Obama Is Enabling Nuclear Breakout

By James Lewis,American Thinker

 Obama is the new appeaser

Jimmy Carter didn’t want to be known as the Ayatollah Appeaser,but that’s how history has him chalked up. Bill Clinton played dumb about the 1994 World Trade Center bombing,actually blocking the flow of foreign intelligence between Justice and the CIA,and thereby enabled 9/11/01 —the second al-Qaeda attack on Manhattan in seven years. The liberal media are still in shrill denial of those facts,but history will not forget their failures. Historians will ask over and over why yet another feckless Democrat was elected in 2008. How could Americans be so blind to the circling jackals of this world?

Now Obama seems intent on reversing the Cold War and letting nuclear proliferation explode. In Congress,the Democrats are committing mass suicide for him. FDR gave us the New Deal,and Obama is giving us the Raw Deal.

But FDR presided over the bloodiest war for America since the Civil War. He didn’t want to be a war president,but when Pearl Harbor came,he did not deceive himself the way the Left has deceived itself since 9/11. Pearl Harbor was a plain act of war,and Americans in 1944 got that instantly. Four years later,Harry Truman didn’t plan to begin the Cold War against Communist aggression with a defensive war in Korea. But that’s how it turned out. "Events,my dear boy,"said Harold McMillan. Events decide how presidents will look to history.

Obama is now set to be the biggest loser of the last sixty years —the man who let nuclear weapons explode out of control by fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the threat. The implications for the future are unpredictable,but just as World War II was more consequential than the New Deal,there is nothing an American president can do that is more important that his national security actions. When —not if —nuclear proliferation runs out of control,it won’t look like the Cold War,when only two superpowers had usable missiles and weapons,and when,after Stalin died,both sides acted fairly rationally.

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