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April 23 2010 | Politics - Ethics | 0 comments
Dr. Strangelove's Ghost

"The Obama administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare-brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon. The New York Times is reporting that the Defense Department is once again looking to equip intercontinental ballistic missiles with conventional warheads. The missiles could then, in theory, destroy fleeing targets a half a world away — a no-notice “bolt from the blue,” striking in a matter of hours. There’s just one teeny-tiny problem: the launches could very well start World War III." Read more here.

A new day, yet another new change we can't believe in. The Obama administration is considering developing a new bomb to replace nuclear bombs. This is an idea that was finally rejected by the GW Bush administration as too dangerous. Putting aside the folly of thinking one can develop a perfect weapon, there is the question of What about the cost? As that bleeding heart liberal Dwight D. Eisenhower said:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

More from Arianna:
"In fact, the president is on track to spend more on defense, in real dollars, than any other president has in one term of office since WWII. In that time we've had Korea, Vietnam, the massive military buildup under Reagan, and Bush's funded-by-tax-cuts invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but in the most trying economic times since the Depression, Obama's out-gunning them all."

Click here for the rest of Arianna's article and again here for more on this new walk towards the dark side on the part of Mr. Obama.
I guess all the misplaced drones and their killing of innocent people isn't warning enough that developing a super version is not a good idea.
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