“The president’s continued adherence to [SDI] constitutes one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft.”
— Senator Joseph Biden on Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, designed to protect against nuclear attacks from nuclear armed enemies like North Korea
“Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the U.S. will add 14 interceptors to the 30 in its missile defense system by fiscal 2017, sending a signal to North Korea after the totalitarian regime threatened nuclear strikes.”
— Bloomberg Business Week on the Obama-Biden Administration decision to belatedly deploy an underdeveloped SDI against a potential North Korean attack
Here’s the dilemma. Does Biden still oppose a MDS (Missile Defense Shield)? Even if he now says he was wrong he will never admit he was betraying this country for decades.
If Biden still opposes a MDS did his sock puppet break away from his handler? I have no solution to the dilemma except to say neither Biden nor Hagel should be trusted with America’s defense. Hagel is just a dumbbell who sees the threat at long last. That does not make him less dumb. While every action Biden took against this country was always deliberate with malice aforethought.
In addition to Biden that other Senate gem, John Kerry, opposed a MDS; especially the one in Alaska. Hussein’s actions show that he, too, is against a MDS:
… Part of the move announced by Hagel would involve reopening a missile field at Fort Greely, Alaska.
In 2011, the Pentagon mothballed Missile Field 1, acting on direction from the Obama administration. Instead of permanently decommissioning it, the Defense Missile Agency placed it in a non-operational state.”
The record combined with Hussein’s people shows that it is not unreasonable to assume the lot of them will continue putting their agenda ahead of America’s security.
Biden’s agenda v. SDI
Said Reagan in announcing his idea:
“We are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.”
Indeed. Which is precisely what infuriated Biden and his liberal allies.
What so offended Biden was that Reagan was making a direct challenge to the liberal sacred cow that was nuclear deterrence doctrine – mutual assured destruction. Or MAD as its appropriate acronym had it. In short, the liberal idea – the conventional wisdom of the day – was “if you kill us you will die too.”
MAD was one of the sneakiest policies sneaks like Biden advocated. Actually it was a non-policy because it stated the obvious. Of course, America would retaliate —— at least it would have back then. I’m not so sure about today and Hussein’s Administration.
As time went by, Biden and his kind did their best to diminish this country’s retaliatory capabilities. The New START Treaty was one such move. Consider New START and North Korea: Did New START do anything to protect this country from North Korea? or did it give courage to all of America’s enemies?
Biden has never been right about anything, but his opposition to a missile defense shield is his crowning achievement because it laid the foundation for America’s destruction militarily. He still opposed SDI after the Soviet Union imploded:
As history now records, SDI became a central player in ending the Cold War. It was SDI that brought the Reykjavik Reagan-Gorbachev summit to an abrupt end as Gorbachev sought to effectively end the program. Reagan would have none of it, and walked out rather than be pressured to stop SDI.
None of this impressed Biden, although he was shown to be demonstrably wrong. Thus his opposition to the program continued through the years.
By the time George W. Bush arrived in the White House to keep SDI moving, Biden was still doing his best to thwart the program.
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The then-Senator immediately raised the Bush administration’s specific insistence that at some point in the future North Korea could have a nuclear missile and threaten to use it against America.
Biden ridiculed the very notion of this possibility. He was nothing if not an avid believer in the sanctity of the arms control priesthood. To push forward SDI was an attack on arms control, said Biden and he would have none of it.
Scorned the future vice president:
The threat has variously been described as a crude missile threat by a rogue state…. The threat has variously been described as a crude missile threat from North Korea, Iraq, or Iran, the risk of an accidental launch of a sophisticated Russian ICBM, or of the danger posed by missiles which might menace U.S. forces deployed on the Korean Peninsula, or some other hot spot around the world….. It seems to me that answering the “why” question on missile defense requires a discussion not only of the threats, but how real they are, how damaging to U.S. interests they are, how immediate they are, and also the alternatives available to meet those threats.…
Have we seriously explored a diplomatic solution to North Korea’s development of and
export of long-range missiles? For if there were no immediate possibility of North Korea having the capacity to launch a long-range missile to strike the United States, there would be no need to initiate a test program that in the minds of some experts is of questionable utility and costs billions of dollars…
Got that?
North Korea should be dealt with by “a diplomatic solution”because the very idea of North Korea attacking the U.S. with a nuclear missile wasn’t “real.”
So it came as no surprise that in 2012 as Vice President Biden, the eternal Senate critic of SDI was presiding with President Obama over requested SDI budget cuts to the tune of $810 million in 2013 with projected cuts of $3.6 billion over the next five years.
Then… then… with all the predictability of the sun rising in the East, the North Korean threat Biden insisted wasn’t there suddenly appears.
Impeaching Biden to eliminate the possibility of him becoming president is out of the question. Nevertheless, Democrats can force him to resign. Except for Hillary Clinton —— no matter who Democrats pick to replace Biden that choice cannot be as dangerous as is leaving Biden one heartbeat away from the presidency.
In addition to dumping Biden —— John Kerry should step down of his own accord since he did as much to put America in harm’s way as did Biden.
Here’s the link to the lengthy article that should be read by every American who does not understand the danger of Biden becoming president:
Joe Biden’s War
By Jeffrey Lord on 3.21.13 @ 6:09AM
The Vice President’s long opposition to missile defense meets the reality of North Korea.
The American Spectator : Joe Biden?s War
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