a new and better insurance overlay to healthcare so existing arrangements can be abrogated, know full well that the new plan will crash and burn soon so he can get the single payer plan he wanted all along.

This story is just another one of those.

So far the muddle and the media let him get away with it.
Dhimmicratic standard policy is always to endorse the next, unproven weapons system and disparage the currently being developed system as unproven, impractical, destabilizing or too expensive (since we need to spend more on free health care). When the next pie-in-the-sky system comes to the point of being developed, repeat the cycle.
Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain

#8  WAFF > {NYT] US FACES CHOICE ON NEW WEAPONS FOR FAST STRIKES.

* SAME > OBAMA REVIVES RUMSFIELD MISSLE SCHEME, RISKS NUCLEAR WAR [says Russia].

* TOPIX > AIR FORCE LAUNCHES HYPERSONIC GLIDER OVER PACIFIC [13,000-mph over 4000 miles to crash into the Marshall Islands test range].

Cold War AFBS like GUAM's Andersen AFB [joint use wid USMC from Okinawa] are safe from the BRACS + other for a little while.

2018-2020 = US GMD-TMD is expected to mostly be in place around the World???

OTOH WMF > BY 2020 US MAY NO LONGER BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY DEFEND TAIWAN AGZ CHINA [unless the USA = US Navy is willing to risk or accept incurr massive or prohibitive levels of AREA, REGIONAL mil casualties at the hands of Chin's modern military systems forecasted to be oper at that time].

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA'S NAVAL POWER TO SAIL IN WATERS THE US DOMINATES. + JAPAN LEERY/WARY OF CHINA'S NAVAL ASCENDANCY.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-04-23 23:33  

#7  Pink. Even on a Mac.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-04-23 21:05  

#6  You really need a Mac with a color calibrated monitor, it really brings out the subtle differences between salmon and pink.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-04-23 19:56  

#5  Probably so, Frank. Come on over to the Club for a complimentary drink and I'm sure it will start to look salmon. ;-)
Posted by: lotp   2010-04-23 19:52  

#4  must be my monitor(s)
Posted by: Frank G   2010-04-23 19:46  

#3  looks like pink
Posted by: Frank G   2010-04-23 19:45  

#2  The salmon hilite is indeed Dr. Steve, Snowy Thing. Not, not, not!!!111!!@! pink. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-04-23 18:06  

#1  That's Dr. Steve, right?

Anyway, you can see that in progress with the F-35 program. It's gone from the greatest thing since sliced bread to a massively expensive and impractical boondoggle more or less instantly since the cancellation of the F-22.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-04-23 12:30  

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