Disarming the policeman

Mr Barack Hussein Obama goes into full Jimmy Carter mode with changes in United States nuclear arms policies guaranteed to please the barbarians while terrifying every friend and ally the Americans have. It is surely a mark of either utter brilliance or thundering incompetence to draught a nuclear policy that simultaneously reduces clarity and ambiguity, yet relies on a deal that the Russians are willing to tear up at the drop of a hat.

The sheer narcissism of Mr Obama's nuclear policy staggering. If he imagines that shrinking the American arsenal regardless of circumstances and making it less reliable through lack of development will be seen as anything other than a sign of weakness, that promising not to retaliate with the full might of America's arsenal against chemical and biological attacks will make the Free World more secure, or that this sort of Clement Attlee-style moral posturing will impress anyone who isn't staring out of Mr Obama's shaving mirror, then he is barking mad.

I'm all for nuclear arms control–more so than Mr Obama or anyone at CND ever could be. The only difference is that my plan would be to disarm the tyrants and leave the democracies with enough weapons to turn any would-be Napoleon's lands into a sea of glass. As for Mr Obama's ideal world without nuclear arms, Ares has some pictures of it. They're rather familiar.


Update: “Jimmy-Cartesian”.

In the Obama narrative, America has been a reckless source of trouble for the world because of its arrogant interventionism. Obama’s solution, in the words of Charles Hill, a professor at Yale, is the following: “Close out the wars, disengage, and distance ourselves in order to carry out the real objective: the achievement of a European-style welfare state. Just as Reagan downsized government by starving it through budget cuts, Obama will downsize the military-industrial complex by directing so much money into health care, environ-o-care, etc., that we, like the Europeans, will have no funds available to maintain world power. This will gain the confidence of those regimes adversarial to us as they recognize we will no longer be a threat to them and that we will acquiesce in their maintenance of power over their people.” All will be well with the world.

I still maintain that it's either that, or that he hasn't a clue about what he's doing, or both.

Update: Iran gives Mr Obama the bird.